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7 Wonders of the Ancient World (DS)

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7 Wonders is a competent clone of a competent Bejeweled clone that does little to set itself apart.

Specifications: ESRB: Everyone; Genre: Puzzle; Number of players: 1 Player See full specs

Price range: $14.94 - $19.99

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Reviewed by: Ryan Davis
Reviewed on: 09/25/2007
Released on: 09/17/2007

Success breeds imitation, and in the world of video games this is no more apparent than in the realm of puzzle games. Casual game company PopCap struck gold with Bejeweled, a simple and addictive grid-based gem-matching game, and it wasn't long before competing casual game company iWin conjured up its own, Mayan-themed Bejeweled knockoff called Jewel Quest. Now MumboJumbo is getting in on the action with 7 Wonders of the Ancient World for the DS, which cribs more directly from Jewel Quest than Bejeweled, effectively making 7 Wonders a knockoff of a knockoff.

As a Bejeweled knockoff, 7 Wonders plays about how you'd expect. Each level consists of a grid of different-colored runes that you can shuffle around to create rows or columns of three or more like-colored runes in order to make those runes disappear. In 7 Wonders, each level is themed after one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, which include the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Artemis, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Mausoleum of Maussollos, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse of Alexandria.

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Ironically, one of the seven wonders isn't, 'I wonder why they made this game.'

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