While not quite as oversaturated as the tower defense sub-genre in recent years, brick breakers are beginning to become more prevalent on PSN. Isquared games Hyperballoid HD is the latest spin on the decades old game of smashing bricks with only a ball and paddle (as well as a range of miscellaneous powerups). Whether or not Hyperballoid HD provides you with enough to motivate you to add it to your collection may depend as much on if you’ve had your fill of bricks n’ balls, as it does the quality of the game itself.
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."
