Ricochet Lost Worlds

Ricochet Lost Worlds features: fully updated, brick busting action; ingenious new specialty bricks; an engaging new ring game; 160 levels that come alive with motion; create new levels with the Level Editor!

### Release date

PC: 8th April 2004
Xbox: 4th November 2004
Mac: 27th October 2005
Linux: via Steam Play

### Rating

PC: 83.6/100Mac: 76/100
Xbox: 20/100

## System requirements

Windows Compatible System
Pentium III 500 Mhz Processor or better
64 MBs of RAM
Keyboard and Mouse
Microsoft DirectX 2.0 or greater.

Ricochet Lost Worlds (also known as Rebound Lost Worlds by some game distributors) is a breakout-style game developed by Reflexive Entertainment and is the second game in the Ricochet series, a sequel to Ricochet Xtreme. It was released on 8th April 2004 for Windows, 9th November 2004 for Xbox and 27th October 2005 for Mac. In 22th of April 2004, Reflexive Entertainment released an extension to the game called **Reflexive B Sides**, which introduces 26 new rounds. The roundset is rated 5 stars.

* *Reflexive is proud to release its first add on to Ricochet Lost Worlds. Reflexive B Sides is 26 exciting new rounds that you can get for Free!*

## Ratings

The game usually scored very well from ratings on the PC and Mac version, but scored the lowest on Xbox.

## Controls

 Left Mouse Button (M1)
 Space Bar
 Esc
 Pause

## Ships Available

Ricochet Lost Worlds has yet another pair of 6 ships at your disposal when you create a new user to play the game with.

### Changing your ship

In this version, you're able to change your ship by going in High Scores, selecting the unique player whose ship you want to change, press the "Edit Player" button from the bottom-left side of the screen and select another ship. An annonymous guest cannot have its' ship changed.

*" If you click Options and then High Scores you will see a window entitled Statistics. Now move your mouse cursor over any player (other than Anonymous Guest) and click to select that player. Next click the “Edit Player” button at the bottom of the screen. A menu will appear that allows you to change the paint job on the ship for that player. Each member of your family can have a different paint job if you like. " - a portion from **Editing/Deleting a Player and Choosing a Paint Job** from the game's manual.*

## Points

This game, like all the other 4 Ricochet games, uses a point system to measure how good you are. This table shows how u can get or lose points in Ricochet Lost Worlds. Do note that there are no cheat codes that would bring your score to 0. Instead, if you skip a level, your score won't be counted in the high score section.

## Levels

This game has 160 levels created by Reflexive Entertainment, but theoretically it has an infinite amount of levels thanks to the introduction of the level editor. This tabber lists their names and categorizes them based on their environment. The level set created by the company is called **Rebound Lost Worlds Standard**. ***(TBC)***

* Rounds 0-1 - 3-10
* Rounds 4-1 - 7-10
* Rounds 8-1 - 11-10
* Rounds 12-1 - 15-10
* Reflexive B-Sides

* Sunken City (1 or 0-1)
* Volcanic Crust (1-1)
* Mayan Temple (2-1)
* Alien Tech (3-1)

Round 0-1 - Into the Abyss...

Round 0-2 - Rings Are Your Friend

Round 0-3 - Find Your Own Way Around The Obstacle Bricks

Round 0-4 - Free Those Spheres

Round 0-5 - Shoot 'Em While You Got 'Em

Round 0-6 - Bricks that Turn into Spheres

Round 0-7 - A Normal Ball Powerup Will Fix Your Small Ball

Round 0-8 - Catch The Ball

Round 0-9 - Acid Balls Are Corrosive

Round 0-10 - Watch Out, Bombs Are Falling...

Round 1-1 - Firebugs... Shrink and Normalize

Round 1-2 - The Power of One

Round 1-3 - Change Brick Bombs, Large and Small

Round 1-4 - Invaders

Round 1-5 - Even the Ball Gets a Gun

Round 1-6 - The Arrow Points The Way It Will Go

Round 1-7 - Obsidian Pyramids

Round 1-8 - "Dread" Locks

Round 1-9 - Full Steam Ahead

Round 1-10 - Fortress Smasher

Round 2-1 - The Sun God

Round 2-2 - Move From One Spot To Another

Round 2-3 - Spheres That Turn Into Bombs

Round 2-4 - Keep Pressing the Button

Round 2-5 - I heard the mission bells

Round 2-6 - All Hail the Stinger Missile!

