Puzzle Quest: Galactrix E3 Preview

Infinite Interactive’s Puzzle Quest: Galactrix is the subject of yet another E3 preview, and this time it’s over at GameSpot.

Like the original Puzzle Quest, Galactrix will have a story mode. However, the developer isn’t ready to spill the beans on it just yet. We do know that the game takes place some 20,000 years in the future where outer space is no longer the great unknown and different alien species are a common sight, and by the looks of it, a problem. The game we played in Quick Battle mode was against one such alien.

Gameplay feels both familiar and new. The square playfield is now circular, but it’s still filled with multi-colored (now hexagonal) pieces that you move together to form like-colored rows of three or more. Rather than new tiles coming up from the bottom to replace cleared tiles, they now come from all sides of the playfield. The direction is determined by how you move your tile when forming a row. If you move it from left to right, the new pieces come from the left. If you move diagonally from the upper-right to the lower left, they’ll come from the top right. You’re not likely to be concerned with this nuance at first, but once you become more accustomed to how tiles move, you’ll realize that you’re now able to chain up to seven tiles together, which will give you a huge advantage over your opponent.