Luxor Review

This is a good Zuma clone, but most players will probably prefer the original.

Luxor is basically an Egyptian-themed Zuma/Arkanoid hybrid that appears to have been designed for more action-oriented players. You still shoot colored balls at lines of other balls to destroy them (via color-matching) before they reach your pyramid. However, in Luxor's case, your ball turret can move along the bottom of the screen like an Arkanoid paddle, and all of the action takes place above you. Although Luxor's a fun game with a nice pyramids-and-hieroglyphs theme, its moving turret keeps aiming from being as intuitive as it is in Zuma, and it doesn't make many other meaningful additions to the original. If you've beaten Zuma back-to-front and are looking for a similar challenge, Luxor's a safe bet... But new players should start with Zuma's stone frog, rather than Luxor's scarab.

The Good

  • Nice Zuma clone
  • New power-ups
  • Egyptian theme done well

The Bad

  • Harder to aim
  • Not very original

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