Round 2-7 - Corridor of Creation

Round 2-8 - The Shredder

Round 2-9 - Temple of Quetzalquatl

Round 2-10 - 4 in 1

Round 3-1 - Rank and File

Round 3-2 - Alien Attraction and Repulsion

Round 3-3 - Back and Forth

Round 3-4 - The Truth Is Out There

Round 3-5 - Right down Broadway

Round 3-6 - Signs

Round 3-7 - Orbiter

Round 3-8 - Managing Chaos

Round 3-9 - Collapsing the Shell

Round 3-10 - Triangles

* Sunken City (4-1)
* Volcanic Crust (5-1)
* Mayan Temple (6-1)
* Alien Tech (7-1)

Round 4-1 - Pulsing Tank Reloaded

Round 4-2 - Seaweed

Round 4-3 - Bring the Seafish Home

Round 4-4 - Deep Sea Bugs

Round 4-5 - Crashing Waves

Round 4-6 - Bar of Assistance

Round 4-7 - Wheel of Fortune

Round 4-8 - Exploding Eel

Round 4-9 - Anchors Away

Round 4-10 - Teleporters in Motion

Round 5-1 - Fire Skates

Round 5-2 - Bellows of Doom

Round 5-3 - Accelerate and Deaccelerate

Round 5-4 - Buck up

Round 5-5 - Pitcher's Revenge

Round 5-6 - Comets

Round 5-7 - Fireballs

Round 5-8 - Hot Pocket

Round 5-9 - Change Wisely

Round 5-10 - Pinball Apprentice

Round 6-1 - The Core

Round 6-2 - Use your "Missiles" to protect the Rings

Round 6-3 - Snakes...why did it have to be snakes?

Round 6-4 - Pillars of Mass Destruction

Round 6-5 - All good things....

Round 6-6 - Quilted In a box

Round 6-7 - You can't get me!

Round 6-8 - Temple Break In

Round 6-9 - Temple of the Puma

Round 6-10 - Tree of Life...and Death

Round 7-1 - mag orbit

Round 7-2 - Fireworks

Round 7-3 - Bowling Anyone?

Round 7-4 - Alien Gumball Machine

Round 7-5 - The Easy Way and the Hard Way

Round 7-6 - Power of Infinity

Round 7-7 - Skill Shot

Round 7-8 - Calm Amongst The Storm

Round 7-9 - Shaken Not Stirred

Round 7-10 - Mosh Pit

* Sunken City (8-1)
* Volcanic Crust (9-1)
* Mayan Temple (10-1)
* Alien Tech (11-1)

Round 8-1 - Seas of Change

Round 8-2 - Multiplicity

Round 8-3 - Brick Attack

Round 8-4 - Metamorpha-fish

Round 8-5 - Feeding Frenzy

Round 8-6 - Depth Charge

Round 8-7 - Orbit and Reorbit

Round 8-8 - Repell the Invaders

Round 8-9 - X marks the spot

Round 8-10 - Argh, Matey! Scurvy Pirates!

Round 9-1 - Wishbone

Round 9-2 - Shooting Gallery

Round 9-3 - The Eyes Have it

Round 9-4 - Can you shoot just one?

Round 9-5 - Bottleneck

Round 9-6 - Don't mess with...

Round 9-7 - Launch it Right the First Time

Round 9-8 - Break Into the Spin

Round 9-9 - Star Castle

Round 9-10 - Pinball Acolyte

Round 10-1- High class problems

Round 10-2- The Egg of Creation

Round 10-3- Revenge of Yar

Round 10-4- Centipedes

Round 10-5- 4-Way Temple Pong

Round 10-6- Where's the Monkey?

Round 10-7- The Big Picture

Round 10-8- Reap what you Sow

Round 10-9- Find a way in

Round 10-10- Countdown

Round 11-1 - Taste a Rainbow

Round 11-2 - Slithering Invaders From Beyond The Moon!

