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Bengal - Game of Gods

In Brief

A bubble popping match 3

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Installation:

Bengal - Game of Gods downloads to a 29.9 MB zip file that unzips to three files, (a setup.gcd security wrapper, the set up file and a read me). Those with multiple hard drives are able to save games on any drive they wish. The newly installed game is 30.3 MB in size. The game installs to the following path by default, but can be changed by the user if you prefer:

C:\Program Files (x86)\MyPlayCity.com\Bengal - Game of Gods

Four shortcuts are installed to the desktop. three of which can be safely deleted (Play Online Games, MyPlayCity Games and shortcuts to a free online game which vary each week). Also, if you don't like icons installed to the quick launch task bar, make sure you uncheck the box when the additional tasks window appears (after the Select Start Menu Folder window)

Introduction:

Do you want to spend your free time with a funny Bengal tiger? The main character meets you just at the beginning of Bengal - Game of Gods. He adores playing with balls and wants you to help him become the champion of jungles! The rules of the game are very simple. There are lots of bright and colorful 3D balls; your objective is to clear all the balls from the chain. Ball chains are moving in labyrinths which can change their direction. New colored balls appear in tiger's paws and clicking on the screen where you want it to go you can shoot the ball! Match three or more bright balls of the same color and as soon as you do it all of them disappear and your score increases.

The chain is constantly moving so don't be afraid of surprises! Another goal is not to let the balls' chain get into the monkey's mouth. Shoot the gold monkey for extra points. Every ball gives you points and your total score goes up. You need good reaction as after each victory the speed goes up as well as the level of difficulty. In spite of the barriers wonderful bonuses will make your way more fascinating. Test your accuracy and help the tiger to win in Bengal - Game of Gods! The tiger is very happy after each victory! During the game you enjoy quiet eastern music which helps feel the atmosphere of jungles where tigers live. There are several levels in Bengal - Game of Gods and you can choose some options yourself. Graphics is excellent - bright colors and original locations will leave pleasant impression - so, download the game right now.

Reference accessed HERE. 28th April 2017

If you have a problem installing or activating or getting Bengal - Game of Gods to work please visit the problems section HERE

The Game:

In Bengal: Game of Gods, you control a striped tiger who must throw a colored ball at a long string of multi-colored balls that snake out onto the screen. The balls follow a specific path, which varies from level to level, and ends inside the mouth of a stone monkey. Your goal is to aim and shoot the ball so that it touches same-colored balls (example: blue with blue); when three or more touch — one of which must be your ball — they explode and disappear. The goal is to clear the entire chain before it makes its way into the monkey’s mouth.

If you don’t want the color held by the tiger (e.g. red), you can swap it with the one on his back (such as green) by simply clicking the right-mouse button. The left-mouse button fires the ball onto the game board.

After every dozen levels or so, the board get increasingly faster and more complex as you travel through the Indian continent. Bengal: Game of Gods, however, adds a few interesting twists to this tried-and-true formula Golden statues will pop up from time to time during the level, and in different places, so you can shoot a ball to destroy it for bonus points.

Power-ups will appear on each board, represented by an icon inside a colored ball. Depending on the icon, you can slow down the speed of the track, temporarily reverse it, increase your accuracy with a light that shines in the direction of your throw, blow up a part of the chain, or turn all nearby balls into the same color. In order to use the power-up you must make a match of at least three touching balls with the same color as the power-up ball.

After the first few levels, you’ll notice the path of the stringed balls will actually change shape before your eyes. This adds another layer of strategy as you must alter the direction of your tiger’s throw to suite the new path. It may also interfere with your ball in mid-flight as it’ll end up somewhere you didn’t anticipate.

Visually speaking, Bengal: Game of Gods looks decent for its age and of course colourful; the exotic theme plays well throughout the level architecture, tiger and monkey animations and map screen, not to mention the middle-eastern music fits well, too.

It would be remiss, though, not to mention a few glaring issues with the game. Bengal: Game of Gods only features one game mode; it would have been better to include three or four different game types (each with unique rules) to add to the game’s replay factor.

More importantly is an issue with how the next color ball is shown. Because you’re looking at the chain instead of your tiger, you are seeing the next ball color out of the corner of your eye. The colored ball you’re about to toss onto the screen is only an inch away from the ball that will precede it, so many times I mistakenly thought I was shooting a red ball, for example, because it was queued up on the tiger’s back, when in fact it was a yellow ball, which ruined my shot. Compare this to games such as Zuma or Pirate Poppers, where the ball you may swap is much smaller than the one you’re firing, so you don’t get them confused.

If you can get past these issues, and the fact there are many similar games out there in cyberspace, the extra features found in Bengal: Game of Gods, such as the fun power-ups and a shifting chain, makes it worth playing.

Edited reference accessed HERE. Original review written by Marc Saltzman on 5th June 2006 . Edited by Whiterabbit-uk 28th April 2017

Other Reviews and videos of Bengal - Game of Gods

You can check out community reviews of Bengal - Game of Gods HERE and more information in the Big Fish forums HERE, and you can see some videos of game play HERE and HERE.

Conclusion:

Bengal - Game of Gods is a decent bubble popping arcade game on the lines of the Luxor and Zuma match three games.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank MyPlayCity for giving away Bengal - Game of Gods and also to the game giveaway team, as always, for securing other ways to get free games.

Useful Information not related to today's game giveaway:

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The rest of the information that used to be posted here can now be found over in the forums HERE. I haven't had the time to update certain sections, but most of the information is still valid and the links that take you to certain deals will still take you to the places where new deals are live.

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