Shatter

Quite simply one of the best games on the PS3. Every PS3 owner needs this game in their collection.

Shatter is a fiendishly well-crafted game available from the Playstation Store for a little under ten bucks where you spend hours smashing blocks and absorbing vast amounts of neurologically-stimulating graphical flair and ambience.

For eight dollars, you simply can't do any better than Shatter. It, in all honesty, is about as perfect a game as you'll see anywhere.

A delight from beginning to end...Shatter stands right up there with Breakout and Arkanoid as one of (if not the) best brick-breaking games ever made.

For the cost and time involved (it won’t take more than a few minutes to download), Shatter is an absolute must-buy. No ifs, ands or buts about it.

Shatter mixes classic shooter gameplay with fresh new physics based control mechanics, beautiful graphics, an incredible original soundtrack.

Shatter adds a lot of flavor to a traditional block breaker game. With definite influence from Geometry Wars and other HD remakes, Shatter is a must buy for almost anyone.

Shatter is a wonderfully addictive title which improves on the formula set out by games such as Breakout in every way. If you buy this title you certainly wont regret it.

Shatter is a refreshingly unique take on a classic genre. The visuals, music, and gameplay combine to provide a simple yet engrossing experience that will please casual and old-school gamers.

It's not very long, it's not very hard, but the new clever game mechanics and awesome retro inspired music soundtrack adds an incredible amount of fun to Shatter - The greatest Breakout-style game created so far!

Good, well-priced DLC support can help extend the game’s life and appeal, so Shatter is a good leaderboard competition game with friends for now much like Super Stardust HD and Geometry Wars before it.

For a sub-10 dollar game ($7.99 USD), Shatter is totally worth your cash and time. It is beautiful, unique, and most of all fun.

Shatter is without a doubt the best reinterpretation of the Breakout formula; an impressive arcade that unfortunately ends too soon, but overall is still one of the best exclusive PSN games of the entire catalogue.

Shatter is the rare game that takes a concept that's been around nearly as long as gaming itself and completely revolutionizes it. Simply put, Shatter is the new standard that all other block-breaking games will have to meet.

The best fiver you'll ever spend on PSN. [Issue#183, p.83]

For a price of $7.99, this download-only title provides an entertaining, but short, gameplay experience. The few hours that you will spend with this game, however, will definitely be entertaining.

Taken as a whole, Shatter combines well-thought-out gameplay with a highly polished and immersive aesthetic. Only a particular type of person need apply, perhaps, but if you’re into Geometry Wars or other score-based titles, Shatter should keep you satisfied.

Shatter is a great game, and well worth a play.

For those that dig Shatter's depth and style, the rabbit hole goes pretty deep: it offers plenty of strategy with its vacuum system, and the variety of levels and smooth graphics, sound and music make for a great value for many gamers at only $7.99 on PSN.

A polished Breakout-clone with very interesting gravitation effects. It's a bit too easy, though - there's too many extra lives. [Dec 2009]

Shatter is best-suited to people who have a friends list full of scoreboard fiends. That's what'll bring replay value to a game that's only going to take you a couple of hours to see in its entirety. But even if you're not that type of player, Shatter still has enough style and action in it to be worth checking out.

Arkanoid is finally superseded as the best Breakout clone around in this enjoyable retro update.

Shatter is brick breaking at its best--simple, innovative, and beautiful.

It has a perfect price point at just £4.79/$5.99, and represents a worthy successor to Super Stardust HD as possibly the most addictive game on PSN.

Shatter is an engrossing, smart, beautifully conceived and executed arcade game, but it doesn't quite have the score-racking purity of purpose that makes a Geometry Wars, Pac-Man CE or Out Run Online Arcade so endlessly compelling. Once you've beaten it, which won't take long, you'll move on - but it's a blissful spell while it lasts, an absolute steal at £4.79.

It is a simple game, and the news won’t make you redesign the whole idea of destroying blocks, but as a whole Shatter becomes a pleasant surprise.

I could mention the razor-sharp graphics, cleanly minimalist design and absolutely phenomenal soundtrack, but there's really no point... Shatter is easily one of the best offerings available on the PSNetwork even without taking any of those things into account.

Take old Arcanoid put it in hi-res graphics make sophisticated improvements to the game mechanics and you got Shatter! Relax and enjoy there should be a byline to this game. [Sept 2009]

This is right up there along side Trash Panic as the best the Store currently has to offer in the sub five quid range. [Oct 2009, p.121]

A new instant classic. Arkanoid with a modern physic engine that add cool ingredients to the game formula. The graphics are shiny and the concept is brilliant.

Another great PSN title. [Oct 2009, p.83]

It's a fine interpretation of the old brick-breaker style, and it should keep you entertained, even if it's only once or twice.