Addiction Pinball is a great game with great inspiration.
- Great inspiration by Team17 games
- Solid Gameplay
- Good mix of realistic and arcade play
- Neat artistic detail
The Bad:
- Only 2 tables to choose from
- Aiming and angling your shot seems a little too arcady
- Actual game graphics arnt too good
- Extras are totally unworthwhile
Addiction Pinball is a great pinball game anybody can pick up and play. If you love pinball games you will absolutly love Addiction Pinball. There are so many things to do and discover on the two gimmick boards which are Team 17's Worms Armagedon and Rally Fever.
There is so much stuff to do in Addiction Pinball it will take you weeks to discover all the stuff. Its a shame there are only two different tables but even so it is still very fun and entertaining. There are shop spaces, random event spaces, many mini-games, loops, bends twists and curves and also Multi-Ball! Also in addiction spinball is a unique space at the top middle of each board which when hit will give you a bonus.
Each board realy gimmicks there real game ancestors realy well. On the Worms Armagedon you have all the worm sound effects, music and details etc. There are mini-games which even let you sorta play worms on the pinball screen by avoinding a foot or bombs or even controlling a super sheep trough a maze whilst ralley fever is vice versa with junkyards, stunt evens, race events etc.
What realy makes Addiction Pinball stand out is the amazing artistic detail. What I mean by this is the textures that are on the boards. The graphics even are quite good aswell the whole thing nearly looks lifelike, just go see some screenshots for yourself. With that said however the raw graphics arnt so good. Some objects are rather jagged, the screen of the pinball table is realy ugly and the whole presetation seems outdated. However the game certainly does a good job of makking use of makking things look like different materials like plastic, metal etc. and the ball reflects the playfeild quite well.
The gameplay in AP is just solid. It nails a perfect combination of an arcade style whilst also being quite a realistic game. The ball speed physics are arcady but the way it bounces of object and decelarates and accelerates and prefectly angles itself of objects how you would expect makes it a realy fun pick up and play game. However, this is also for the bad. For instance, the flippers on the board arnt so realistic but so arcade. What I mean is not only are they an odd shape and size, but the way the ball reacts with the angle of them can be pretty unpredictable at time and sometimes makes it impossible to angle your shots. This is due to the realism of the ball physics and the arcadism of the flippers. Still, the game is so much fun to play and like I said it is easy to pick up and go.
Addiction Pinball is a solid pinball game that is easy to pick up and play. It has some realy neatly detailed textures, tons of replay value (heck I could not stop playying till I got the highest score which I had to beat a score of 1,000,000) lots of stuff to do and different ways to play and overall is a great way to play pinball if you had enough of thoose rather dumb gravity depending real life pinball tables.