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2007 · MumboJumbo · Puzzle

Luxor 3

Nintendo console exclusive

A brave young Pharaoh, killed prematurely by a fierce sandstorm and embodied by the gods as a skillful scarab, must battle the powerful god of Chaos, Set, to free the essences of other Egyptian gods contained within colorful magical spheres.

Released: 30 October 2007
Platforms: Wii Windows macOS
Genres: Puzzle
Developers: MumboJumbo
Publishers: MumboJumbo
Series: Luxor
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: Bird view / Isometric
Themes: Action
Country: United States
Age ratings: ESRB E
Languages: English
Time to beat: 7hmain story11hcompletionist

About

Luxor 3 is an action-puzzle computer game released by MumboJumbo and a sequel to Luxor and Luxor 2. As with the other Luxor games, it maintains an Egyptian theme and revolves around Egyptian deities, involving a main gameplay goal of matching groups of three or more like-colored spheres to remove them from a train of said spheres rolling down a defined path, and preventing the spheres from entering a pyramid at the end of said path.

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The game remains similar to that in previous editions of Luxor: the main objective is to remove spheres of many different colors (ranging from four to nine different colors) from a track of spheres before they enter the pyramid at the end of a track. The lines of colored spheres are held by a scarab at the back end, and a set number of these sets must be cleared.

Luxor 3 features canopic jars that show up in the middle of the game: they will show up multiple times in each level until it is collected by being shot at by a sphere. Collecting all of these in the first four classic mode levels of each stage will unlock a bonus level at the end of the stage. After a jar is collected in a level or if all four jars are collected for a stage, then the remainder of the level or stage, respectively, will have golden scarabs show up to be exploded as with the jars. The golden scarabs drop from three to six ankh coins depending on the game's difficulty level (Easy, Medium, Hard, Insane).