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- The pinball
The pinball is a windows style one, it has a small non scrolling table in the middle of the screen. The pinballs name is of course Sport Pinball since all its tables has s sport theme. There are currently four different tables in the series.
All the tables in this pack have one major fault, the lack of modes and that they offer to little to do. The table themes are based on a sports (ofcourse), but the themes lack main goals. Instead you just shoot around a little scoring and maybe you can be lucky and start a multiball, but what's the fun with a non-mode based multiball in tables like these. - Baseball This is a corny looking table, sad looking layout (It has 6 bumpers, probably to fill out some otherwise empty table area), and in offers very little to do. You make home runs, triples, doubles and singles... and that's about it. You can do a certain number of homeruns and each is worth a certain score. At the end that score is multiplied with the number of homeruns made, the same goes for triples and the rest. I know little about baseball but you seem to only be able to do 9 of each and then, who knows, you might get even more score. The table totally lack modes and similar. This is definitively not a table you get stuck playing for hours, it lacks to much to be of any bigger interest, in all it is rather bad. - Ice hockey Well, the table look nice and feels half good. But there is nothing to do in it. In the middle of the table is a big wheel which you can easily spin, but what's the fun with that. Alright you might start something in a year or two or activate and get something fun to happen. But still there is very little to do on this table, and it certainly isn't overwhelmed with places and small things to score on. The table simply doesn't offer enough to do to be able last... - Football This table offers about the same as the baseball table only with the sports own terms and maybe a few more targets. The table layout is not as good, personally I don't like tables in which the kickoff is places between the flippers (that place the ball drains in), it doesn't feel right. This tables doesn't last in any way, but maybe a fan of the sport might find the table enjoyable, but I doubt it. - Basketball
Slamdunk, Jam and just collect points. There is nothing special about the table and nothing overwhelming good about it. I found it boring after half a minute of play, still I played it longer to see if I could discover anything fun in it but didn't. I just got plain tiered of the lousy midi music repeating every minute and the lack of feeling and fun things to start didn't help either. I managed to get a multiball (wasn't very hard) and found that even that was boring in this table. As in all these four tables the the table layout is totally wrong which results in the gameplay getting boring.
The ball physics isn't so stunning either. The ball moves half realistic but it speeds up strange sometimes and don't act all to realistic. The flipper physics are ok, they don't do anything to improve the gameplay. The feeling is in the whole not that good, it could have been better which that would have helped this pinball a little. It is though, playable.
No game I recommend in the first hand (actually I don't recommend it at all). The tables get sooo boring after a while of playing, and just think about it: It is a unknown mystery that I give this pinball a 2 in grade... I mean releasing a pinball nowadays this bad/boring should be forbidden... If you want good good non-scrolling pinball take a look at Crystal Caliburn, one of the best in this genre.
system requirements
Platform: PC
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