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One of the
better looking western made pinball games for the Saturn but does that
mean it's any good? Well, as we all know, the
king of Saturn Pinball games are the 2 Digital Pinball titles from Kaze
/ Meldac. Even Technosoft's Kyuutenkai
Fantastic Pinball is quite a big disappointment after their excellent
conversion of Naxat's PC Engine classic, Devil
Crush (called Devil Crash MD on the Mega Drive). And with pinball games
such as Hyper 3D Pinball (not even in real 3D) coming from western
developers it's not hard to see why this game
is the best looking one.
On the plus side True Pinball does look very nice. It runs in the
Saturn's highest resolution plus has some nice
effects. But how does it play? Well you can view the game in the same
fake 3D view as the Digital Pinball games which makes it look equally on
par as far as graphics go. Or you can view it from the top which looks
kind of plain really. So it's the 3D view
we'll judge this game on. Play wise
it's quite solid with quick responsive
controls plus up and down tilts as well as the standard left to right
tilt. The problem is that the tables are a bit
on the dull side. Well, maybe not dull but they're
not exactly the most inspiring in the world. This is a real downer
because everything else is very well done from the digital score board
to the audio. If only Digital Illusions had taken a little more time
with the table design then this could have
been a real winner. Still it's not a bad
pinball game and would be worth checking out if you already own the
Digital Pinball games (Last Gladiator and Necronomicon). With
it's 4 tables I'm
sure you'll get some fun out of it. |
