

Players can even acquire helpful items and potions to use in battle. Players will also gain experience over time, allowing Lex the Bookworm to receive more health or other attribute-enhancing powers. The larger the word, the more damage is dealt.

One-on-one battles take place from a side-view perspective within the screen's top half as each side trades health-depleting blows.

Each word formed on the 4x4 grid is used as an "attack" against more than 150 mythological monsters. Bookworm Adventures features yet another twist: the design is closer to a role-playing game than a traditional action puzzle title. Unlike previous titles, letters do not have to be connected to one another. As in earlier games, players are challenged to build words by selecting letter tiles positioned on a grid. PopCap's word-loving worm embarks on an epic quest to save an oracle named Cassandra in Bookworm Adventures.
