I was a little, disappointed with this breakout, but for £1.99, what was i expecting. After collecting hundreds of them over the years, I was expecting something with at least some innovation, and much better graphics. Hmmm! well....... maybe the space invader like levels are different, but overall Breakout Invaders is a poor second cousin removed to many of the breakouts I've played over the years. Some freeware versions have been more challenging, and look better graphically than this game. It's not seriously bad, but compared to a lot of the more recent breakout games I've played, it looks dated , even though some of the level designs are quite interesting.
The game felt sluggish with my mouse (a Razer Naga), the graphics are a retrograde step when compared to the likes of games like Magic Ball 2, 3 and 4, Strikeball 2 and 3 (to name just a few of the more well known ones - for some reason Alawar changed the name of the Magic Ball series to Smash Frenzy). The original, released over 10 years ago, is the only one in the Magic Ball series that looks and plays worse than today's game. The second in the Magic Ball series looked better than today's game (released way back in 2005), had more power ups and played well. The third in the series had a major graphics update (see video link below). Compare Breakout Invaders to the likes of the Magic Ball games, Ricochet Infinity and Shatter, the latter two of which are available via Steam. They are worlds apart in quality and game play. Breakouts were my first love w.r.t. arcade games (next to shmups and TD games). All that said, Breakout Invaders is only £1.99, soooo.... despite my disappointment, it's not a great loss; I've still got thousands of free levels to play via Ricochet infinity. :)
You can compare videos of the breakouts I mentioned above by clicking on their names. [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtrXBHSYIZw][b]Magic Ball 3[/b][/url], [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfg1HnGkHFM][b]Magic Ball 2[/b][/url], [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpjAXX1tUM][b]Ricochet Infinity[/b][/url], [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ffFiiUPc3Q][b]Shatter[/b][/url], [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzcx3iRyKyk][b]Breakout Invaders[/b][/url], and the freeware game [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcBfzqMnYjk][b]Chak's Temple[/b][/url].
Edit:
After some thought and a little more game play, I decided for the price thye game was worth a thumbs up.
The sluggishness I mentioned previously appears to have been fixed, so that alone has improved the game play a lot. Unfortunately one of the games I said was still available via steam called Ricochet Infinity was removed some time ago, but can be downloaded free from several abandonware sites. On top of that, there's a fan site that recovered many of the better fan mad elevels of which there are tens of thousands. You can link that site to the game by some jiggery popkery editing of a document located in the games folder so that it links directly to the games custom mad elevel download, so all the levels can be added to the orifginal game directly from in game. You can find details of the free levels and links to the free Ricochet games (all of them including Infinity via [url=https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/467708][b]THIS[/b][/url] link
