To be fair though I did have to ask myself, ‘who is actually have going to have heard of these tables, let alone played on them?’ It’s true to say that had I been unaware of the use of real life tables here I’d have been none the wiser. The tables date from 1981 through to 2004 and have been beautifully recreated. The chosen four are: Stern’s ‘Ripley’s Believe it or Not’, Williams ‘Tales of the Arabian Nights’, ‘Theatre of Magic’ from Bally and displaying some true old school pinball, Gottlieb’s ‘Black Hole.’ Each is introduced with a brief history detailing when it was released, why it was deemed special enough to appear here, who made it etc. Not that the tables within The Pinball Arcade aren’t wild and wonderful themselves, the four up for play initially are all solid and fun within their own right. So where the Zen boys where free to roam the recesses of their overactive imaginations and create all manner of wild and wonderful tables the Farsight folk have delivered a game that will appeal to the pinball purists as well. The Pinball Arcade though treads a slightly different path to that of FX 2 in that it uses a selection of video versions of real life tables. Looks like it is time for Zen’s FX game to budge up. Well, speaking for myself, when video pinball is done right it’s an absolute delight to play and with The Pinball Arcade, Farsight, have certainly done things right. So is there room at the (pinball) table for this bold newcomer or are we gamers already beyond content? The reason being of course that the superb Pinball FX 2 has been more than catering for all our silver ball shooting needs and high score feats within the Xbox LIVE Arcade for some time now. It’s a brave move from Farsight Studios to try and stake a claim for a slice of the video pinball pie with latest release The Pinball Arcade.
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