You can't really plan that kind of thing on most of the stages, so pretty much the score comes out the same every time, and is thus pointless. Completion time doesn't factor in at all, although it darn well should, and while you can in theory get combination bonuses, in practice these come very rarely-your ball has to get trapped somewhere and bounce around forever, and maybe you throw in a few powerup lighting strikes and things in the meantime, before any combo bonus will appear. Scoring also isn't handled very well you get a score per stage, but it seems pretty fixed. It's all quite a bit of simple fun, and not all that hard, except that toward the end they start putting in annoying things like rows of unbreakable metal bollards right in front of your paddle that ding the ball right at you and out of play, causing you to lose a "life." Things like that feel a little cheap, and I think they could have come up with better ways to make the play risky. You can equip your paddle with machine guns, a bazooka, or lasers, get larger balls, have your balls split into three (and if you get another triple ball after that, then you've suddenly got nine balls in play simultaneously, etc), cause an earthquake that shakes up all the blocks in the level, bring on a wind storm that blows all the blocks toward one side of the screen, and "more." Smashing blocks of course sometimes unleashes powerups for you to grab, and although some of these don't seem to do much, like the one that turns day to night, and one is really annoying-the crazy ball that makes the ball move in an unpredictable way, argh-most of them are pretty fun. This is all miles and miles beyond what any game of this type that I've seen has ever attempted, and it looks great, runs for the most part without slowdown (there are slight minor hitches now and then), and looks gorgeous thanks to lush lighting and smooth, colorful textures that paint highly detailed 3D storybook scenes you just can't wait to smash to bits.
For instance, you may bash away the beach and island holding up a tower, which then topples over, strewing blocks or rocks across the playfield, which then have to be smashed up. The incorporated Havok physics engine ensures that the ball rebounds off this very irregular geometry in convincing fashion, and that the geometry crumbles and piles consistently.
Instead of just bouncing a nondescript ball off a nondescript paddle up the screen into colored blocks, Magic Ball has you bouncing a soccer-like ball off a rounded wooden paddle sort of thing off into the distance, where it smashes through highly detailed arrangements of either seascapes, pirates, ships and sharks, or forests, knights, castles, and dragons.
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Downloadable port of a five-year-old PC game, Magic Ball is far and away the most detailed ball-and-paddle (ie Arkanoid-see entry 748) game I've ever seen.
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