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''Airburst'' is a
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developed by Strange Flavour and published by Freeverse for
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. On October 25, 2007, it was announced for
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game for the
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. The Xbox 360 release was canceled but the game was available for testing on Partnernet, the private Xbox 360 developer site. Partnernet was shut down around 2017 after the release of the Xbox 1.


Gameplay

The game has been described as "an inverted version of ''
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''", 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
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as ''Airburst Extreme''. There are four playable
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s, and six additional characters (four new
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s and two new
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and featured characters from the games ''AirBurst'' and ''AirBurst: Extreme''.


See also

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References


Reviews


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


External links


Official siteStrange FlavourFreeverseXBLA press release
2001 video games Action games Cancelled Xbox 360 games Classic Mac OS games Freeverse Inc. games MacOS games Multiplayer and single-player video games Strange Flavour games Video games developed in the United Kingdom {{paddle-videogame-stub