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Full Tilt 2 Maxis grade

Reviewed: 1997 

- The pinball

It is as the first one a windows 95 native game. It has a 3D view of the table, a bit different here than in the original. The game is pretty ok, the feeling is a bit strange but in the whole good. The layout of the tables are very different in some aspects from other pinballs. The tables themes are very varying in the 3 tables featured in this pinball, but very similar in the way they are built up. In some ways the tables are boring but there are many small but positive things in them that lightens them up. The game is not a top scoring but you cant help liking it a bit.


- The tables

- Alien Daze

Since I am a fan of "The X-Files" I thought this table could be sort of enjoying in some strange way. After playing it a while I was a little disappointed on some things, for example almost all objects on the table were pretty much useless.

In the background of the table you can see 8 stone pedestals, you can by hitting the bumpers a number of times make the ball get abducted by a UFO, after the abduction a human face appears in one of the stone pedestals. Naturally you would expect something special to be started when all pedestals are occupied, but nothing does. Also you can start a multiball mode, but that's all, no special jackpot collecting is started or similar challenge to use all your balls in.

There are a number of modes to start in the game, Make Crop Circles, Abduct humans and more. These modes names are pretty good and the modes themselves are fun. What I personally don't like is how you start a mode, you have to shoot the ball into a long ramp spiral and get the ball to enter a hole in the spiral. They could have variated how you start the modes, which would have made it more challenging, and having the mode starter in such place is more irritating than fun.

The tables layout is good and connected to the tables name, what I miss is small subgames and things where you can score other than in the main modes you can start. In all this table is fun for a while but not lasting in the big aspect.

- Captain Hero

This table is fun, not in any special and original way it is just fun. The layout is somewhat strange and as in Alien Daze there are no bigger deal of subthings to score on. As there hero @-man (sigh) you conduct heroic things like stopping Mystic man and some Mad people in general. These modes are sort of enjoying, sadly not so challenging to start, they hold the tables spirit up. And you have fun trying to complete all the heroic modes there are.

- Mad Scientist

This pinballs maybe most lasting table. The theme reminds very much of the Frankenstein movie (original?): you must collect the various parts needed to put the monster together, make the elixir of life and in general do mad things. The table layout is sort of good and you will probably enjoy playing this table. But as the other two there are not much to do besides collecting ingredients and monster parts.


- The feeling

There is nothing special about the feeling. The ball has strange way of accelerating highspeed but in the whole it moves normal an is easy to handle. Although you can't aim very well you get around.


- The whole

It is a normal pinball, if you found the original Full Tilt enjoyable you will probably like this one. It is not really a simulator but more a pinball game, what pulls down the playability of the tables is the lack of things to do. The modes are good and a little challenging and really enlightens the game and makes you like it and play it. But they are not so varying after some hours and you wish there were some more to do beside the tables main themes. Still the pinball has good feeling and tables that you can play, so if you want a pinball that will be nothing special but will give you a 3D view of the table in win95 and a little playing you could look at this one. Depending on what you expect from a pinball this one will be an enjoying break in the workday.


system requirements

Platform: PC
Operating System: Windows 3.1 or Windows 95
486 or above
SVGA display
8mb Memory
double-speed CD-ROM
mouse

Also available for: Mac


Screenshots:
  • Alien Daze
  • Captain Hero
  • Mad Scientist
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