Unlock the King 3

The bugs, poor camera, and annoying 3D boards of Unlock the King 2 are gone, but now the camera is Y-inverted, there are fewer levels, and it feels as though the developer just didn't care about the quality of the puzzles anymore. So many sections of puzzles, including pieces and buttons, go unused -- and not even in a "red herring" manner. They don't serve to distract or confuse because there's no reason to consider them. It's cheap and I didn't hate it, but it's not really worth the time. The first in the trilogy was the best.

Where the first Unlock the King was an interesting puzzle game, and the second largely failing to deliver on the promise of a third dimension, this third iteration - with it's Rubik's Cube inspired adjustment of the available board - fails in every way imaginable. Yes, the moving parts come in at a reasonable time in the series of puzzles, but that is about the only redeeming feature. Most of the puzzles are not even slightly puzzling, requiring only a few pieces to be moved, and often not all of the rotatable elements. There are also many pieces on each board that serve no purpose, either to confuse or to block. And, as others have mentioned, the Y-axis rotation is inverted, making the viewing confusing and off-putting. And to think the idea had so much potential. For rotations to be repeatable, or to undo when a piece was moved off. To be combined with the board rearrangement of the

All the problems of Unlock the King 2, but additionally the camera controls are Y inverted??? The levels aren't as good because they are filled with distractions and red herrings, just so much of the stage that you can completely ignore. I don't know if that's supposed to be a "see through the matrix" kind of thing, but it's just annoying when you make the two moves actually necessary to complete the stage, and frustrating when you go down that path and get stuck because you didn't see the move that would ignore that part of the level. There's even fewer levels than the previous games and since they aren't as enjoyable this is really a lousy experience. And thanks for putting all these faint colors without putting a colorblind mode, really makes an already overly-contrived game more convoluted. The first game is all that is worth playing from this series.

This game is simply broken. I should have listened to the other reviews. Simply put the resolution and size of the playing area is too small and cannot be maximised properly. Consequently, instead of concentrating on what are excellent puzzles, you are fighting constant eye strain. I have a 50" monitor and nothing I did could get it better. Changing resolution of the monitor degraded the graphics, using the accessibility magnifier messed with my settings. I really don't understand why they released it without the ability to zoom in correctly. Its excellent 2 predecessors had the option. This 3rd instalment could have been great, but as it stands I can't recommend it at all. What with their useless Zen Chess products and now this one I will be steering clear of this company from now on. Also, people have been reporting this problem on the forums of this product for weeks and they have not