Puzzle Quest 2 Multiplayer Preview

IGN brings us some quick impressions of Puzzle Quest 2’s multiplayer modes, courtesy of a pre-E3 build that they were able to get their hands on yesterday.

The biggest addition to the head-to-head two-player Puzzle Quest battles is Tournament Mode. Here you don’t use the fighter you’ve developed in your single-player game. Instead, you choose four monsters from the complete roster of creatures in Puzzle Quest 2. Tournament Mode unfolds in rounds: once a monster is defeated, the next monster from that player steps up to the plate. The monster that survived the previous round stays in play but its health isn’t regenerated and all of its spells and mana are reset. The first player to obliterate all four of the opponent’s monsters is the victor.

You can either handpick each of your four monsters or let the game choose them for you randomly (there are over 100 in the cast). The rounds are tiered so that each new monster is more powerful than the last.