![]() ![]() While the orange pegs are your main goal to pass the standard levels, you’ll also encounter blue pegs that give points, purple which gives a massive amount of points, and the limited green pegs that when hit activate your Master’s special ability. There’s a ball catcher, a net of sorts, that if your ball lands in the automatically scrolling net, you gain a free ball miss and you lose a ball. As you launch your ball you give way to gravity and how the ball will bounce from peg to peg, clearing any it hits along the way to the bottom of the screen. Once all of the orange pegs are destroyed you can move on to the next level (though there’s a lot of reasons to play the boards again). You have a ball launcher at the top of the screen which you aim to clear all of the orange pegs off the screen with your limited ball count. If you’re a puzzle game addict or was a super fan of the original Peggle, it’s time to get an Xbox One for Peggle 2.įor those that have never played Peggle before, it’s a game that’s inspired by pachinko mixed with Plinko from The Price Is Right fame. ![]() You wouldn’t expect something like Peggle 2 to be in the new console’s launch window (as it’s exclusive to Xbox One for the time being) when you can get all of the other hardcore games, but it’s here, and I’m glad it is. Game mascot Bjorn returns in Peggle 2, but he brought with him some new friends (Masters) for you to play with and learn their new skills and master the new boards and very difficult challenges. At one point my friends and I actually had a few gatherings where the game of choice was Peggle. In all honesty, I probably would have simply been happy with a ‘map pack’ with new boards to play on, so I wasn’t sure what to expect with Peggle 2, but I was hoping they would go above and beyond for the long time coming sequel.Ī highly addictive game, Peggle was one of the few games that my wife actually asked me to turn on the Xbox for her so she could play it. It’s been five years since the original release of Peggle, and now we finally have the much anticipated sequel. When I hear “Ode to Joy”, I instantly think of Peggle and all the hours I put into that game over the years, as it was the victory song for when you successfully finished a level. ![]() You know a game has done something right when it associates itself with a song so well that when you hear it, you think of the game itself. ![]()
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