Ballistic (Game Boy Color)

GameSpot editors' review

• CNET editors' rating: 2.5 stars OK
  Detailed editors' rating
  Overall score: 5.6 (2.5 stars)

• Reviewed by:
  Ben Stahl
• Reviewed on: 01/28/2000
• Updated on: 04/28/2000
• Released on: 10/31/1999
• Originally published on GameSpot: Ballistic (Game Boy Color) Review

If there were one genre that handheld systems are naturally inclined to, it would be the puzzle genre. Simply put, puzzle games focus on the gameplay - they don't really need astounding graphics or sound and therefore lend themselves well to the limited capabilities of handhelds. Ballistic is a perfect example of this - a fairly new and entertaining puzzle element that rests behind only modest graphics and sound.

When you play Ballistic you're reminded of Bust-A-Move - in both games you're a cannon that shoots different colored spheres at other spheres of the same color to eliminate them from the puzzle. Where the games differ is in the actual presentation. Instead of sitting the cannon at the bottom of your standard puzzle-gaming pit, you actually sits at the center of a spiral. The string of spheres moves along the spiral toward the center and effectively kills you when it reaches the cannon. As in most puzzle games, the key to preventing your doom is to start long chains and therefore eliminate large numbers of balls at once. You'll also get the help of various power-ups, such as the bomb piece (which eliminates one color of balls completely) and the snail piece (which slows down the rate that the string moves toward the center). But there are also things to deter you, such as covered parts of the spiral that inhibit shots, as well as tornadoes that deflect balls.

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