Comments on: Review: Luxor AR– Beautiful game, really bad software

By: Ahruman

Ahruman — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:01:39 +0000

There’s a very similar game called Alantis, which seemed to come out at almost the same time. I’m not sure of the releationship between them, or whether Atlantis is better-behaved.

http://www.bigfishgames.com/mac/atlantisarcade/index.html

bigfishgames.com also offers Luxor 2 for the PC. Hmm.

By: bbum

bbum — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 22:58:33 +0000

Neat! Same theme, but very different details. The ball shooter in Zuma is fixed on screen, but spins. Luxor’s is more breakout like, moving back and forth at the bottom of the screen and shooting straight up. The level layout of the two seem to be slightly different in design, as a result — Luxor has one or two tracks with multiple chains per track whereas zuma appears to have up to several tracks with continuous ball chains on each.

Luxor has 80+ levels, but many of them have the same layout and graphics, but slightly different parameters of play. Zuma appears to have 20 levels, but each level is completely unique.

I might have to get zuma just to check it out.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 22:55:09 +0000

This game would appear to be the same as Zuma by PopCap, the one available for iPods. It's pretty addictive and I believe is also available for desktop use.

By: Michael Rawdon

Michael Rawdon — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:59:30 +0000

This is why I always work as a non-administrative user on Mac OS X: So I can complain loudly when something unreasonably requires administrative privileges to run.