Video Games : Dream Pinball 3D

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: Dream Pinball 3D
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Binding: Video Game
Brand: Southpeak
EAN: 0612561100060
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Label: South Peak Interactive
Manufacturer: South Peak Interactive
Model: 10006
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Publisher: South Peak Interactive
Release Date: June 04, 2008
Sales Rank: 2577
Studio: South Peak Interactive

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A great pinball game should not only be amazing from the start, but should continue to be entertaining every time you play it. This was the thinking behind the development of the newest pinball sensation to hit the market, Dream Pinball 3D, with its 6 cutting edge tables that are beckoning you to try your luck.

The monsters-themed table
The monsters-themed table.
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The 'Two Worlds' themed table
The 'Two Worlds'-themed table.
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Gameplay
Not skimping on the technology, game developer TopWare Interactive included six different style of balls in Dream Pinball 3D. Made of different materials, they not only look different, but their ballistic characteristics will affect the very rolling behavior of each one of them. Add to that incredible acoustics, state of the art particle technology, HDRI and multilayer 3D sound, realistic tilt function and motion blur effects, and you have the best pinball experience yet available on the Wii.

'Dream Pinball 3D' game logo
An arcade classic now for Wii
One Game but Many Ways to Play
Whether bellying up to your favorite machine at the local arcade or plopped down in front of your Wii, a huge part of the fun of any pinball game is variety and action in the tables you play. Dream Pinball 3D has this covered with its six playable tables. Each has an entirely different look, with a partial list of these including: aquatic, monsters (zombies,vampires...), and dinosaur and Two Worlds (game publisher SouthPeaks's hit role-playing game) themes. Each of these also includes at least one extra pair of flippers, in addition to the standard pair. This makes for unpredictable fun and boundless replayablity, whether you are already a pinball wizard or a wizard in training.

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - like playing monopoly without reading what the game squares say
First the good: like your first 2 foot long toy pinball table as a kid, this game is playable. You can hit the ball over and over and have fun just doing that. You can listen to the voice-over and get many of the bonus quests. Its not a terrible game. And the game is 'easy'... I dont know what the programmers expected, but even with my problems with this game, and in hard mode, i blew the default high score outta the water by a factor of 3 on my first day...

Another poster here said the controls were bad... I'd like to say HUH???? Left and right trigger are the paddle/flipper controls. Jiggle your controller(s) to nudge table. How can it possibly be easier or better? Telepathic conrols? No, the controls are fine.

The flipper animation is terrible though - they are either down or up... no smooth motion in between or even physics that take the in-between motion into account.

And now the bad:
Though it's not a terrible 'GAME' its a terrible "PINBALL GAME"!! No camera angles let you read what any of the on-table text says, especially at the far end of the table.

The ball-follow camera is slow: more than once, while the ball went fast to the gutter, the camera lagged behind and i had to use the flippers blind cuz they were off-screen...

Showing the full table is useless on a tv screen!! The lights and text are a bunch of colored blobs! You cannot read or tell what any of the targets do in full table view. Actually you cant read any text in any view really (except a few x2 or x5 type text), yet the game fights to try and keep you in full table view too often. And the camera angles are too similar.

It NEEDS a closer, flat, top-down view that scrolls up and down the table like the classic "PINBALL DREAMS" did. (a great pinball game).

The game keeps trying to show off its 3d-ness by zooming and panning around.... we dont need this!! We just need a stable, close and clear view of the table details that keeps up with the ball!!

Ball launch suffers from an even worse fate: you cannot see the full table at all so you have no way to judge how hard to hit the ball with the plunger. All you see is the launch corner of the table... I mean sometimes you want to try to hit a target straight outta the launcher by going light on the plunger but this game doesnt let you see the table during launch so forget it.

Also, due to lack of visual detail, the extra flippers are hard to see.. You dont know where your 3rd, 4th, etc flippers are unless you just keep hitting your flipper button over and over to see them working.

Another gamer here posted that the Williams "hall of fame" pinball game is so much better.... Well, I admit it has much much better ball physics and is harder (in a good way). But it has ALL the same camera and unreadability problems that this game has!! If you HAVE to choose between only these two games, i'd say go with the Williams games for authenticity and Dream Pinball for more easy going, hit-the-ball casual gameplay.

Again though, stick with the old school Pinball Dreams and its many sequals for truly good video pinball. Amazon sells it as part of the Amiga classix 4 i believe. The pc port is inferior from what i hear



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Absorbing game worth the price
After renting this game a couple of times from Blockbuster, my boyfriend and I decided to buy it. We both love pinball, but we had tried some games that were less than enthusing. We were not disappointed with Dream Pinball, however. There are several pinball "machines" to choose from, each with a different theme, easy, hard, and expert options of play, and multiple players are allowed. My only issue is that you can't use more than one Wii remote, so if you're playing more than one player, you have to pass the remote around. Still, an entertaining game overall.


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Dream Pinball
This game wasn't worth the money I spent. The game was the worst wii game I have purchased. If you want a pinball game buy the other one. That game so much worth the price.


Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Poor graphics
This is a very poor arcade pinball game. There are only six game tables to pick from and use of the controllers is confusing. The graphics are very poor and not very realistic. Loading time is long. Being that this is a Wii game, I was extremely disappointed since I felt I was playing a game from the old Atari days. There are much better quality pinball games out there than this one.


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Skip this - get Williams Collection
Ugh! What a train wreck. I was looking forward to this after having so much fun with The Williams Collection, but this is not only not in the same league, but hardly deserves to be in the same console.

The in-game controls are the only decent thing about the game, and they are nothing special. The controls are wasted on tables that have difficult to see upper flippers.

Additionally, some of the camera views do not let you see the whole table, or at least the targets or ramps that you need to shoot. Yuck!

Graphics are pretty bad - and the menus look like they were done in 5 minutes.

There is not a huge amount of variety to the measly 6 tables - they look too much the same, hardly any personality to them.

It may be cheap, but it is still not worth what you pay for the game.

Save your money and get the Williams COllection - a far superior product for at most $5 more.

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