Pandora Bricks promises thrilling four-play for mobile owners

As you'll have noticed, there's no shortage of Breakout clones available for mobile. It's partly because the mechanics of hitting a ball with a bat to destroy bricks suit the confines of a mobile screen, and partly because they sell like hot cakes.

Pandora Bricks is another in a long line of bat-and-ball games to hit your phone, but it's at least trying something different, by sticking four bats on the screen, two running up and down the sides, and two moving across the top and bottom.

In solo mode, you control the bats at the top and bottom, while your mobile controls the ones at the sides. There's also a multiplayer mode, using Bluetooth, in which a nearby friend takes over the mobile's role. In the latter mode there are 30 levels to play through, plus three bosses to defeat.

As you'd expect, there are power-ups to collect along the way, including multi-balls, mallets, caterpillars and magnetic fields. There's also a plot concerning a battle between Chaos and Orde, an ultimate being called Enki, and a hero called, erm, Gilgamesh. We'll need to brush up on our mythology.

Plot aside, it's the quad-bat system and multiplayer mode that may mark Pandora Bricks out as an original addition to the Breakout genre. We'll have a review for you soon.