It comes with its own set of random events and temporary upgrades, and people like how these upgrades affect the gameplay. The Luxor games offer a twist on this type of colour-to-colour game. The company that designed the game has made sequels because people like the angle they took and the angles they have taken in later games. The sounds made as you play the game are a little dramatic, but it is nice to hear the effect you are having, such as explosions and cracking sounds when you match balls of the same colour. You do feel as if you are playing a well-developed game as opposed to an indie app you downloaded whilst you were bored. The interface is smooth and has a very rounded feel to it. The soundtrack has an Egyptian feel without it getting too ethnic. It is your basic colour-to-colour mechanic. It contains your store of collared balls to fire at the stream of target balls as they move. You have to use your fingers to move the pad at the bottom. With the casual mode there is no scoring bonus, with the normal mode there is a 1.5x scoring bonus, and with the expert mode there is a 2x scoring bonus. You then pick from the casual, normal and expert mode. Pick from the adventure mode, survival mode and practice mode. You are then given a few options such as “Achievements”, “Options”, “Change Profile”, “High Scores”, “How to Play”, “More Games” and “Start”. Start the game by creating your profile by entering the name you wish to be called. You start at a commoner and have to choose your path.

You start as a farm hand and have to work your way up to a pharaoh. As you progress through the levels, you are given a better position in the Egyptian community. You lose if too many balls are allowed to fall off screen. The aim of the game is to remove all the balls from the screen. Get the colours to match up and they are removed. A stream of balls moves along a set path and you have to fire similar collared balls at the stream. Luxor is another take on the classic colour-to-colour ball firing game.

A colour-to-colour ball firing game with an Egyptian theme.

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