Egypt Ball:

In Brief:
Egypt Ball is a 14 year old 3D Breakout game with an Egyptian Theme. It's virtually the same as the game Gem Ball: Ancient Legends which we were given March 2007 (same Theme, same board, same bat same bricks and same developer {Urse Games}).

You can see several in-game videos of game play HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE & HERE. The last video is of Gem Ball: Ancient Legends. I’ve included this to show you the similarities between the two games. As mentioned above and in the review below. They both have the same level designs. The only differences being the two difficulty settings and the two modes of play in gem ball compared to the single difficulty and single mode in Egypt Ball. You can see Gem Ball HERE.

Introduction:

Levels are diverse, moves are extremely swift, the difficulty level increases as you progress. Egypt Ball is an arcade game with a puzzle core. The aim of the game is to destroy the bricks with a ball and to reveal the secrets of ancient Egypt. Attempt to achieve this by completing each of the 100 levels in the best time as well as unveil codes.

Egypt Ball combines catching, shooting and points scoring using a limited number of bat and balls that you are given - the colour of these balls is important because it provides you with additional strength. Move your bat to reflect the ball in play to destroy the walls that cover gems and other treasures of Egypt's ancient civilization. For every 20 gold coins earned you are awarded an extra life. Catch the falling gems as they give you extra points. The number of bonuses that help you achieve the above goals is generous and includes the ability to slow down the balls, in play, expand your bat, speed up and get an anvil for better strikes as you progress through the early levels you unlock more bonuses such as safe rays, darts fire and fireballs thrower, a multicolour ball that always helps you to get rid of various bricks quicker and a Mega laser.

Significantly edited and added to reference accessed HERE. 24th Nov 2018, reposted 9th November 2021.

The Game:
Egypt Ball is basically a cut down version of Gem Ball: Ancient Legends, which we were given 11 years ago (March 2007). The level design is exactly the same; the main differences are that Gem Ball has three difficulty levels and two modes, Adventure and Arcade. Whereas Egypt Ball only has one difficulty setting and one mode, which is the Arcade part of Gem Ball. You can get Gem Ball totally free via FreeGamePick HERE. FreeGamePick does the same as MyPlayCity with respect to your browser opening when you first install the game and when you close the game down. There are no toolbars installed.

I've checked back to when it was originally given away (March 14th, 2007) and have reposted my original comment. I've also checked images of Gem Ball via Google images and can confirm that today’s game has the same level designs from the arcade mode of Gem Ball, the same power-ups and the same graphics. The only things different are difficulty levels and the adventure mode has been removed from the original game then repackaged as Egypt Ball. Apart from those changes, this is basically the same game as the one we were given 11 years ago, so to save time I'm going to repost my original comment with some slight changes and include additional information about the game.

Egypt Ball has the usual number of decorative bricks of different types used in the construction of the various levels, there is also a wide selection of balls that can help in varying degrees. Some balls will only destroy bricks that match their colour; others can destroy every type of brick with or without the help of an explosion; while there are also special balls that destroy everything in their path, including walls or other seemingly permanent obstructions, or have the ability to fire arrows in every direction.

Egypt Ball has its fair share of power-ups and other goodies. The power-ups fall at regular intervals and include extra lives, those that enlarge or shrink your paddle; allow you to hold and aim a ball at a specific spot and triple the number of balls currently in play. There are also useful brick breaking weapons added to the paddle such as the Darts Fire and Mega Laser. Some power-ups affect the ball as mentioned above; for example, the explosive ball, power ball, multicolour ball and shooting ball. With Egypt Ball, you can have so many balls in motion that it can become rather confusing and makes for hectic paddle re-alignment. In such cases as this, it does help that the balls in Egypt Ball do not react when they meet each other. Rather than be deflected and change directions, they continue on their normal path. Personally I would have liked to have seen an option where you could turn deflections on, or include deflections between balls in a separate difficulty level.

As well as the variety of power-ups that are released by destroyed bricks, you can also collect jewels and gold coins. The jewels add to your score, depending upon the type, while an extra life is exchanged for every twenty coins you collect. Another way to gain an extra life is to catch the Ankh (a key-like cross symbol) when it becomes available in some of the scenes.

One feature of Egypt Ball that should surely appeal to many players will be the Mega laser. This weapon appears just before a scene is denuded of bricks. It allows the player to quickly destroy any remaining items or continue using their skill at controlling the ball to finish off the job.

Edited reference by Whiterabbit; originally posted March 2007, reposted with additional information by Whiterabbit-uk 3rd Nov 2018

Conclusion:
Egypt Ball is an excellent 3D breakout game that in my opinion is worth downloading (I am biased because breakouts have always been one of my favourite arcade games ever since the very fist one was created back in the 1970's.

Notes on Security
I scanned a zipped copy of the installed game using Virus Total and it found 2 hits (Jiangmin & Zillya) from 59 antimalware engines. These two antimalware engines that are amongst only several antimalware suites that often tag MyPlayCity Games compared to most better known and more reliable antimalware engines; so, it's very very very likely to be a false positive. (I downloaded the game and have had no issues security or otherwise)

The downloaded executable possibly/may include some low level adware that opens your browser once to MyPlayCity's home page after the game has installed and also places a few shortcuts onto your desktop; these shortcuts can be safely deleted once the game has been installed).

The MyPlayCity installation does NOT inject any malware into your system. When your browser is opened to MyPlayCity's home page following the games installation, it earns MyPlayCity games some money, part of which is given to the developer of the game for allowing the game to be given away free. The giveaway version of MyPlayCity games version has had most of the adware disabled.

You can see the results of the scan via the following link:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/cee942056668638cdf167e5cf2776919476a3c56bade6bb5b4f0d2806b697235?nocache=1