This single-player or multi-player experience expands upon the gameplay of the two original Columns titles by giving players some extra attacks to spring on their opponents during gameplay. As in the original Columns, jewels fall into a bin and you have to twist and manipulate them to form matches of three or more in a vertical, horizontal or diagonal line to keep the jewels from stacking up and reaching the top.
In Columns III, now you can get special magical jewels that can do things like raising your opponent's crush bar or lowering yours, adding an extra element of strategy to the game. This is a great game to play with friends, so download today and jump into the action!
Tue, 05 Feb 2008 by Darren Calvert
1. KeeperBvK
05 Oct 2007, 13:40 BST
Nice addition. Nothing to get too excited about, but nice nonetheless.
2. deggs
09 Nov 2007, 03:58 GMT
to be honest, i loved the first one and the magic jewelry ripoff version. but the formula seemed perfected at that. i am a little curious though but not enough to buy. that said, the first one is amazing and is avaible in the sega genesis collection that most of us have already...
3. TheNintendoBoy
04 Dec 2007, 16:57 GMT
Great puzzler with 5-player mode and new gameplay elements that make it more intense.
4. Edwin
02 Feb 2008, 03:25 GMT
This is coming on Monday.
5. ChocoDK
04 Feb 2008, 04:45 GMT
Wow both games that came this week make up a total of 3 stars thats sad. And what weird box art for the game. But a puzzle game could've been fun if it was good but not worth the money.
6. Lwaad
04 Feb 2008, 19:06 GMT
I loved this game. It was a great multiplayer game back in the day. The competitive matchups were always good, and the music, sound effects, and colors always made me feel a little trippy.
7. President_Leever
07 Feb 2008, 22:15 GMT
"The once simple gameplay is complicated with the use of Magic jewels which can remove all colours from your well or raise your opponents crush bar. In addition to this there are also Magic jewels which cause disruption to your opponent when destroyed. It can flip their controls, disable their shuffling or turn their jewels black and white so matches are more difficult to perform."
These are all positives, seeing as the original game got extremely boring in just a short while and was little more than a Tetris ripoff. You guys need to try this out in it's full multiplayer glory, then write a new, enlightened review where you praise the game in interesting new ways. There's nothing wrong with gearing a game towards multiiplayer, especially not in a genre that was made for it.
8. marktheshark
09 Feb 2008, 01:06 GMT
I'm quite dissapointed with this review I must say, the reviewer probably hasn't even tried multiplayer yet.
9. Damo
26 Feb 2008, 14:05 GMT
President/Mark - The changes made to gameplay result in a less pleasing experience, in our opinion. Just like adding needless gameplay features to Tetris, complicating Columns strikes us as a bit pointless and the game loses some of its purity as a result.
And we tried the multplayer mode - to death.
10. Brownie
03 May 2008, 01:17 BST
Is this the only release in the US again this week!?!
11. LordJamak
11 Aug 2008, 01:06 BST
Question: We have Columns and Columns 3... what happened to Columns 2. Just curious. Did it exist?
12. Dazza
11 Aug 2008, 08:20 BST
Columns II was an arcade game only, it never saw a home conversion. It's full title is Columns II: The Voyage Through Time.
13. PuppetMasterKuruku
02 Sep 2008, 21:01 BST
I had very fond memories of renting this. Unfortunately, I played it in an emulator when this came to VC and found out I just don't like it at all anymore.
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