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Needless to say, it all gets very familiar very quickly, but somehow that's not a problem in a game where you'll be pushed to the limits. Other tricks present themselves on occasion, such as squeezing shots through tiny gaps for a bonus, or snatching coins for a score bonus - skillshots which all help towards stalling the ball supply.

As well as granting you incredibly useful face-saving powers such as the Backwards Ball, you'll also be able to temporarily stall the onslaught, or even cause mass explosions that give you breathing space just when you need it. In addition, enemy balls regularly change in appearance, giving you the opportunity to take advantage of the power-ups. Once full, the floodgates dry up, no more balls appear to replace the old ones, and you can go about mopping up the remainder. Matching up chains one after the other gains you a points bonus, and the more you can eliminate in succession, the quicker you'll fill up the points bar. The trick (if there is one) is to be quick and be deadly. Backwards frog Sometimes you're fending off two seperate onslaughts at the same time. If you consistently foul up, the music enters its 'dance of death' mode, the ball bonanza reaches your gaping maw, you lose a life, you scream blue murder, and you start that stage from scratch. But unlike other ball-popping extravaganzas, the ever-spiralling throng are on the move, thus making it harder to line-up a shot, and increasing the risk of missing the mark entirely. Much like the other ball-poppers we know and love, the rule of three applies, so you must attempt to fire your ball at two or more balls of the same colour to destroy them. You control the aforementioned frog idol, a passive aggressive little fellow who sits in the middle of the screen with the ability to rotate 360 degrees and spit balls at the oncoming evil horde. Zuma's certainly no slouch, though, and that's where your problems start. We are the Bisto kids, and this is the smell of home-cooked gaming that we'll follow to the end of time. And then, unexpectedly, six hours later you're hauling yourself off to bed with spiralling eyes and humming that tune forever.īut as anyone who has ever sat playing through dozens of Bust-A-Move levels in one sitting, it's got that devilishly moreish appeal that seems to follow all good puzzle games. Sure, it's in high definition, but it looks simple, dated, low budget and certainly nothing to get excited about.

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As with almost everything available for download on the 360, it doesn't look anything worth bothering with from the outset. Zuma Deluxe is another one of those games you'll probably be familiar with from the previous Live Arcade, or from the shareware scene it originated from. In case we hadn't rammed home the point enough lately, Xbox Live Arcade on 360 is just about the most instantly entertaining way to get your kicks on a home console these days, and thanks to the complete lack of any definable storylines or premise, we get to completely make them up off the top of our heads. It's satisfying in the knowledge that however many hundreds pour through the defenceless temple doors, this ball-spitting frog idol can send them packing back from whence they came. But a wise old frog knows the weaknesses of the nefarious spherical menace you could call it a good old fashioned trichotomy: two's company, three's a crowd. Not content with raining down from the skies above in Bust-A-Move, these evil, merciless, relentless coloured balls are now intent on invading and terrorising the confines of the musty, once-deserted chambers of these eerie old shrines. Abandon all hope of having normal dreams for several days. Yes folks, you are now entering ball-bursting territory.

We're not exactly sure on what planet it is that guardian frogs must protect the spiralling corridors of their temples from an unholy invasion of coloured balls, but we suspect it's the same one Bub and Bob visited.

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