By comparison, its 3-D graphics are beautifully textured, almost always smoothly rendered, and presented from great camera angles similarly, the light electronic music is very good. The Deep Pinball’s only weakness is in its voice samples, which are frequent, but appear to have been recorded somewhat amateurishly. It doesn’t have down moments like Wild West, where you feel like you’re flipping at targets and hitting the same few things again and again, but it also doesn’t have the high intensity level of some of the classic 16-bit pinball games that added moving targets and multiple tables to the mix. Between the flipper and ball physics, which just feel “real,” and the numerous things you can do on the board-unlocking a treasure chest, moving a ramp over to a sunken ship, the aforementioned hunting, and completing “missions” by hitting targets-The Deep keeps you entertained and challenged for as long as you keep playing. One target on the board will occasionally spin the table on its side so that you can take a “hunting” shot at pop-up targets, and a swirling whirlpool in the upper right corner adds a little bit of welcome surreality to the table, but otherwise Gameprom’s design is traditional. Think of The Deep’s table as an evolved version of the Wild West one, with more targets, more objectives, more voice samples, and background music-basically, more and better everything, so long as you like the underwater theme.Īs before, you’re presented with a 3-D pinball table that is primarily but not exclusively viewed from a scrolling, forced overhead view, starting from the bottom of the table you get to watch as the flippers, bumpers, rails and other pieces of the board move gently upwards and downwards in perspective as the ball rolls through them. When Gameprom released Wild West Pinball back in April, we were pretty impressed, noting that it was “not perfect, but it’s the best pinball game yet released for the iPhone and iPod touch.” Now the company has returned with The Deep Pinball ($1), a sequel that is derivative, yet manages to substantially exceed its predecessor.
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