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Dream Pinball

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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.

HD cables made a difference

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: April 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

We purchased this over the past weekend, and played it on our 42" tv with no issues. The graphics are intense, and the flashing lights can be distracting.

However - you can turn down the 'bells & whistles' so it is easier on the eyes. Also, we have the Wii HD Pro Component Cable and this seems to make a significant difference in the video. (not just on Dream Pinball, but all of our Wii games!)

We spent several enjoyable hours playing.

Great game. Needs a little more space to keep up with the flippers

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: May 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The game is excellent. It reminds you of the old days when you use to go to an arcade and play. Reliving my youth.

PinBall Player

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is a lot of fun especially if you enjoy pinball. I found myself really getting into playing as if I was using a real pinball machine. I haven't made it to the expert level yet, but I'm having a lot of fun getting there. It;s not a game you play sitting down that's for sure!

Skip this - get Williams Collection

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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.

Go with Pinball Hall of Fame: Williams instead

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Surprisingly bad pinball game; I have nothing against original layouts, but these are quite poor with no flow and way too many flippers. Physics is not horrible but flipper "animation" is non-existent. The camera tracking is awful leading to drained balls because the camera couldn't pan down to the flippers fast enough. Try the far superior Pinball Hall of Fame : The Williams Collection instead.

Poor graphics

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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.

Simply Horrid

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: April 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I'll be brief.

The physics are wonky - the flippers feel like that old Space Cadet game that came free with Windows.

The smart cam is nauseating...and you lose balls because half the time the smart cam can't keep up. Full table view is an option but then you can't really tell what you're doing because the tables are busy and the graphics are muddy.

Table layouts are completely uninspired.

If you want an EXCELLENT pinball for the Wii get Williams Pinball Hall of Fame.

Dream Pinball

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: April 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I waited for this game to wanting a good Pinball game and when it got here boy did it suck. You can play it but it's not a good game at all. Hay! spend your money on Beer because you will have more fun.

You get what you pay for --- not much!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: April 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a $20 game, so remember that. A $20 game is not usually as good as a $50 game. This proves the theory. You have six tables for $20 so that sounds like a bargain, but sadly the joke is on us. I WISH I had waited for other reviews before spending my own $20 on this game but sadly I didn't.

The game had potential, but it just fails.

The tables are hard to see and the camera is so slow sometimes if the ball rapidly moves from the top to the bottom of the table, the camera doesn't catch up in time for you to see where it is, so if you don't react with an instinctive flipper press, you could just lose the ball because you couldn't see the bottom of the table in time.

They tried to create a "realistic" effect by adding a reflection of the back glass onto the surface of the pinball machine, but it is just distracting. Some of the flippers are so hidden you can't even see where they are until you activate them. The sound effects are annoying and repetitive (I know it's pinball, but still) and the amount of free balls I got in one game was insane and I wasn't even trying that hard.

I only gave it two stars instead of one because this wasn't a full priced game, so for $20 it has a little value. But once you play for more than an hour total, you will be about ready to get rid of this trainwreck. It had potential, but it falls far short.

Stay away and like others said, get the Williams Pinball game for a much better time!

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