Puzzle Quest expansion on Live tomorrow

By Robert Purchese Published 22 July, 2008

Revenge of the Plague Lord begins.

D3Publisher is releasing a Puzzle Quest add-on called Revenge of the Plague Lord on Xbox Live tomorrow.

The price is 700 Points (GBP 5.95 / EUR 8.40) and there are plenty of new toys to play with.

There are four new hero professions in the shape of bard, rogue, ranger and warlock, for example, along with 25 new quests, 50 extra spells and 40 magical items.

Antharg is the Plague Lord in question and awaits you at the end of your travels, but there are plenty of other new baddies and bosses to face along the way.

The level cap has also been raised to 60 and there are new Achievements to pursue.

Puzzle Quest is a cross between Bejeweled and a role-playing game that has rats and fairies and things. You fight baddies by out thinking them in a puzzle showdown, which all worked out very well and left the original game with lots of high praise.

Head over to our Puzzle Quest review to find out more.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (13) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • mechamonkey #1 4 years ago

    help me, make the addiction stop....

  • mexalen #2 4 years ago

    oh noes... now I've got to play Puzzle Quest again. Should fill the gap till Galactrix comes out :)

  • viper_h #3 4 years ago

    I got this on the DS. Quite enjoyed it, but couldn't be doing with the cheating computer who could see the blocks off the top of the screen.

    Bastards.

    Might buy this on Live again just to play it on my telly. I hate the DS.

  • berelain #4 4 years ago

    Oh Noes!

    Now I'll have to play it. Again!

    @ Eurogamer "There are four new hero professions in the shape of bard, rogue, ranger and warlock, for example"

    For Example? But didn't you just list all four?

  • systems #5 4 years ago

    @viper_h: I bought the DS version too. Ended up flogging it as the cheating was too blatant. I didn't feel it was a game of skill any more and it quickly became a game of "are you high enough level to be here yet?". I don't think the 360 version is any different but they did make changes to the PSP version's cheating.

  • siro #6 4 years ago

    Shit. I want to play this, Puzzle Quest is crack on a cart / disk / hard drive. But I only have (actually had) the DS game and I don't want to buy it a second time on Live, but maybe would even do so if I hadn't have to play through the whole game again then.

  • systems #7 4 years ago

    The original Puzzle Quest has dropped from 1200 to 800 points, so that may be enough to push more people over the edge into pure addiction.

  • Stoatboy #8 4 years ago

    re: "For Example? But didn't you just list all four? "

    The 4 new classes was an example of the "new toys" mentioned in the preceding sentence.

  • mkreku #9 4 years ago

    When is this coming out on the PC..?

  • GordonJ #10 4 years ago

    Last I saw on their website, the expansion was exclusive to xbla.

  • michaelius #11 4 years ago

    That's extremly expensive considering orginal is 20$ + VAT on Steam (and there was 10$ sale recently)

  • mexalen #12 4 years ago

    I bought the DS version and later the X360 one. Now I am going to get the expansion, and later in the year Galactrix. ...I thinks something in my brain needs to get rewired... :D

  • dryden555 #13 4 years ago

    puzzle quest's AI does not cheat. The AI will play a constantly smart game and if you arent careful with every move, it will exploit the board. If you play a move and that sets up the AI with a big combo, that is your fault. That is not a cheating AI. For example, If you see a big combo for the AI, then deliberately make a bad move and lose 5 points. That will force the AI to play some other move and if you're lucky you will get to play that big move on your turn.

    The developer has posted exactly how the AI works and if you google around you'll find that info.