Title: Bricks4Ever
Developer: Running Pixel
Genre: Action & Adventure
Price: 80 Points
Countries: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States
Languages: English
Developer Summary:
A whole new light on the breakout style games world. Play with the double stick mode, enjoy the coop modes and the 50 levels. Play for ever with the neverending mode and the relaxing Zen mode; hours of fun for all the blocks/bricks games fans! Ready for the challenge?
What Our Reviewers Think:
Bricks4Ever is a classic arcade-style brick breakout game. At fifty levels, plus a randomly generated infinite level mode, its a decent sized game for the price. The graphics are a little on the retro side, but rightfully so. Mixed with higher resolution and bright colors, they add a great overall feel to the experience. The co-op mode seems tacked on. This is the style of game you play by yourself. As much as I enjoyed it, I can only give this one a two for originality – it's not hard to go wrong with a classic proven game-style especially when many of these XNA developers are essentially retro modding already working templates; the breakout game has been done and redone so many times they all kind of blend together and there is nothing ground-breaking about this latest execution which will likely fade away into obscurity.
On the positive side, it has a great soundtrack, some decent glowing neon graphics and a list of power-ups that seem to comprise almost all the iterations you have seen in previous versions, rolled into one package.  Twin stick mode? You will love it or hate it – imagine another platform on the opposite side of the field that you also control. You can use it to steer the ball from both sides for more accuracy, but purists may find it just gets in the way. If you feel like revisiting Arkanoid, this time with extra KoolAdeTM crystals, then 80 Microsoft points will be a small sacrifice to pay, it is among the better breakouts on XBLIG, not that that's saying much.
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