Mac Games – reviews and game downloads

Hotshot Jessica Braxen walked away from her 6 figure advertising executive position to follow her diving passion. In order to sustain her life style she plans to search for shipwrecks and treasure. You are to help her find riches and maps by playing match games.

You must match 3 or more like items to destroy them. In addition you need to bring pieces of a puzzle, diver and a treasure chest to the bottom of the game board. After completing that task the level is over. In between the levels there is an intense story developing with ancient people who lost their treasure in the sea, but who should Jessica believe? There are conflicting stories among the people she is encountering.

The match game is your usual swap pieces to match 3 or more items play, but this one is enjoyable and fun to play. The underwater sound effects were good and helped enhance the deep sea diving aspect of the game. Match items (crabs, fish, octopuses, black sea anemones, etc) reminded me of the Chuzzle characters with the expressive eyes. The sound is also similar and maybe that’s why I liked this game. The only part I could do without was the story, but overall this is a good game.

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When you don’t need a story in a match 3 play, you go to Mac game Swap from Phelios. It is a basic match game with many, many options to change the look of the board.

The play is to swap 2 items to match 3 or more objects of the same thing in a row vertically or horizontally. Swap has a lot of items to select from and many background or skin scenes to change. Some of the tokens or icons are gems, flags, hearts, shapes and rounds. The backgrounds are subtle but I think that’s best because if the background scene is too busy, it will take away from the play. Some of the skins are called Simply Pink, Cool Blue, Classic, For Her, For Him, Fresh Green and Flower Power.

There are 4 games to play: Rush you have 60 seconds to beat the high score, Classic gives you 5 minutes, Million you play until you reach that score and Relax is untimed. There are 4 modes of play you can choose from: Crazy, Easy, Normal and Hard. You select the level you are most comfortable.

The powerups are the cross where when the tokens are swapped will explode the items across horizontally and vertically. The lightning bolt will destroy a row or column whichever way it is facing. The bomb will blow up a few of the surrounding tokens.

In addition to all these choices, you can also design your own token sets and play them on Swap.

The playability of Swap is endless. With so many options, you can change your play in how it looks and how it plays. You will enjoy this game if you are a match 3 fan and like good, fast paced music. Take a challenge or relax and have fun in this versatile match 3 game. I give it a 4 out of 5 for an enjoyable play.

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Bust-a-Move has nothing on Luxor Amun Rising. Its fantastic continuous play will keep you captivated for a long time. That is if your hand, eye coordination is intact enough to shoot at the oncoming coils of colorful orbs.

The play is exactly like the other Luxor games with you shooting an orb at the snaking rows of balls. You shoot your sphere at a group of 2 or more like colored orbs to destroy and extinguish them from the row of balls before they wind quickly into the pyramid. In addition to avoiding the unthinkable, you must catch gems for points and symbols to activate power-ups. You can also right click to swap out your current ball for the next one if it is advantageous.

Speed and accuracy is the name of the game so you need to flex your nimble hands to ready them for the challenge of this shooter arcade Mac game. Don’t let the balls snake into the pyramid or it’s all over. Have a good time with Luxor: Amun Rising or any of the Luxor products. They are all good.

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