I am writing this post only because the FCB pinball went free a few days ago. I grabbed it and gave it a try. Had it not been free I would never had payed for it: I am not at all a football fan and do not care for Barcelona all that much.
The one thing that one notices immediately is that it was developped by Legendo Entertainment who have also produced Pure Pinball. Same (good) quality of graphics, same (quite acceptable) physics engine, and I find that FCB has an even better layout than PPP. You even get to shoot at the goalie (a non-trivial task).
I did enjoy playing the game for a while. Those who had downloaded it while it was free, can enjoy a casual play now and then. Should one pay more than two euros for this game? Definitely not, unless one is a FC Barcelona fan.
Zen Studios just announced a new pinball table: Deadpool.
As it is now customary with the Zen pinballs the table is excellent graphically. However, to my eyes, this is hardly a pinball. Unless this is the future evolution of pinballs and I am missing something.
Anyhow, I do not care much for this type of pinballs and I do not intend to buy this table. So, if somebody were ready to report on this particular game I, for one, would be indebted.
The thing that I really appreciate in Farsight is their regularity. Every month or so the are coming out with a new pinball. When you are, like myself, following the growing pains of Timeshock, you can wonder at times how the people at Farsight are doing. In fact I have been for quite some time now speculating about the engine they use. Most probably they have a Visual- or Future- pinball like home-brewed engine for all the platforms they are developing for. Any information on this would be most welcome.
This time the pinball is a classic one from Gottlieb: Lights... Camera... Action!
It's a game that I liked at first sight although it is very hard to play with the "invisible" ball. I found that the only one I could somehow follow was the dark yellow one and even thus I was losing it at times. Some features are great, in particular the pistol draw where one manages almost always to beat the villain and get a reward. Other features are a nightmare: when the ball passes through the side-lanes one cannot really follow it and it arrives at the flippers so fast that quite often it drains. Still it's fun to play this pinball and if you are ready to fork out the 4.49 $ Farsight is charging for a single table, go ahead and try it. It's a nice pinball.
That's probably a new record of mine. I did like two Farsight pinballs in a row (Junk yard last time and now Lights... Camera... Action!). Well, perhaps I am losing my mojo as a bunch of people who pretend to be journalists are saying about Apple.
