Ricochet Xtreme
Product Description
Ricochet is an award winning breakout style game featuring state of the art graphics, sound, and lots of new twists on the old classic. It’s a winning combination that your WHOLE family will enjoy. As one person wrote us: “My family is thrilled with Ricochet, we have all played it enthusiastically for months!”. System Requirements: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Vista, Windows 7. Processor: at least Penti… More >>
- 170 Exciting Levels.
- 4 Unique Environments.
- 15 Awesome Power-Ups.
- 13 Specialty Bricks.
This game is reminiscent of the 80s game breakout. However, the graphics are awesome and there are a lot more options. You can choose a difficulty level of “Easy” “Normal” “Hard” and “Insane”. Each level introduces new weapons/tools and difficulties. There are a lot of levels and options. The background music is cool too. Things you might not wish to catch are red and things that will improve your game are green or blue.
This is a great game for anyone. It’s very easy to figure out – you hit the ball with your customized paddle, the ball breaks the bricks (or the space age equivalent thereof) and you get points. Every one in the family can have their own profile and high scores are tracked.
Cool bricks we’ve found so far: exploring bricks, extra tough bricks, bricks that release “treats”, and invulnerable bricks.
Some “treats” we’ve found: ball speed changers, paddle length changes, guns for your paddle, and electro-catch (electricity on your paddle that allows you to hold the ball).
This game is fun, addictive and well worth the tiny price.
Rating: 5 / 5
Ricochet is a very solid breakout game that’s been out for a while. It introduced some interesting elements later in the game with triangle bricks and some reactive and moving bricks, although after playing the later games in the series, especially Ricochet Infinity with it’s recall feature and cool brick movement, I can’t really enjoy playing this game very much anymore.
With regards to the “in-game advertisements”, this game did NOT have advertisements in the way most people hearing the word would expect – it wasn’t showing ads for other companies or products, they were never clickable, didn’t download from the internet and nobody was getting paid to show them.
They were just little pictures of game logos that periodically swapped out during game play. The game’s creator said he put them in for artistic purposes. The idea was that ricochet is some futuristic sport, and the little ad box was supposed to refer to the ads you see in real life on the sides of sport arenas.
Also the “advertisements” are in fact still there – it’s just the little ricochet xtreme logo in the lower corner on the HUD. All that changed is they don’t swap out during gameplay, probably because some people said they were distracting, but I liked it better before when they changed.
Bottom line is it’s an interesting breakout game with some real depth to it if you are a true breakout fan, but if you want something faster paced and more alive, try the later ricochet games.
Rating: 4 / 5
Classic Ricochet, fun and addictive with fun bonuses. A great way to kill the time (and boredom)!
Rating: 5 / 5
Update: I checked some of reflexive’s other games on Amazon, and I can’t see another one where they did the same thing as in this one. Regardless, I found the in-game adverts distracting and an unacceptable business practice.
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Look carefully at the preview images before you buy this product (Or any reflexive product?).
The lower right corner (about 1/16th of the screen!) features a rotating ad the WHOLE TIME YOU PLAY THE GAME.
Not only is it insulting to feature ads throughout a PAID game (in demo versions or “free” games this may be acceptable, or at the beginning or end/credits of a normal game), but the ads take up a significant portion of the screen.
The “flashing”/changing of the ads between the various pictures during the gameplay is also very distracting.
This is my first and last reflexive “purchase”.
Other than the ads, this may have been a decent game. They were too distracting changing throughout playing, so I couldn’t stand playing it for more than 5 minutes, and now I’ve uninstalled it.
Rating: 1 / 5
I was excited when I saw that it was free. I downloaded and installed the game but as soon as I hit play my computer crashed and gave me the blue screen of death. I thought it maybe something wrong with my computer, so I restart my computer and hit play again. Again I got the blue screen of death. Worst download of my life.
Rating: 1 / 5