Ballance Game Free Download For Windows 7

Ballance gives a literal meaning to ‘being the ball’ as you navigate its ethereal, maze-like 3D worlds using an inanimate ball instead of a character. The unusual concept is nicely executed and enjoyable. The object of the game is to steer a ball using your keyboard across twelve vertigo-inspiring levels that become increasingly difficult as you progress. You start off the game with a tutorial level explaining the game’s very basic mechanics and the game’s pace slowly picks up from there. The final levels are darn difficult, requiring careful thought and surgical-like manoeuvrings to solve.

These levels take full advantage of the game’s physics model, giving it new life. Reinventing the ball Placed throughout the maps are points where you can change your ball to one of three available materials – paper, wood and rock. Shifting between them equals to changing your body mass, adding new depth to puzzle solving. Paper is lightweight and easy to control; rock is heavy and cumbersome while wood is somewhere in between the two extremes. Depending on particular circumstances, each material can either be an asset or a liability.

A heavy rock is powerful enough to knock a clean path through obstacles but is too heavy to cross a bridge, climb a steep surface or descend an incline without flying off the map. Paper is light enough to be blown upwards by fans and can climb some very steep walls but lacks the mass to manipulate other objects. Certain parts of each level will require you to switch between materials in order to progress. The puzzles in each level are based on the physics engine and solving them takes reflexes as well as common sense. Passing these levels always seemed reasonable thanks to strategically placed checkpoints that save your progress before and after the more difficult bits of each level. You control the entire action with a total of only six keys, four of which are directional while the remaining two let you change the camera views.

The controls are so simple and basic that anyone can handle them, which is why I find it strange that Ballance doesn’t go that extra mile to offer gamepad support (or a mouse view for that matter). Regardless, the default camera controls work well enough. You have the ability to switch between four side angles and one overhead view for a better look at your immediate surroundings.

Some parts of the later game have large-scale puzzles with multiple intertwined paths that become confusing, making me wish the game had an automap function to better understand my surroundings. But these are exceptions to an otherwise simple, functional interface. Ballance is both simple and fun. It’s a shame how a level editor was never added as this would have surely prolonged its lifespan.

To my understanding, the official website www.ballance.org hosted several free level downloads and the game itself before it was shut down sometime after 2008. In either case, German developer Cyparade reinvented the ball in this creative puzzle game and it’s worth a try.

System Requirements: Windows 98, 64 MB RAM, 2MB Video, 120 MB HDD Space.

Ballance Full PC Game Overview. Topway dzhojstik drajver. Ballance Download Free Full Game is a 3D puzzle computer game for Windows. It was developed by Cyparade, published by Atari and first released in Europe on 2 April 2004.

Remember those wooden toys where you had to move a ball all the way through a labyrinth by moving the whole scenario and not the ball itself? Well then, Balance is just the digital version of those good old pastimes. Use your mouse to tilt the board and therefore make the ball slide along the labyrinth's corridors. The game includes a wide variety of increasingly difficult boards, sometimes even with extra balls or other special obstacles. Balance also allows you to share your records and replay your levels.