Luxor 2

The game challenges the user to eliminate colored magical spheres by causing three or more spheres of the same color to collide. Players do this primarily by shooting additional spheres from a winged scarab which they guide back and forth along the bottom of the screen. When spheres are eliminated, adjacent spheres which now form a segment of three or more or the same color will also explode in a chain reaction.

During gameplay, the on-screen spheres continuously move forward, pushed by additional small scarabs. If any sphere reaches the player's pyramid, he or she loses a life and is forced to restart the stage. If the player succeeds in eliminating a certain number of spheres without this occurring, new spheres cease to arrive and the level can be completed by removing those which remain.

There are a total of 88 rounds of increasing difficulty, plus 13 bonus rounds which the player can play through. In "Story mode", the player earns titles/rankings as he or she progresses through the various levels. Multiple difficulty settings are available as well, with play at higher settings yielding higher scores.

In general, 100 points are awarded for each sphere destroyed. The simple destruction of three spheres thus earns 300 points, four spheres 400, etc. However, if you arrange things such that you destroy three spheres which bring together three more spheres, the second set of spheres has a 2X multiplier. With cleverness, you can arrange things such that you have several chain reactions in a row with linearly increasing multipliers at every stage of the chain reaction.

At the end of every round (and at times during the round) jewels, rings, and coins are freed. Every stage has coins, and coins have a value of 250 points at all stages of game play (One collects coins less for their value than because every 30 coins earns an extra life.) In contrast to the behavior of coins, jewel and ring values increase in a simple pattern as play progresses.[2] Every stage has two types of jewel and one type of ring. Below are the listed the jewels and rings in the first five stages of play:

The title includes between 13 and 15 different power-ups which can be collected during play. These are earned by successfully setting off three or more explosions in a row. When this occurs, a random power-up falls down towards the player's winged scarab, but is only actually collected if the player correctly positions the scarab to catch it. Once a power-up is collected, it either has an immediate effect, or modifies the next sphere which the player will launch, depending on type. Unique or new power-ups include:

• Color Cloud - Causes a cloud effect which changes the color of all spheres it envelopes to the matching color.
• Lightning Storm - Causes a series of ten lightning blasts to strike and randomly eliminate spheres.
• Net- collects falling objects all across the playfield.
• Pharaoh's Dagger - Changes the player's "next sphere" into a dagger which can be used to destroy any spheres it hits for a period of time.

Additional power-ups are modeled after those from existing games, such as one which slows down the movement of the spheres, and one which causes the spheres to move backward for a short while.

In the Options menu, press the Page Up and Page Down at the same to activate the cheat mode. A new button, "Cheats", will appear. It will be valid only to this specific profile. Cheat mode makes all stages and levels of game play accessible.[3]

Luxor 2
Developer(s)	MumboJumbo
Publisher(s)	MumboJumbo
Series	Luxor
Platform(s)	macOS Microsoft Windows Nintendo DS PlayStation 2 Wii
Genre(s)	Puzzle video game
Mode(s)	Single-player

Luxor: Pharaoh's Challenge is a remake of Luxor 2 for the Nintendo DS, Wii, PlayStation Portable, and PlayStation 2. released on November 20, 2007 for PS2, December 18, 2007 for both PSP and DS, and January 15, 2008 for Wii. Unlike the original Luxor 2, the remake introduces blessings to help the player on his or her journey to the Temple of Set. The graphics are different on every platform.