For fans of pinball, Smoots Pinball is a definite avoid. Even for younger gamers, arguably who the game is really pitched at, there still isn’t really much to recommend here.
With the plethora of arcade cabinets already present in Arcade Paradise, it can be forgiven for not even thinking twice about a lack of pinball table to play on. But Vostok Inc Pinball is another solid addition to the arcade.
With its actual mission and objective based gameplay, Dragon Pinball may just be the best pinball game yet from Super PowerUP Games. But based on what has come before it, that isn’t really a compliment.
Jurassic Pinball offers up a depressingly bland pinball table with almost no redeeming features. Aside from the fact that the delays and dodgy physics are such that your turns will be over very quickly.
The pinball genre on Xbox One is all but sewn up by Zen Studios’ arsenal of licensed tables featuring huge franchises from the world of TV, film and gaming. It’s nice to have a change though occasionally, and when developers Shine Research emerged onto the market with Zombie Pinball, with a cracking price point and a promise of ‘super addictive gameplay’, I figured it’d be a welcome breath of fresh air. Is it as addictive as one could hope for? Can I barely tear myself away from it to eat and drink?
If you like nothing better than pinging balls around a table, flipping flippers, and building highscores, then the numerous table options found in Zen Studios’ Pinball FX3 will be more than appealing. In fact, if you’re looking for any pinball experience, then it is the Zen offering which stands head and shoulders above the competition.
But that doesn’t stop others trying to get a piece of the pinball pie and the introduction of Babylon 2055 Pinball to the market for a stupidly low price tag gives ‘balling fans a slightly different option away from the visual glories of the usual Marvel and Star Wars themed beauts.
No one can doubt Zen Studios' immense ability to acquire highly sought after licenses for use in their popular Pinball FX series, and with Pinball FX 3 launching recently, they needed some big hitters to help start the party with a bang. Well I’m not sure about the bang, but the Universal Classics Pinball pack certainly has a bite to it by including a table for the film Jaws, as well a table each for E.T. the Extra Terrestrial and the Back to the Future films. Do these classics adapt to the world of pinball with ease, or were they better off left in the cherished memories of yesteryear?
