Peggle Review

by Wolfa on the 10th November 2009

Peggle is an action puzzler with a colorful mix of Break Out and Puzzle Bubble.

At first I was skeptical to Peggle, I would not try it until a friend of mine recommended it to me. It reminded me of one of those games were you drop a metal ball into a standing board, it will bounce around and then fall into a hole which giving you a total score. I must say that I was not totally wrong, Peggle still reminds me of that, but it is a lot more fun to play.

The idea is: with a cannon on top of the screen you have to shoot all orange blocks on the level with a set number of balls. There are several ways you can earn extra balls, for instance, you can get a certain amount of points in one shot or hit a moving platform in the bottom of the screen with the ball.

There are 10 characters you can choose to play with"10 characters you can choose to play with" that give you an extra power. You can activate their power by hitting a green block with you ball (there are usually two in each level). The powers differ a lot but they are a bit unbalanced. All of them come in handy when you play the single player campaign game, but when you duel the computer or a friend, picking the wrong character will make you lose the game.

Yes, there are several game modes: the single player campaign, a challenge mode and a duel mode. The challenge mode is levels from the campaign, only varied in some way. The challenge ranges from a simple duel with the computer to that you have to beat the level with one ball only. The duel mode pits you against the computer or a friend, hot-seat. In this mode you do not actually have to finish the level, it is all up to the scores you get.

I love Peggle. It is a neat game that I can play whenever I have a couple of minutes over or when I get the cravings for circular collision estimation. It is a really solid game with a very polished finish"a really solid game with a very polished finish". There is details and effects that still makes me smile, and I have never had any hang or likewise with it (which is always nice the days). You may question some of the trick shot awards, and some of the levels are really hard, but that is about it. I only wish there was an infinitive mode, like Tetris, I tend to enjoy that kind of stuff.

Two thumbs up for Peggle!

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