Nitro Ball

Mission briefing

Nitro Ball is a fast-paced car soccer game played entirely in your browser. Drive a boost-powered car, launch off the walls, and smash a giant ball into your opponent's goal. Jump, flip, and fly through the air to pull off saves and score from anywhere on the pitch. Pick your mode: play a quick match against AI opponents in 1v1, 2v2 or 3v3, fight through a knockout tournament, or switch to Hockey mode where the ball is swapped for a heavy puck that slides across the ice. For a different kind of challenge, take on the Challenge Maps — timed obstacle courses that test your aerial control and precision driving, with your best times saved for every course. Customise your ride with a garage full of cars, wheels, decals, boost trails, toppers and over 250 antenna flags. Free Play mode lets you practice in an arena solo with no opponents.

Field manual

Score more goals than your opponent before the clock runs out! Drive, jump and boost your way around the arena, hit the ball into the enemy goal, and defend your own. Use your boost to fly through the air and reach the ball before anyone else. In Challenge Maps, the goal is different — race through the obstacle course, hit every checkpoint, and reach the finish as fast as you can to beat your best time. Desktop Controls: W / A / S / D — Drive, steer and reverse Spacebar — Jump (press again in mid-air to flip or dodge) Shift — Boost V — Powerslide C — Change camera view G — Show scoreboard O or Esc — Pause menu Gamepad supported — full controller support with rebindable controls in the Settings menu. Tips: Hold jump and push a direction to flip toward the ball for a powerful hit. Collect the glowing boost pads around the arena to refill your boost. Use the walls and ramps to reach high balls.

Launch orders: press Launch mission above and the game loads on this page itself — nothing downloads and no form stands between you and the first move. It is designed for a landscape (wide) screen and takes its orders from mouse, keyboard or touch, depending on the mission. It is built wide, for a landscape screen — rotate a phone sideways, or give it a tablet or monitor to stretch out on. If it offers a fullscreen control, use it — a fight this size deserves the whole screen.

Field notes for action operations

• First run is reconnaissance. Spend it learning where the danger actually spawns from instead of chasing a score — most action games announce their patterns honestly in the opening minute, then repeat them with worse manners.
• Movement is a defensive stat. A moving target at half health outlives a stationary one at full health in nearly every game on this board, so keep relocating between shots, strikes and reloads.
• Learn the exit before the entrance closes. In arena and chase games alike, the players who survive longest are the ones who noticed the second doorway while everyone else was watching the first.

Nitro Ball — questions from the ranks

What does it cost to play Nitro Ball?

Nothing at all. The mission is free from the first order to the last — no sign-up, no download, no paid tier guarding the good levels. The advertising around this page is what keeps the board free.

What sort of mission is Nitro Ball?

Nitro Ball is filed in our Action theatre. Like every operation on this board, it is a browser game — read the briefing above for the publisher's own account of what you are deploying into.

Can I run Nitro Ball on a phone or tablet?

Yes. It plays in the browser on phones and tablets exactly as it does on a computer. It is built wide, for a landscape screen — rotate a phone sideways, or give it a tablet or monitor to stretch out on.

Do I have to install anything before playing?

No installation of any kind. Nitro Ball is an HTML5 game: press the launch button and it loads on this page, and closing the tab leaves nothing behind.

After-action

Mission complete, or still pinned down? The full Action theatre is one click away — The main hall of the board: 469 operations where something is always moving, exploding, escaping or being chased. If a game has a pulse and a problem, it is probably filed here.