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Zombies in Hollywood

Many of you by now may have heard of or even experienced the newest hit from Valve, Left-4-Dead. Hitting shelves this past December, Left-4-Dead has had plenty of time to build up its reputation and fan base as this multiplayer shooter continues to grow in popularity. The attraction of Left-4-Dead is simply, zombies…lots of them. The game takes place two weeks after the onset of your standard Hollywood zombie apocalypse. In fact, the Hollywood theme plays a major part in Left-4-Dead (L4D) since each of the four playable campaigns is set up theatrically as a movie. You play as one of four survivors (the cast) fighting your way though the ruined, zombie-infested city as you race towards your last chance to an evacuation site. The reason why this unidentified Pennsylvania city now lays in ruins has been left up to the imagination of the player. The story begins with the four survivors, Bill, Luis, Francis and Zoey trying to make their way from safe room to safe room in an attempt to get to the designated evacuation point in one piece.

It's been a few years since Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords from D3 Publisher seemingly came from nowhere to mix Bejeweled puzzle gameplay with a fantasy RPG. Since then, we've seen quite a few ports, and it was reasonable to assume that we'd get a direct sequel. But D3 has really thrown gamers for a loop with their sequel, Puzzle Quest: Galactrix. Now, it's a sci-fi based game where you'll travel the galaxy and try to save it, one star system at a time, and do more gem-based switching to defeat opponents.

But the first thing any Puzzle Quest veteran will notice is that the tiles are now six-sided and play on a circular board. This adds plenty of depth to the choices you'll get to make, but it also adds a level of complexity that you'll have to wrap your brain around in order to start winning. And to take it further, depending on the gems you swap to make your line of three or more, you can control which of the six directions gems can come in from.