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Atlantis Solitaire 

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Jewel MatchAtlantis Solitaire” from Suricate Software has now reach version 5. As with the previous versions of the title this software follows the company’s standard pattern of combining Solitaire game play and the building of various underwater palaces.

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Available in Collector’s Edition format, this game allows for the usual adjustments to be made to various sound levels.  You will also be granted a variety of choices when it comes to selecting the card face images and back decorations plus the colour of the gems used to reward you for the completion of a level and used to finance the building of underwater constructions.  When playing the game, you will also have a choice of Normal, Relaxed, Timed or Hard levels of difficulties.  In my case I opted for the Relaxed level for the purpose of the review and this gave me the chance to play through the stock pile twice in order to complete certain levels.

The game’s different levels are spread out over a winding path which you need to follow as you encounter the game’s 540 Solitaire layouts of creating chains that are one up or down format of the previous card.  Concealed behind many of the cards making up a layout will be a coin while, less frequently, a gem will sit on a card and these items will be yours for use once the card is removed.  The coins can be used to purposed items and increase facilities from a shop feature while the gems, as mentioned earlier, will pay for any building purposes.

Along with the addition of a coin and/or gem, some cards may be decorated with a particular symbol.  The presence of the symbol will indicate that a certain necessary task will need to be carried out before the card can be removed.  The task required will depend upon the symbol displayed.  For example you might need to unlock with a key, remove seaweed with a sword, and call on help from a turtle to disperse a swarm of jelly fish or use a hammer or scissors to clear away chains and other blockages.  Fortunately a Help feature can provide information as how to remove such blockages.

Every so often as you make your way along this winding path, you will be given the option to take on a specific challenge from those the game supports.  When these occasions occur you take accept the challenge or opt to carry out with your main task.  Among the challenges you could face by this method, it could involve tasks such as play a Classic game, Supersize level, Match-2 levels, Sliding levels or Suit & Rank levels.

As to the building element of the game, you will need to construct different underwater buildings with the elements being provided in sections that each have their own set price.  You get to select each available element with the only restriction being whether you have the funds to pay for it.  As a building is completed, you can move on to the next palace waiting to be constructed.

“Jewel Match – Atlantic Solitaire” certainly provides you will plenty of game play action.  You can download this title from Gamehouse.com where it is priced at $19.99.  The game requires a 1.2 GHz processor with 512MB of RAM and 460MB of hard disk space running Windows 7 and later.

Jewel Match Atlantis Solitaire 5 Collector's Edition | GameHouse

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