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  • Summary: [Xbox Live Arcade] Also known as "Word Search." You'll never think about word search puzzles the same way again. Word Puzzle takes a new spin on the classic game, plunging you into an action-packed arcade experience complete with combos, exploding word bombs, unique 3-D boards, achievements, and the chance to prove your textual superiority against other players. Five different game modes and frequently updated downloadable word packs give you nearly unlimited flexibility and excitement. So put down that pen and paper, because this is a word search for the 21st century! New twists: Exploding word bombs, prop cards used to distract your opponents, 3-D game boards, and other effects combine to provide a word search game like you've never played before. Five unique gameplay modes: Try Freeplay for traditional word search fun, Arcade mode to score impressive combos, Local Battle for competitive play on a single console, Live Multiplayer with support for up to 4 players online, and check out the unique Survival Mode where word bombs can explode, and have to be defused.
    Camera-enabled: The game supports the Xbox LIVE Vision camera during live match play. Achievements and leaderboard: Twelve new achievements to master and a leaderboard to compare your word search skills with others. [Microsoft]
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  1. Positive: 0 out of 16
  2. Negative: 11 out of 16
  1. Against similarly matched opponents, it's a tense, fast-paced contest, and it delivers an experience that's fairly unique to the digital format. For this mode, we'd pay the $10. [Nov 2007, p.94]
  2. If you’re a casual gamer and you're looking for some word search puzzles then maybe you could pick this up. It really doesn’t improve on the original and considering the original is paper and pen that’s quite shocking.
  3. Despite the descriptive accuracy of its title, Word Puzzle is too shallow to satisfy fans of word puzzles.
  4. Word Puzzle does a good job in presenting this kind of contest on the Xbox 360, but it also seems to be proof that perhaps not everything that can be done with pen and paper should make the leap to an electronic form; nor does the addition of arcade-like elements to a basic word game necessarily make it more compelling.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 1 out of 2
  1. JC
    9
    Don't expect groundbreaking, but this is simple fun, more so when competing with a friend.
  2. BobP.
    3
    I had high hopes for this game because it was new & different...but I find that after the first few sessions, I don't want to keep playing it.