Blasterball 2: Holidays
This game is the sequel to Blasterball 2: Revolution. It is a Breakout game,
so you have your paddle, the ball and a level filled of bricks, which you have
to destroy with the ball, which you “control” with the paddle.
The game starts with 3 lives, once you miss your last ball in the game, you
loose a life. If you scoring enough points by breaking the bricks, you will be
rewarded with an extra life. The same goes when you are lucky enough to catch
one of those rare 1-UP-Power-Ups. With those lives, you play through two
worlds, each filled with 100 levels. At every 20th level, you are facing a
guardian, which blocks the next levels. The more guardians you face, the more
powerful they are. Some guardians have self-defenses, which can destroy your
paddle. The game has also bonus levels, which can be accessed by destroying
the Secret-Brick. If you loose your final ball their, you don’t loose a life,
but the secret level ends immediately.
The game offers four difficulty levels and while there is no save function,
you can start the game from every 10th level, assuming you already reached
those.
Like usually, you have a lot of Power-Ups, which will help you to complete the
game, those are: paddle shrinker, paddle expander, laser equipment, attach
(the ball don’t bounce from the paddle), phantom paddle (this provides a
ghostly extension which follows you), twin paddle (it divides your paddle into
two paddles, but you move them like one), slower ball, faster ball, divide
(3-ball), 8-ball, Blasterball (goes through any bricks), extra life, flash
(destroys the enemies) and score multipliers.
The enemies aren’t really enemies, as they can’t attack you, but they might
divert your ball into a direction, where you can’t catch it. They can be
destroyed by impacting with the ball.
There are also a lot of special brick types in the game, most notable the
explosive bricks (damaging adjacent bricks), the plague brick (spawns new
normal bricks) and the secret brick.
Touching the secret brick will immediately end the current game and you have
the chance to play a secret level, to score lots of points (and earning
additional lives that way).
Special about this game is the theme, which is of course Holiday related, so
the background graphics, the level design and your enemies originating from
various different holidays.
Minimum System Requirements | ||
CPU | Intel Pentium III | |
RAM | 256 MB | |
OS | Windows XP | |
Direct X | DirectX 8.1 |