''Airburst'' is a video game developed by

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and published by Freeverse for Mac OS. On October 25, 2007, it was announced for Xbox Live Arcade game for the Xbox 360. There is currently no release date for the Xbox 360 release but the game is available for testing on Partnernet, the private Xbox 360 developer site.

Gameplay

The game has been described as "an inverted version of '' Pong''", in which players divert a "deadly chainsaw-bladed burster ball" with a paddle towards other players' platforms, which are made of

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. Each player is armed with a bat which can be used to deflect the ball away from their balloons and towards their opponents. There are also a host of power-ups that affect gameplay. The XBLA version uses

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for online play.

''AirBurst Extreme''

An enhanced version was released in 2004 for Mac OS X as ''Airburst Extreme''. There are four playable characters, and six additional characters (four new

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s and two new

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s) in ''Airburst Extreme''.

In other media

On July 27, 2014, an animated short named ''AirBurst: The Soda of Doom'' screened at the San Diego Children's Film Festival at San Diego Comic-Con and featured characters from the games ''AirBurst'' and ''AirBurst: Extreme''.

References

Reviews

ATPM.com
(Original)
Inside Mac Games
(Extreme)

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