I hope this company stick with pinball, as there’s obviously promise here. Dream Pinball 3D is almost too realistic for its own good, and yet falls down on a couple of strikingly obvious things. My favourite ever pinball game is Psycho Pinball, with its clever little mini-games, linked tables (go down a hole on this table, end up on another!) and focus on player ability – if you didn’t bash that button hard enough, that ball was going nowhere. This is clearly nuts, and whoever thought it would be a good idea needs to be sat down and given a sharp talking-to. Pressing ‘enter’ to launch it will do so, but you won’t see it appear until it’s actually gone up and out of the chute. You read that correctly: there is no ball. But the worst thing is the ball launch itself – the ball isn’t actually there. For me the graphics on the far left-hand side of the screen were a bit warped and once I’d noticed I couldn’t stop noticing it. The physics, while good, are not perfect, and sometimes a ball will fly off a flipper when you barely tapped the key. There are also some niggles which niggle you more the more you play. The opening of the game puts you in a club of some sort with a dartboard next to the pinball table, but you can’t interact with anything – this bit could have been like the very good Pool Paradise and is an unforgivably wasted opportunity. There are no twisty quirks you couldn’t possibly have in reality, nothing else to do, no extra content. Very realistic this might be, but this is a PC game after all, so what can it offer over and above? Nothing. It’s pretty immersive and more than comparable to real pinball tables, and for once the music will not make you want to rip your own ears off. All the tables have a variety of sounds and voices which tell you what’s going on, and a little recreation of the score display in the left-hand corner. Anyway, as far as I’m aware she’s from the game Two Worlds and we are not getting an insight into what the programmers get up to in their spare time (search for it yourself to see what I mean). Having no idea who this might be, I Googled her and was…um…surprised by the results. The themes are fairly standard stuff: there’s an aquatic-based table, a ‘monsters’ table and one based on a character called ‘Amber Moon’. This affects the ball’s behaviour in various ways, although it’s not as marked as the developers would like you to think. The game’s ‘gimmick’, as all pinball games must have, is that from time to time you get a different ball made out of a different material – namely gold, wood, ivory and marble. The physics are pretty solid too, and the ball(s) whizz around like someone has applied engine oil. It looks, for all the world, exactly like what you would find on the real thing. There are six tables, which become increasingly cluttered with obstacles and scenery until you’ve got a giant helicopter in the middle of one and a second table level on the last. Graphically it’s wonderful – you’ll be too busy at first trying to work out what the heck you should be doing and trying to keep the ball on the table, but after a while you’ll notice the little details, like the reflections off the glass and the lovely ‘flare’ effects when you hit certain targets. Dream Pinball 3D (what a very mid-90s title) has them in abundance. I’m probably a sucker for flashy lights and shiny things. If there was some kind of award for making large ball-bearings disappear at speed, I would win hands-down. It’s less ‘lost balls’ and more ‘lost marbles’. And it will only be a few minutes, for I not only love it but am completely, categorically useless. If I’m walking past an arcade I’ll generally find the table with the most ridiculous-looking construction and try my luck for a few minutes. I’ve owned various virtual tables from the day that I played Pinball Dreams on a friend’s Amiga and became hooked. Enjoy accurate re-creations of the most famous pinball machines of all time with Williams Pinball, or have fun with Zen’s original creations.īuild up your own customizable 3D playroom with collectible items unlocked by playing.Įnjoy digital pinball at its finest as Pinball FX brings you the most advanced simulation in pinball with Pro Physics for every table in the library, 4K HDR visuals, and ray tracing.I love pinball. Relive the most iconic moments from entertainment powerhouses like Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Marvel, Universal Studios, and many more. Download Pinball FX for the first time and make use of the complimentary 1 day Pinball Pass which lets you access most tables for free!Ĭontinue honing your pinball skills on our 3 free tables available for unlimited play - Wild West Rampage, Fish Tales and Sorcerer's Lairĭiscover brand new exclusive tables created for Pinball FX, or find your favorites among more than 100 unique and visually enhanced favorites from Zen's extensive digital pinball library.
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