MadCowBalls2

MadCowBalls2 is an arcade game about saving a city from the Mad Cow Balls by bouncing balls into bricks and destroying them. You move the SpaceWipe Defender with a mouse, keyboard or gamepad to control where the balls bounce. Rockets, a Plasma gun and a Gravity Beam are among the weapons you can use. Each time you fail to protect the city, you lose a life.

Levels and bricks

The level generator uses 12 different playfields, each with a grid of up to 555 points. A filter is applied based on how many levels you have finished in the game, then 145 different kinds of bricks are spread across the grid. Levels can have multiple layers, and the game has eight difficulty levels.

Skillpoints and upgrades

You gain a skillpoint for each level you finish, which you can spend to unlock power-ups and upgrades. There are over 60 power-ups, over 40 upgrades and 10 kinds of balls. Unlocking a kind of ball allows its associated power-up to spawn when you destroy a brick. You also earn a bonus skillpoint for every 10,000 points scored in a single level, and playing at a high difficulty adds skillpoints before the first level. Without upgrades, the game plays nearly like old classics; upgrades can shift it from casual play toward more of an action shooter.

Cow progress

Completing tasks such as spinning the ball, collecting multi bonuses and destroying robots advances Cow progress. Completing these tasks unlocks all eight difficulty levels and secret option menus. The game also includes multi bonuses and achievements that unlock additional content and options.

Game options

You can change the visual and music themes in the options menu. The game includes Cheat, Debug, Window/Fullscreen, Autoplay, Screensaver, Music Player and Arcade modes. The graphics setting is tested when you first run the game, then set according to how fast the game can render; you can also change it in the options menu or lower it in Debug mode.