Round 11-3 - Runaway Fan

Round 11-4 - Come Out To Play

Round 11-5 - Bouncing Balls

Round 11-6 - Crank the Gears

Round 11-7 - Attraction

Round 11-8 - Alien Abduction

Round 11-9 - One Line at a Time

Round 11-10 - Cylon Overlords

* Sunken City (12-1)
* Volcanic Crust (13-1)
* Mayan Temple (14-1)
* Alien Tech (15-1)

Round 12-1 - Captain Ahab's Nightmare

Round 12-2 - PacMazing

Round 12-3 - Guarded Escort

Round 12-4 - Reinforcements

Round 12-5 - The storm before the calm

Round 12-6 - Fish in a Barrel

Round 12-7 - Shackles

Round 12-8 - Big Fish Eat Little Fish

Round 12-9 - Shelter

Round 12-10 - Propeller

Round 13-1 - Dr. Jekyll's Flask

Round 13-2 - Atom Smasher

Round 13-3 - Skeet Shooting

Round 13-4 - Teleporter Friendly

Round 13-5 - Somebody Doesn't Like You

Round 13-6 - Luck 'o the Irish

Round 13-7 - Mining for Lava

Round 13-8 - Krakatoa

Round 13-9 - Rising Sun

Round 13-10 - Pinball Wizard

Round 14-1 - World's hardest ring puzzle

Round 14-2 - Hide-and-go-change

Round 14-3 - Pop the bricks before they get destroyed

Round 14-4 - Jousting

Round 14-5 - Robot Mouse in a Maze

Round 14-6 - Montezuma's Revenge

Round 14-7 - The Bar Does More Than Just Get In Your Way

Round 14-8 - The 5th ring is only for speed lovers

Round 14-9 - That's it?

Round 14-10 - Multi-Shot Explosives

Round 15-1 - Rabbit Holes

Round 15-2 - Constantly Dynamic

Round 15-3 - Pop The Brick Before The Time Expires

Round 15-4 - One to move them all

Round 15-5 - Circular Forces

Round 15-6 - Not Quite a Surprise Inside

Round 15-7 - Mad Cow

Round 15-8 - eye on red

Round 15-9 - The Projector

Round 15-10 - BattleGround

* Round 1-10
* Round 11-20
* Round 21-26

Round 1 - Whirpool

Round 2 - Better leave some in reserve

Round 3 - Circling the Drain

Round 4 - Mesmerizing Movements

Round 5 - Lead your receiver

Round 6 - ... to the other side

Round 7 - House of Triggers

Round 8 - Salvation in 60 Seconds from Contact

Round 9 - Expect the Unexpected

Round 10 - The Matrix Has You

Round 11 - If you can't beat it, change it

Round 12 - Swing For the Bleachers...

Round 13 - Pistons of Brimstone

Round 14 - Bombs Away, Reloaded

Round 15 - Into the Mouths of Lions

Round 16 - Contracting Explosives

Round 17 - Pyramids within Pyramids

Round 18 - Switch Them Off!

Round 19 - Change Management

Round 20 - Good players don't need the catch

Round 21 - Use the bomb ball wisely

Round 22 - Froggeroo... Part 2

Round 23 - Spacewalk

Round 24 - Help Comes and Goes

Round 25 - Diversionary Tactics

Round 26 - Area 51

## Powerups

There are 18 powerups available in this version of the game, listed in the following table.

## Rings

Main article: Rings
Rings are firstly introduced in Ricochet Lost Worlds. In every level you find 5 rings that, when all of them are collected, you get bonus points and another 5 rings. At 35 rings collected, you will gain 1 Extra Ball. The counter restarts from 0. Shooting them with guns won't collect them.

## Specialty Bricks

Main article: Bricks

The new bricks in this game are Teleporters, Floating Balls and Ball Accelerator/Deaccelerators. Floating Balls require you to hit them to release them. Ball Accelerators temporarely accelerate your ball if it collides with it. Ball Deaccelerators temporarely deaccelerate your ball if it collides with it.

## Environment Specific Bricks

*Read more on Bricks.*

There are 4 new environments: Sunken City, Volcanic Crust, Mayan Temple and Alien Tech. Each one of the environment introduces new bricks and new mechanics with these bricks, including the Starfish, Rail Bricks and Factory Bricks.

## Music

The game features 5 music files all in mp3 format: one for the main menu and the others for the levels' environments.

## Guides

### Level Editor - Users' Guide

Reflexive Entertainment, as they released a few more updates to this game and the infamous Reflexive B-Sides extension to the game, have released a level editor user guide so others can comprehend the level editor. *The Ricochet Round Editor documentation is available **here**.*

### Readme File

They have also released, with the game, they released a "readme" file that leads you to the game's manual which tells the user more about the game, etc. This is where the powerups' official descriptions come from and all of these can be seen ***here***.

## External Links

* Ratings of the game
* Archive of the official game's website