If you were a fan of the classic Arkanoid, you’ll love this game for sure, since its resemblance. However, the AquaSphere has done a lot more work in interface design and environment development. As you could guess from its name, this game develops underwater. You are in a submarine ship (AquaSlide), which has a big front bumper. At the beginning you’ll be shooting an “aquasphere” which will hit something in the current scenario, coming back towards you. You’ll have to place your ship in front of the aquasphere in order to keep it bouncing all over the place. The whole idea is to destroy everything by hitting with the ball, until you open the treasure chest. Opening the treasure chest (by hitting it with the ball) will lead you to the next level.
There are a lot of complements (power-up) for your ship to make it more powerful or secure. Let’s take a look at some of them:
- Aqua Magnet: collect it to hold onto the AquaSphere when it touches the AquaSlider.
- Aqua Repellent: collect it to get rid of perilous enemies.
- Aqua Shield: collect it to protect from dangerous enemies.
- Aqua Shot: collect it and blast everything away with the left mouse button.
- Barrier: it will prevent you from losing the AquaSphere for 1 time if you miss hitting it.
- Multiball: collect it to multiply the AquaSphere into more balls.
When you enter the game you reach the Main Menu, with the following options:
- Start Game: Begin a new AquaSphere game. You’ll be asked for a player name.
- High Scores: View the best scores achieved.
- Options: View game options and adjust settings, such as sound volume, music volume, mouse speed, full screen, and acceleration settings.
- Help: Launch AquaSphere help screens.
- Exit: Exit the game and return to desktop.
Once you are playing, you can press the ESC button on your keyboard to pause the game and view the in-game menu, with the following options:
- Resume: Resume playing AquaSphere.
- Help: Launch AquaSphere help screens.
- Options: View game options and adjust settings.
- Restart Level: to start playing the current level all over again.
- Main Menu: to abandon the game and go back to the Main Menu.
You can try this game for 60 minutes before you buy the licensed version. If you like it, you can buy this game for only 19.95 dollars, right from the Oberon Media Game Center, on the Web
About the systems requirements, here you have a list to check out:
- Windows 2K, XP or Vista
- Pentium III 1000 or higher with 256 MB RAM
- 140 MB free hard disk space
- 3D graphics card with 16 MB RAM
- DirectX 8.1 or higher
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