The Ins and Outs of Bubble Shooter
Bubble Shooter has been around for years. Similar in gameplay to Tetris, it’s a match three game where you have to fight the advancing wall of coloured bubbles with your shooter. The longer you hold out, the more points you get and the higher you go through the levels. In order to win, you must clear all the bubbles away and leave yourself with an empty screen.
There are coloured bubbled arranged above your shooter in a block. The shooter is “given” a coloured bubble of its own, which you must aim at bubbles of identical colour. If your bubble hits another bubble of the same colour, and that bubble is connected to a third bubble (or more) of that colour, they all burst and the wall retreats. If you hit a bubble of a different colour with your own, the bubble you fired becomes part of the wall unless you are able to burst it again with another bubble from your shooter.
Bubble Shooter is extraordinarily simple (like Tetris) and unbelievably addictive. Its massive online popularity means there are countless versions of it out there to play, all with the exact same gameplay at their heart but with plenty of different themes and appearances. In some versions, the bubbles are replaced by other objects, even famous people. Mostly, though, the only real difference between any one version of Bubble Shooter and another is the backdrop, which is styled in some way that reflects the altered name of the game variant.
One recent variant is called Star Gazer, and requires that you shoot stars with a telescope rather than shooting bubbles with a bubble gun. Though there’s no difference other than a slight change in atmosphere. The gameplay remains exactly the same.
Bubble Shooter has some advanced variations too – still Bubble Shooter at heart but with extra skill levels tucked into the mix. Speedy Shooter, which gives you the option to choose Strategy or Arcade versions as well as a basic Bubble game, means you never get bored – and more often than not end up frustrated and playing long into the night – a sure sign of a great game!
At the heart of the Bubble Shooter game, as has been noted before, is the simple gameplay we used to get from old arcade titles. Stripped of modern processing power and graphics technology, old school games epitomise the fundamental levels of gaming endeavour – manoeuvring shapes into position against an increasingly difficult landscape, strategizing and trying to aim while time ticks down around you.
The key goal of the Bubble Shooter game is to achieve high scores by knocking all bubbles off the board. This too is an old school arcade thing. The playing field is level and the goal is always the same – it’s the style, speed and skill with which you can complete the game that really sets you apart from the competition!
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