Following on from the success of Jewel Match, PurpleHills has now released Around the World in 80 Days, its latest hit Match 3 game. This will take you back to the exciting times of exploration and discovery in the late 19th century. Prepare yourself for a spectacular puzzle adventure on land, on sea and in the air. Accompany the English daredevil Phileas Fogg and his faithful servant Passepartout across 5 continents, through England, France, Japan, USA, India and distant China. Solve puzzles and collect objects, such as a compass, to help you continue the journey and win the bold wager, while constantly up against the clock.
Bonus items destroy any obstacles. Based on one of the most captivating stories in literary history, Jules Verne’s adventure novel “Around the World in Eighty Days”, there are more than 80 challenging levels for you to tackle on different continents. Around the World in 80 Days for Nintendo DS is no adventure game in the traditional sense, but combines the popular Match 3 genre with an exciting story. And as we have come to expect of PurpleHills, once again they have applied a simple, yet intriguing game principle. Shift around adjoining game tiles to form groups of three or more rows of the same color. The clock shows you how much time you still have left to complete the level. Move all the objects to be collected to the bottom of the gameplay area by removing the game tiles below. However, watch out for the walls, blocks of ice and hidden game tiles that will make life very difficult for you.
Three exciting multiplayer modes
Earn yourself some important tools. Around the World in 80 Days is also the first game of its kind to offer three exciting multiplayer modes via Wifi. This means that you can play and tackle together the levels that are already free, or play against each other and drive your opponent mad using nasty extras, such as ice blocks or chains. Or why not be the quickest to complete a level?
- More than 80 levels of addictive combination fun, where you can travel across continents, through England, France, China, India, Japan and USA
- Multiplayer mode: Cooperative, Head-to-Head, Time (multi-map game)
- Stunning background graphics, offering the perfect distraction every now and then
- Meticulously animated details, such as the ticking clock, the tiles
- Extra journey with a higher level of difficulty after completing the whole game
- Upright mode for a relaxed gaming experience (suitable for both right- and left-handers)
- Revolving 3D globe for selecting levels
- Supports DS touchscreen and microphone features (also suitable for Nintendo DSi)
- User-friendly structure for novices, offering plenty of helpful tips
- Fantastic bonus items like a mallet, a Tesla device, to name but a few
This year's edition of the winter sports simulation was completely reworked in order to use the next gen consoles' functions to their greatest advantage. Apart from the attractive sports such as boarder cross, ski flying, Alpine skiing, free ride skiing, short-track speed skating, figure skating, bobsledding, and biathlon, players of RTL Winter Sports 2010 also have a complex career mode to look forward to. In the story-based career mode, players can invest any experience points they collect in improved skills and equipment for their characters, and work their way up from beginners to world-class athletes. All of this takes place within a gripping story in which the player takes part in 16 competitions against four national teams. As an added challenge, one of those teams is the player's ultimate rival, and particularly hard to beat. RTL Winter Sports 2010 also provides "casual" entertainment: In single discipline mode, players get to take part in the event of their choice in order to hone their skills in that discipline. Veterans also get their money's worth in RTL Winter Sports 2010. The extended trick system for the disciplines of boarder cross and free ride skiing provides the ultimate challenge for experts. RTL Winter Sports 2010 will also thrill fans of multiplayer games. Up to four friends may compete for the top position in the championship rankings - there can be only one champion, after all. Eight unique sports disciplines and full online support for all platforms for the first time ever, make for hours of gaming fun. The online mode "fair play" launches an event where each participant controls an equally skilled athlete, thus showing the players' real strengths and weaknesses in every discipline. On the other hand, the players' individually trained avatars get to compare their abilities in the online "tough mode".
- Eight unique and distinct sports: boardercross, freestyle skiing, downhill skiing, ski jumping, short-track speed skating, biathlon, bobsledding, and figure skating
- Five game modes: career, cup, single course, campaign, multiplayer
- Four difficulty levels: easy, normal, hard, extreme
- Story-based career mode with role-playing elements, special skills, and upgrades
- Campaign with 44 exciting challenges
- Multiplayer: online and split-screen modes (up to 4 players)
- Online mode with a world-wide ranking system
- Extended trick system for boardercross and freestyle skiing