![]() ![]() It would have been far better to have an option to simply send an invitation to your friends to participate from within the game. After you create the table, you’ll need to separately tell your friends to search for your username, and then input the password that you create when setting up the tournament. One odd omission is that you can’t directly invite friends with a copy of the game to a private tournament that you’ve created. I can, however, understand why Zen Studios sees the potential in fostering a more dynamic and committed online competitive scene, and I’m sure that this feature will prove popular. My interest in multiplayer starts and stops with comparing my top scores with my friends list, and Pinball FX 3 continues to accommodate me with that, of course, but there’s very little value to me regarding the rest of the new multiplayer features. There’s a far heavier focus on direct competition this time around, with player-created tournaments being easier to structure. Jaws, in particular, is a new favourite table of mine, but all three are enjoyable for the way that they limit the bells and whistles in homage to their status as classic films, the tables play like classic, old pinball layouts, and I really enjoy that, especially on the back of the previous Bethesda pinball table releases which really pushed the boundaries for what was possible using the base pinball mechanics.īeyond the new tables, Pinball FX 3 offers a number of enhancements that Zen Studios has clearly built with the emergence of eSports in mind. There’s a Universal classics pack of three tables – Jaws, Back to the Future, and ET, and these are all delightful. While most of the tables made the jump, the lost of those that didn’t still bites, so the question then becomes what does Pinball FX 3 have to compensate? So too is the Football Super League and Plants Vs. The blindingly brilliant Ninja Gaiden table, for example, is lost to history with the release of Pinball FX 3. While you can import most of your old table purchases into this one (there are around 65 tables available on Pinball FX 3 that you’ll unlock for free if you already owned them in Zen Pinball 2), there are glaring omissions as a consequence of licenses expiring. Pinball FX 3 demonstrates minimal improvements in terms of pinball action over what Zen Studios was already doing nearly perfectly. And, with dozens and dozens of tables, complete with online leaderboards and the ability to compare scores directly with friends, the value you can get from that existing release is near endless.įor this reason, it’s a little mystifying why the studio has decided to build a “sequel” to Zen Pinball 2, rather than just continue developing new tables for the existing platform. Zen Pinball 2, and its dozens and dozens of tables, is still a perfectly playable, viable platform for anyone who enjoys the classic feel of bumping a ball around a table for points. Zen Studios has mastered the art of digital pinball, that much is clear. Related reading: Pinball in VR is really, really good too. As such I’ve written an in-depth analysis below, but a “score” at the end seemed rather pointless. The “game” itself is only really a feature-rich hub for Zen Studios to release its pinball tables on, so it’s more a series of menus and online features than a game. Note: I didn’t think a “review” in the traditional sense made sense for Pinball FX 3. ![]()
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