MadCowBalls2 Reviews

For a £0.79 game, MadCowBalls 2 is well worth buying; especially if you enjoy playing 2D breakout/arkanoids. It looks quite amateurish if you just look at the graphic; however, not only has the developer been updating the game regularily since its release in October 2019 to add new ideas to the game; e.g. the last update was November 2021 when the Boss update was added. This creates bosses using a random algorithm that adds different bosses using a selection from thirteen different boss elements; for example, these elements include speed up bricks that cause your ball to move faster, a homing stun weapon that paralyses your bat temporarily, spikes that if hit by your ball, destroy it, as well as lots more such as brick re-generators etc. Each boss created is very unlikely to be exactly the same as previous bosses you've encountered in game due to the randomised nature of how the bosses are created. Also, and this is a big also, it has some original features not seen in any breakouts I've played over the 30 plus years I've been regularly playing breakouts, and I've purchased and played many hundreds. I first came across my first breakout when Atari released what was considered at the time an updated version of Pong, made for single players, i.e. the original and first breakout, ever released back in 1976 almost 50 years ago. I've loved playing breakouts ever since; and, until fairly recently would buy any that I discovered had been released. One of my prerequisites for buying any new breakout these days is that it should have some original elements (or at least include a level editor so that I can create my own levels), compared to other breakouts, which I'm glad to say this cheapest of cheap games, does have in more than one instance; and, when I call it cheap, I don't mean cheap in the sense of rubbish. Not only does it have original ideas it also has over 60 different power ups (I've only ever come across one other breakout that includes so many power-ups called Breakquest, which you can download for free with a registration code for free from the developers site [url=http://breakquest.com/][b]HERE[/b][/url] (You have to input the code via keyboard not copy and paste to register it). Apart from Breakquest, which has been one of my favourite Breakouts over the past 20 years or so, I have to say, MadCowBalls 2 is just as good, if not better. Power-ups can be upgraded or accessed by spending skill points which you earn by completing levels and scoring big points. That is, you don't get access to all the power-ups from the outset of the game, which is something I like in my breakouts because it keeps the game fresh when new power-ups are introduced progressively through the levels. It also has 145 different brick types, eight levels of difficulty, which are unlocked as you earn skill points and progress through the levels. You'll find there are twelve different level types overall, but the layout of each is presented in so many different ways because of the size of the play-field (it has a grid comprising of 555 elements, with bricks placed randomly when a new level starts). So basically the game has virtually an infinite number of levels. With the number of brick types, the different difficulty modes as well as the random placement of bricks there's basically unlimited re-playabilty for this game. To get a better idea about what this game offers, you should read the Steam introduction [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1077680/MadCowBalls2/][b]HERE[/b][/url] and the community hub [url=https://steamcommunity.com/app/1077680/][b]HERE[/b][/url] to check out all the different updates and various images the community have posted. I'm quite shocked that at this point in time, now approaching five years post release that there are only three reviews posted on Steam, thankfully all giving it a positive thumbs up. There are five curator thumbs up for the game as well If you like breakouts at all, I highly recommend this game. It costs far less than a cup of Starbucks coffee and there's virtually nothing you can buy for the same price that this game costs that will give you hours upon hours of reasonable game play for such a cheap price. That said, its not a game I could play for hours at a time; it's an ideal coffee/tea break game. You can even get your name on the Steam global high score table. At the time of posting this review it was virtually empty and still only has about 15 names on it (including mine twice). Finally, I'd love to see this re-released with a decent graphic upgrade sometime in the future. It would easily give the likes of Ricochet Infinity, Incrediball: The Seven Sapphires, Action Ball, Shatter, Reaxxion, and Caromble a run for their money (the named breakouts are ones I consider my top ten favourite breakouts of all time; Breakquest, the free one I mention above in the third paragraph is also included in that list. Which is saying something as I have several hundred different breakouts in my game library (not all Steam games) Review updated May 27th 2024.