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Peggle on the iPhone is actually fun. It doesn’t sound like fun to most men as it sounds too close to something they really don’t want to experience, but it’s nothing like that – in fact, it’s winning combination of intuitive gameplay, straightforward objectives along with multi-player makes it a great game to download and play on your iPhone.

Unlike many game updates, Peggle doesn’t rely on changes and distillation to make it a worthwhile iPhone game – it in fact, avoids that concept like the plague and instead relies on giving the public exactly what they want and exactly what they expect to get out of a well known game – the good old experience of knocking pegs down with some balls. If you liked it before, you’ll continue to like it.

You’re given ten balls and ten times that amount in onscreen pegs to destroy. You use the touchscreen to set the trajectory and with a quick press of the fire button you launch your weapon, taking out all pegs in the way. There are more precise methods of aiming the cannon, such as the click wheel but the touch and fire setup actually works well.

Luckily, you don’t need to attack all the pegs on the screen, which are primarily blue in color – all you need to attack are the pegs colored orange which incidentally is a color that provokes aggression. Once you take them all out with your ten shot cannon, you can move on to the next level to cut down any other orange pegs that dare to stand in your way. Of course, it’s actually possible to take out all the pegs, but it may just be enough for some people to eradicate the orange menace.

Peggle also gives you some green pegs, which can offer various bonuses that differ from level to level. While it looks like it is a game powered by chance, there’s actually some reason behind the cannon rhyme. You need to plan out your ten shots, clearing the right pegs to open up a clear shot to the orange pegs and to victory. It is this, along with the special powers that you can get that makes it more that a random cannon shot game but one that actually requires some skill to play.

Peggle is a game filled with fun features and multiplayer, one that fills up the value bar way up. It even rewards achievement with some iPhone trophies, bragging rights for those kinds of people. Once Peggle gets its pegs in you, you can find yourself stuck on the game for hours at a time.