Peggle Review

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Information

Released: March 11th, 2009
Developers: Pop Cap
Publishers: Pop Cap Games
Genre: Arcade / 800 MSP
Platforms: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC, iOS
Players: Single player / 1-4 Online / 2 player duel
ESRB Rating: E

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Synopsis

Peggle is basically a pinball game that you can play with friends or by yourself. When you play this, you will play as 10 characters (Bjorn, Claude, Kimmy Lightning, Lorn Cinderbottom, Master Hu, Kat Tut, Tula, Renfield, Splork, and Warren) You start out as Bjorn and you work your way up to the highest character. Each end every character ha a special power that he or she can give up when you're using that character. Once you beat every character (5 levels for each character) - you unlock a trophy in the Peggle Institute. Once you beat every character and unlock every trophy in the Peggle Institute, you get an achievement to show that you've completed the game from start to finish.

Synopsis Rating: 10

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Gameplay

When you're playing, every level you will have blue, orange, green, and purple pegs. Your objective in this is to not only beat every level, but within every level, you have to get rid of every orange peg. Getting rid of all these orange pegs allows you to advance to the next level. Hitting any purple peg gives you a huge point bonus. And hitting a blue peg just gives you 10 points. Once you get high scores, there is a bar on the left hand side of your screen that will rise every time you get points, and when you fill it up, you get a free ball. However, there is a catch to this game. You only get 10 balls to complete the level by getting rid of all of the orange pegs. Use them wisely and don't waste them just to get points.

Gameplay Rating: 10

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Graphics

Honestly, for an arcade game that only costs 800 MSP, it has pretty good graphics. I like them because when you're playing and you go to shoot the ball, whichever character you chose, the eyes will follow the ball. You can just tell that the developers have put some time into this game unlike all the other arcade games. It's definitely worth the 800 MSP.

Graphics Rating: 9

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Characters

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Bjorn - Allows you to trace the ball and see where it will go

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Claude - Puts flippers at the bottom left and right of screen to hit the ball back up

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Jimmy Lightning - Throws an extra ball after you lose the one

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Kat Tut - Extends the bucket at the bottom using a pyramid

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Lord Cinderbottom - Shoots a flaming ball of fire

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Master Hu - Uses the zen ball the increase performance

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Renfield - Throws in a spooky ball when you lose you main ball

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Splork - Destroys all pegs around the green one

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Tula - Destroys all orange pegs around the green one that you hit

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Warren - Uses the magic hat and can choose a random powerup

In my opinion, I think that Master Hu is the best to use because is you don't make a very good decision, he will basically correct you and give you a better shooting option - and it usually leads to getting more points and possibly an extra ball or two.

It's a pretty fun game and will definitely keep you interested in the levels because there are so many to complete.

Overall Rating for Peggle

9.6/10