Hyperballoid Deluxe
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Hyperballoid Deluxe is a Breakout game, but no ordinary, at least two of the three game modes aren't ordinary.
The Traditional game mode plays and looks like you expect. You have your paddle, and a screen filled with rectangular bricks forming a certain structure. Now you are firing a ball from your paddle to the structure, destroying bricks on ball impact. You use the paddle to bounce the ball back into the playfield when it's about to leave the bottom of the screen. Once all bricks are gone, you proceed to the next level. When you loose all your lives, you have lost the game.
The other two game modes, Exotic and Extreme, featuring not only rectangular bricks, but all sorts of geometric figures, like triangles, circles, squares, ellipses and more. Even different sized bricks are possible here. This allows the creation of correctly looking trees, clouds and other tiny things, but also in the level size, like a level, which looks like a clock. Furthermore, motion is possible here. Predefined bricks may move a certain way, loose bricks (which don't break apart on first impact) may fly away on impact, etc. So, back to clock example: the clocks hands are moving.
The game itself offering plenty of power-ups, like paddle shrinker/expander, ball speed increase/decrease, 3-ball, 8-ball, level skipper, different sized balls, different weapons (laser, gun, etc.), and much more. All in all 25 different power-ups.
Furthermore, you have the chance to play through 150 different levels on three difficulty settings.
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Not just an ordinary Breakout clone...
The Good
Most of the Breakout games, even modern remakes, trying to make the gameplay as accurate as possible to the original. When it comes to innovation, then the perspective changes (i.e. 3D, isometric, etc), the game itself becomes 3D, but in the end, all levels are still structures of rectangle (or rectangular parallelepipeds). Well, this is good for the Breakout game, but for the player? Particularly when you seen this dozen of times, your are crying for something with more innovation.
And here it is. Offering a huge diversity on geometric figures, creating all sort of complex, yet good looking, structures. Some bricks changing the color on impact, other fading out some times, making it penetrable once, and impassible at another time.
Combining this with the motion was a very good choice. OK, this isn't the first Breakout with motion in it (see Ricochet for example), but since it isn't used to just let some bricks fly around, but to actually animate the structures in a level, it makes the levels much more real.
The graphics looking superb, for example the explosions when the fireball impacts.
The Bad
Well, the music. I don't like Techno music, and this game is practically Techno only (or some sort of).
A Death power-up, which kills you instantly. Who needs this anyway? And I really don't like to dodge dozen of them while my ball is busy in the playfield.
Well, while not a problem for me, as I only played the non-registered Shareware (time trial), I have to say that the usual problem is still the same. Breakout isn't a game you can play hours after hours, it's just something for a break. Nothing more.
The Bottom Line
If you are tired with the common Breakout clones, but you like Breakouts in general. Then this is surely something you should try.
Windows · by Xoleras (66141) · 2005
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Game added January 22, 2005. Last modified November 13, 2023.