The first time I played “this” game, the name was associated with “Jewels.” The board was full of various gems on squares similar to the look of a chessboard. The rubies and emeralds sparkle as you move a stone to make rows of three like jewels. When three are in sequence, they vanish and the surrounding gems move into the empty space in the same manner that a row is cleared in a hardy game of Tetris. It is, in essence, a take-off of the legendary masterpiece as the goal is to clear the board by strategy and making the maximum bang for your moves. Whereas other games like this used jewels and such articles, this one is set against the backdrop of Ancient Egypt — with History lessons along the way (using historical factoids while new levels load). The intention is to increase the reward for clearing a board — as doing so progresses you further into the various lands depicted, here. Did you know that Tennessee isn’t the only place to find a city called Memphis? Sure — you can also make your way through other points on the map such as Nebuchadnezzar, Babylon and Hurghada. Keeping in the theme, the pieces you have to shuffle about resemble ancient relics from that area.
MINIMUM
Windows 98/2000/ME/XP
Pentium III or AMD Athlon 800MHz Processor
256MB RAM
2GB Hard Disk Space
Nvidia TNT2, GeForce 1, 2 or 3, ATI Radeon 7000, 7200, 7500 or 8500, or Matrox G450 Video Card
DirectX Compatible Sound Card
DirectX 9
MAXIMUM
Windows 7/Vista (32 or 64 bit)
Intel i7 Quad Core 2.8Ghz or AMD equivalent
3GB System RAM (High)
30 GB Hard dDisk Space
nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX / ATI Radeon HD4850 Video Card
Direct X 9.0 compatible supporting Dolby Digital Live
DirectX 9.0 - DirectX 11
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