Brick Breaker: Overdrive

SIX PADDLES. ONE ARENA. NO MERCY. Six paddles sit around one ring. You take a seat, five bots take the rest, and everyone shares the middle. Break your own shield to push forward, knock rivals back down, and be the last one standing — or the top score when the clock runs out. HOLD YOUR COURT The bricks in front of you are yours. Break them for points. Let a ball past your paddle and you lose a life. ASCEND Break through your own shield and your paddle moves forward onto the ring, where the big scores are — and where everyone can reach you. GET KNOCKED BACK Your shield up top takes eight hits. When it falls, so do you: back home, fresh serve, try again. SEVEN POWER-UPS • SUPPLY — one more ball, served the moment you catch it. • WIDE — a wider paddle, for a while. • REPAIR — mends your shield up top. Caught at home it is one extra life. • FIREBALL — your ball hits twice as hard for its next eight bricks. • BOMB — your ball blasts the bricks around each one it breaks. • ROCKET — hold, drag onto a rival, let go. Up top they lose their shield; at home they lose a life. • SHRINK RAY — aimed the same way. Their paddle is half its width for twelve seconds. TWO WAYS TO WIN TIMED HIGH SCORE — four minutes, ten lives, most points wins. LAST PLAYER STANDING — ten lives, elimination, the last seat standing wins. BUILT FOR ONE THUMB Drag to steer. Push sideways to aim. Let go to fire. Five difficulties, Very Easy to Very Hard, and a first match starts on Medium. An interactive tutorial for starters is played on demand. WHERE WE ARE Right now it is you against five bots. Online multiplayer — six real people in one ring — is being built. No dates promised: it ships when it plays right.