3D Card Games
Up the Ante With Freeverse’s New Titles

By Brad Cook
JARED, Butcher of Song. A giant whose enormous hands are the only body parts you can see. A cantankerous alien with a penchant for Martin Scorcese films.

You might not want to play cards with any of them in person, but we bet you’ll have a blast playing against them — or your friends — in Freeverse’s latest card games, 3D Hearts Deluxe and 3D Spades Deluxe. These titles offer not only more than 20 computer opponents whose playing styles you can customize, but also rules that you can modify to your liking, Internet play against your pals, tutorials for beginners, and more.

Customize Your Card Games
As in Freeverse’s iPuppet Presents: Colin’s Classic Cards, both games allow you to insert a picture in the game so that your Internet buddies can see what you look like. (Or you can always insert a picture of what you wish you’d look like.) All you need to do is drag the image onto the game window and drop it there — no need to tinker with complicated controls or menus.

And when you play online, you’ll use the new GameSmith service, which will match you against opponents from around the world, allow you to chat with them while you play, and rank you against the rest of the players.

Hearts and Spades also feature a variety of interesting backdrops for your card game marathons, including New York City’s Central Park, a cruise ship, or a haunted house, to name a few.

So if you’re ready to play some cards, be sure to stop by Freeverse and order 3D Hearts Deluxe and 3D Spades Deluxe. Just tell them that JARED, Butcher of Song, sent you. 		  HeartsSpades

3D Hearts and 3D Spades: Get Ready For a Card-Playing Experience of a Different Kind.

3D Hearts and 3D Spades available from Freeverse

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System Requirements:
Mac OS X version 10.1 or Mac OS 8.6 or higher
32MB of RAM
250MB of free hard disk space
28.8Kbps internet connection or better

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A Menagerie of Card Players

EuchreFreeverse is well-known for the colorful characters who inhabit the company’s games. Here’s a partial list of the more than 20 card sharks you’ll encounter in 3D Hearts Deluxe and 3D Spades Deluxe.

Chelsea: She’s the kind of person who makes “Type A” personalities cower with fear. Chelsea talks non-stop as a way to distract you and will roar with laughter if she’s able to beat you with that tactic. Play against her at your own risk.

Giant: You won’t see much of him beyond a pair of enormous hands resting on the back of his chair. Giant isn’t very bright, so he’ll use every dirty trick in a card shark’s book to beat you. Just hope he doesn’t get hungry while playing.

JARED, Butcher of Song: A long-time Freeverse favorite, JARED has chopped up many songs with his meat cleaver of a voice. Luckily for you, card playing distracts him from singing. Most of the time.

Jeremy: The recession has done nothing to diminish this guy’s love of stock trading. He enjoys placing big bets and beating the odds, so of course he takes the same approach to playing cards. He may drop a stock tip or two while you play against him, though.

King Colin: He’s the king of everything important, which in his mind begins and ends with card games. He and MiniQueen have a rivalry going.

Merlina: At the age of 18, a girl named Starshine Granolaberry woke from a lifelong coma to discover that she was living in a commune in Berkeley. She immediately left and began a diet consisting of nothing but veal, Twinkies, and Slim Jims. Her hobbies include clear-cutting rainforests, parking her huge Cadillac in handicapped spots, and playing cards for cash.

MiMiZu: His name means “worm” in Japanese. When he was young, MiMiZu came across a picnic and saw some people playing cards. He longed to be with them, so a magic fairy granted him his wish, making him big enough to play cards with a wave of her wand. But he’s still a worm.

MiniQueen: She’s King Colin’s girlfriend, but that doesn’t stop him from getting angry at her whenever she beats him at cards, which is pretty much every time they play.

Sue: Unlike most of the characters in these games, Sue is a normal person. Well, except for a childhood obsession with digging things up (including the neighbors’ dead pets) that caused her parents to send her to an Egyptian boarding school. Now she’s a professional archaeologist and a part-time card game aficionado.

Zebulon Pesci: Zebulon was thrown off his home world near Orion’s Belt after watching too many Earth TV shows and movies and repeating everything he heard. He arrived on our planet a few years ago and plays cards while waiting for Martin Scorcese to return his calls about a screen test.