![]() ![]() So too does a horrible but mercifully rare glitch, which gallingly ended my highest Arcade score to date: even if your paddle is wedged against the side of the arena, balls hitting the very corner pixel of the play area get fired downwards and into oblivion. At the time of writing, the achievement for completing all 50 challenges remains unconquered on Xbox it takes the gloss off an otherwise superb timesink. Regardless of how hard I tried–and I’m a proud Breakout veteran (even if I always preferred Arkanoid)–I couldn’t, for the life of me, defeat “Juggler” and “Trickshot”, two time-based trials where the bricks encroach on you.įailing to clear even just the first row results in instant failure in under 20 seconds–an unfeasible demand, given the need to get slow-dropping power-ups in the first five seconds, ever-more acute angles, and Breakout: Recharged’s penchant for initially dropping the ball in a random direction, forcing constant restarts. However, of the 50, I was only able to complete 48 of them, and for good reason: the remaining two appear all but impossible, if not broken. While you’ll likely rattle through most of them first or second time, a few will prove much more tactical, and demand skill–my personal favorite being a combination of Space Invaders and carefully timed railgun shots, which upon defeating it, felt more satisfying than outright completing half the triple-A games that I’ve played this last five years.Ĭhallenge mode is where Breakout: Recharged truly shines. ![]() ![]() Ranging from self-defense and accuracy challenges through to simple survival or “break 40 of these”-style capers, they range from straightforward to outright devilish, depending on the level of skill and amount of luck you have at your disposal. With 50 different trials to unlock and play through, the standard rules of Breakout–in combination with Recharged’s nicely curated blocks–have been cleverly manipulated to create a wide range of frustratingly compelling, there-goes-another-entire-lunch-break tasks. Yet while its pick-up-and-play Arcade mode forms the main, somewhat repetitive challenge of Breakout: Recharged–albeit with the incentivization of high scores, egged on by global and friend-only leaderboards–the game’s real strength comes from its challenge mode. Breakout: Recharged's plethora of power-ups can turn the tide of the game in seconds. ![]()
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