For pennies over £3 you can get 100 levels of bat-and-ball goodness in the form of Hyperballoid HD. These are split into Ancient World Campaign and Planets World Campaign... Love the grammar on that last one. This choice turns out to be more meaningful than it first appears. There a few power-ups unique to each setting. That, and the levels aren't just the same old patterns with a different background picture. For example, in the final levels of the Planets theme there's a level with flying saucers shooting paddle and ball-shrinking power-ups at you.
Exciting news for Hyperballoid HD fans: the Original World Campaign downloadable content (DLC) will be included in today's European PlayStation Network update. The Original World Campaign DLC gives players access to fifty new levels for Hyperballoid HD, the addictive brick-breaker that launched in Europe last December.
The ArmChair Empire: Such a simple concept for a game: bounce a sphere off a paddle into “bricks” with the goal being to entirely clear the level of each and every last one. First with Breakout and even more so with Arakanoid, it became known as the brick-breaker game, relatively popular in the early, early days of gaming in the 1970s and 1980s.
Gamer 2.0 writes: "With a number of games with twists to the brick-breaking formula having appeared on PSN in the past year, it’s surprising to see that nothing more traditional has been released on PSN in the last three years. Hyperballoid HD is the new PS3 iteration of a PC line of Arkanoid clones from Alawar Entertainment, which offers about 100 new levels for just $4.99. While the game is cheap, it does come with some unfortunate issues that keep it from being a perfect purchase for a cheap price."
