February 25th, 2008 by PCGGame Review: Hyperballoid 2
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Game Description:
Hyperballoid 2 is more than a sequel to one of the best old school Brick Buster games around, it's also a new high for the genre that pushes the boundaries of visuals, gameplay and user customization. If you want a Brick Buster game with superb high resolution graphics, outrageous new powerups and silky smooth controls, you've got it.
Game size: 33.3 MB
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Review from: GameZebo
No, sci-fi brick-basher Hyperballoid 2 isn't named after a rare and debilitating medical condition. But if it were, symptoms would include excessive muscular contractions around the wrist, darting eyes, heightened blood pressure and an irresistible compulsion to remain glued to the PC. A highly engaging and surreally beautiful take on the ancient art of arcade-style, Arkanoid-inspired block smashing, it's the sort of value-minded title that successfully lobbies hard to earn a spot in your personal gaming collection.
Officially subtitled "Time Rider," the outing - and we say this with honest affection - would better have been dubbed "Time Waster." It's so good, in fact, that you'll be compelled to squeeze in additional rounds during coffee breaks at work, just to see if you can bang out a few more levels before turning back to that TPS report. But enough gushing: You've got four uniquely-themed (and named... get a load of the pidgin English behind such featured groupings as Original, Ancient, Planets [sic] and Hitech World) realms to conquer. Quirky nomenclature notwithstanding, you're free to tackle all at your own pace, hopping back and forth between each aesthetically-varied category as the mood strikes.
And believe us... Want to experiment you will, as a relatively basic gameplay formula - move your mouse left/right to make a bottom-mounted paddle swat bouncing balls back into the destructible bricks waiting above - is quickly transcended by the adventure's stunning feature set. Not only will you play on beautiful, individualized backgrounds featuring moving parts, animated blocks that dart in/out and oscillating designs based on Trojan horses, swirling nebulae and the inside of chugging machines. You'll also get to annihilate over 280 kinds of bricks (steel, stone, glass, etc.) using a whopping 45 special bonuses and detailed physics modeling...
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Officially subtitled "Time Rider," the outing - and we say this with honest affection - would better have been dubbed "Time Waster." It's so good, in fact, that you'll be compelled to squeeze in additional rounds during coffee breaks at work, just to see if you can bang out a few more levels before turning back to that TPS report. But enough gushing: You've got four uniquely-themed (and named... get a load of the pidgin English behind such featured groupings as Original, Ancient, Planets [sic] and Hitech World) realms to conquer. Quirky nomenclature notwithstanding, you're free to tackle all at your own pace, hopping back and forth between each aesthetically-varied category as the mood strikes.
And believe us... Want to experiment you will, as a relatively basic gameplay formula - move your mouse left/right to make a bottom-mounted paddle swat bouncing balls back into the destructible bricks waiting above - is quickly transcended by the adventure's stunning feature set. Not only will you play on beautiful, individualized backgrounds featuring moving parts, animated blocks that dart in/out and oscillating designs based on Trojan horses, swirling nebulae and the inside of chugging machines. You'll also get to annihilate over 280 kinds of bricks (steel, stone, glass, etc.) using a whopping 45 special bonuses and detailed physics modeling...