Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD RemixPlayStation 3)

GameSpot editors' review

• CNET editors' rating: 3.5 stars Very good
  Detailed editors' rating
  Overall score: 7.5 (3.5 stars)

• Reviewed by:
  Jeff Gerstmann
• Reviewed on: 08/30/2007
• Released on: 08/29/2007
• Originally published on GameSpot: Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD RemixPlayStation 3) Review

Capcom's Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo is a classic puzzle game that combines the incredibly addictive gem-busting gameplay of games like Puyo Puyo or Baku Baku with superdeformed versions of characters from Capcom's fighting universe. This competitive puzzle game has always seemed like it would be a great fit for online play, but the only Internet-capable version to date is a Dreamcast release that never made it to North America. Now it's finally online, ready for both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and it has also received a partial graphical overhaul. If you've ever been a fan of Puzzle Fighter, or any other competitive puzzle game, you should add this one to your collection.

Conceptually, Puzzle Fighter is pretty simple. There are gems of four different colors, and they fall into your pit in groups of two. You can rotate the gems around and drop them as you see fit, which usually involves grouping the colors together to make larger, connected groups of gems. The four gem colors also have corresponding colored crash gems. When you connect a crash gem to a quantity of like-colored blocks, they all blast apart and are removed from your pit. The remaining blocks fall as necessary, and the game continues. Busting up larger groups of gems, or even better yet, creating combos of multiple crashes, builds up a collection of junk gems that get dropped onto your opponent's screen. The junk gems count down with every drop and eventually turn back into regular-colored gems, which in turn might just set off a huge chain reaction on your opponent's side, sending a mess of blocks your way, and so on. Play continues until one player loses by having a full pit. The back-and-forth nature of Puzzle Fighter is what makes it so over-the-top and exciting, and you never really know what's going to happen.

All games are played competitively, whether you're playing against the machine or against a human opponent. You can play two-player matches locally or over the Internet. Most of the time the game works just fine online, though matches are occasionally sluggish and jumpy to the point of being unplayable. You can also play unranked matches with up to four players in them, in which the losing player rotates out and the next player swaps in, much like the quarter-match mode found in Street Fighter II Turbo on the 360.

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