Here are some quick points, a “Quick Fix” if you will about Peggle on the XBLA for those of you who don’t like reading long, drawn out essays on such subject matter:
Good:
+ Extremely polished, faithful port of the successful PC game
+ The controls are as good as you can expect considering the transition from mouse to gamepad. Never need to fight to get a good shot position. Innate ability to lounge in bed while playing is great.
+ Online multiplayer duel mode is a superb addition, making you wonder why it wasn’t offered on the PC
+ Peg Party mode is a blast. 4 player online multiplayer is amazing. The fact that your opponents’ shots don’t affect your score like in duel mode makes it worth the price of admission alone.
+ Challenges and achievements and especially the fact that there’s a specific achievement for completing all challenges make the content soar with added value that I never felt in the original Peggle. If I had trouble with a challenge I could just skip it and never come back to it, but now with the lure of an achievement I want to try that tough challenge for the 50th time
+ Leaderboards provide endless opportunity for peggle diehards to keep playing long after everything is accomplished that the game offers
Bad:
- Despite the controls being as good as you can expect, it still doesn’t compare to the precision of a mouse.
- I could be wrong, but I don’t think there’s a way to play an offline peg party which is too bad. 4 player offline would be scrumptious.
- Leaderboards are unfortunately biased towards a few specific maps because of peg position in a few facets of the leaderboards. Even affects adventure mode scoring since the last level in particular must be perfectly tricked out to probably have any chance of getting that high score.
- It would be nice if there was some way it could be arranged that adventure mode plays could be saved at any time, simply because it is tedious to have to go all the way back to the beginning if you feel like trying for an even higher score.
-Multiplayer is great in any shape or form for peggle, and despite the fun of a peg party, you still have to wait for everyone to take a shot and you can’t watch them take their turns after you’re done with yours or anything. A little impersonal and possibly allows for cheap shots to be taken advantage of that you would otherwise be able to decide if you want to play with such a hardcore peggle pro or not.
- Challenges in particular are amazingly frustrating and extremely difficult at times. It sucks when such an otherwise ridiculously fun game can make you so upset that want to throw your controller at the TV
Undecided:
~ Although it costs less, the fact that Peggle Dual Shot for the DS existed even before this released makes me wonder why this couldn’t have been done differently. Both Peggle and Peggle Nights could have been released on the same day, or the whole package could have been 20$, or they could have even added the 11th lightning critter to this version or just something other than the justifiable cheaper price for half a product. At least tell me when Peggle Nights is coming out?
~ Where’s Peggle PS3? Peggle iPhone? Peggle PSP? Peggle toaster? Announce something already! Need more Peggle!
The verdict: Go out and buy this right now, or consider the cheaper PC alternative if you don’t care about multiplayer. Don’t forget it’s coming out sometime for the iPhone and PS3 and is available for the DS right now, so take that into consideration, but if you’ve never played Peggle, you need to start playing yesterday.
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