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Have You Played… Shatter?Smashed it, pet

Smashed it, pet

You’d think you couldn’t do much with the brick-breaking genre after Arkanoid and Alleyway, but in 2010Shattercame along and smashed that theory to bits.

The biggest change to the formula is that you can manipulate the ball’s movement beyond just twatting it. Your super-powered paddle is able to push and pull the ball, Jedi-style, so you can actually Roberto Carlos the bastard into a cluster if you’re good enough. And you’ll need to be good enough if you want to take down the game’s block-y bosses. Yeah, it has bosses.

I’m a sucker for a game that fiddles with the tried-and-trusted. Shatter does that and then some.