There's a reason why Steve Ritchie, Pat Lawlor, George Gomez or Brian Eddy are revered till this day. The balls feel exactly like they do in a real pinball table and not like a mixture of rubber and marble like in Zen/FX.ĭon't get me wrong, I like Pinball FX as well, otherwise I wouldn't have purchased a bunch of tables for the umpteenth time.īut they can be played mindlessly and after a 20 minutes a table becomes boring because it's all to easy. The physics are another point where this one is heads and shoulders above it's competitor. That layout and goals have a lot more thought put into that which makes the tables playable for decades, not just a couple of weeks/months. I'd go as far to say that a single table such as Ghostbusters is put together in such a way that puts every single table on Pinball FX to shame. Sure it's missing a couple of features, but a good pinball game should thrive on how well it's tables are put together and not on some online features that will go offline in a couple of years. I own both game series (Pinball Arcade and Zen) in it's multiple iterations on Wii, PS2, PS3, PS4, iOS, PSP, Vita, 360, 3DS and now Switch as well and while each caters to a certain demographic, slagging this one off for it's old licences and it's simplicity is really misguided. It's by no means at the forefront of the digital pinball game market and in its current state is probably a good indication as to why pinball lost traction over the years.Ĭan't say I agree with the review at all. Stern Pinball has none of this and a limited selection of purchasable tables. Not to mention a large collection of prominent licenses. Its primary competitor excels at offering a connected online experience with cross-platform play, global leaderboards and tournaments. The simulation aspects and overall realism does not make up for the severe lack of modern features within this title. The issue is it's a rather simplistic game. The limited content in Stern Pinball is nonetheless well-crafted and certainly accurate when compared to real pinball. Collectively, these are definitely some of the stronger aspects of Stern Pinball. The music and sounds are authentic to the respective franchises and the game runs smoothly in both the handheld and docked mode. Each table includes a description about its history and you also have the ability to view each table on certain angles. The controls make use the L and R buttons as bumpers, the left analog nudges the table while the right one launches the ball into play - nothing all that different to other pinball games.Īs jaded as a number of the tables look, the most impressive aspect is the accurate recreation of each one. Once you've grasped the basics, setting high scores and achieving goals becomes less difficult. It's the exact type of content you would expect from a pinball game. Each table has a table guide explaining its features and secrets as well. What is present is a high score mode with unique pinball goals on each table and a challenge mode (where the player must complete particular tasks on each table). At the time of review, FarSight Studios is also still yet to incorporate a vertical camera angle for the handheld mode - whereas Zen Studio's latest release shipped with this feature. There's not even a local multiplayer option. Unlike other pinball games, there's no online connectivity or multiplayer or cross-network play, but a global leaderboard has now been added alongside a Portrait mode (for handheld use). This simplicity is reflected throughout the game. Depending on your age, you're likely going to embrace this, or you're not. Stern Pinball Arcade is very much like a time machine, transporting the player back to a period when life was much simpler. A table based on the latest Star Trek movies is one of the newer ones, though all it really highlights is the weaker collection of licenses. Forget The Walking Dead, Valve's Portal and a series of colourful themes covering a range of genres, because here you'll be playing the original Ghostbusters table and rocking out to AC/DC on another. The 11 downloadable tables, available for purchase in two separate packages or individually, likely won't be as enticing to younger audiences.
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