We've been on edge ever since Eidos announced its plans to publish Nervous Brickdown, Arkedo Studios' modernization of the Breakout genre. Much like how Tetris DS made block dropping seem fresh again, this high-strung title breathes new life into the break-a-brick formula with creative modes and a style overhaul.
IGN has a hands-on preview and some new videos of Nervous Brickdown's gameplay variations, and they're totally stressing us out for reals. In one of the game's ten distinct modes, you guide a paddle and ball through scrolling shmup stages -- making it a paddle-em-up, maybe? Drifting ghosts haunt the stages, hindering your progress, so you'll have to blow into the DS' mic to push them away. Another theme challenges you to manage a platformer on one screen while simultaneously playing Breakout on the other.
Just talking about it is enough to make our stomachs all queasy.
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5-21-2007 @ 12:58PM
Nycteris said...
Speaking of puzzle games... PopCap, can you port Peggle to DS please? :3
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5-21-2007 @ 2:16PM
strider_mt2k said...
I would like to add my voice but ask for a "Clubhouse Games" style casual games collection.
Like ohhh,
Zuma Deluxe
Bejeweled 2
Incadia
Luxor 2
Bricks of Egypt
Rise of Atlantis
That kind of stuff.
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