Original Author: Spirit of Water

Credits: Jagex

Date of first draft: 12/9/2008

Dates of edits:
- 19/02/2009 Added to website.

Official Description

Brick-a-Brac is a classic bat-and-ball game in the FunOrb style. There are 30 single-player levels of various design, filled with a wealth of power-ups, moving bricks, switches and teleporters - the perfect place to start racking up some Highscores. Then there’s the multiplayer, consisting of hotseat multiplayer for 2 people, or up to 5-player Rated and Unrated games. The multiplayer game is a race against time (and your opponents) to destroy as many bricks as possible, while sending your rivals some nasty power-ups to put them off their own brick destroying.

First Impression

At a first glance, the game can look quite hard when a player sees so many bricks on front of them that need destroying, but actually, they’ll go down so quickly that the more a person gets, the more enjoyable the game will be for them! With so many game modes, the game looks quite enjoyable.

Gameplay

The game offers so much action and entertainment that it must be fun for nearly everyone, not just top players! As players are able to get rid of bricks through such variety of methods, it offers different ways of finding the game fun. There are such easy methods of destroying the bricks, making it so much fun! So much pressure can be put on you when the screen starts to flash when you’re in with a chance of loosing, but if you keep taking them bricks down at a fast speed, you’ll recover. The relief of being back in the game can add to your excitement.

Graphics

This game offers quite good graphics. It is presented well and the graphics are generally good for the game. There are no downsides for this part of the game.

Music

Favoritism of the music of this game varies. The music isn’t casual, but it’s jollier in a tune which could be considered kiddish. Nevertheless, it goes quite good with the game and the voices of the men are quite amusing.

Recommended Skills

The recommended skills for players to enjoy this game fully are to be able to make quick, fast reactions and to be able to make good estimations of where the ball in the game may land based on the speed that it is going at and where it has been.

When you’ve played the game for about 3-4 times and you’ve got used to it, you should find that you’re able to get the bricks down faster and discover some new tactics for you to get ahead.

Rating

8/10