Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords Review
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That's the scenario for Infinite Interactive's Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords. It's a role-playing game (RPG) that combines the classic elements of wizards and sorcery with the puzzle solving aspects of games like Alchemy or Bejeweled.
Puzzle Quest has actually been around for about a year, having been released for consoles and Windows XP during the course of 2007. The Macintosh version of the game launched in March, using the Cider engine, which means that it only runs on an Intel-based Mac.
The game actually has its roots in another RPG series, Warlord, which has been around since the late 1980s and has seen many updates over the years. Nevertheless, Puzzle Quest is an interesting departure from the typical RPG or real-time strategy game because it uses puzzles for battles instead of swords or other weapons. The real battle takes place in your mind. In a way, this takes the gameplay back to its original roots, the tabletop RPG, and away from the more traditional fare of recent years, the ever more realistic video battle simulation.
