The four new tables offered (Bio Lab, Pasha, Rome, and Secrets of the Deep) are all excellent. As long as people care about their scores, any new tables they add will surely sell.Īnd even if you don’t care about scoring, or perhaps you have no friends with competitive pinball spirits, Pinball FX 2 is the best pinball video game I’ve played. Through this slightly evil system (I say "slightly" because I love it), Zen Studios has found the ultimate way to promote DLC. Convincing a friend to buy another table or two will raise their Superscores, and in turn, greatly up your Wizard Score. Depending how much you value your Wizard Score, you may find yourself playing the role of a door-to-door salesman on your Xbox Live friends list. I wanted my friends to achieve higher scores on each table just so that my Wizard Score would go up. While it may look like just another number, Wizard Score changes the social and competitive dynamics of Pinball FX 2. For instance, my Superscore (120) added to my friends’ (256) and multiplied by my tables (13), gives me a Wizard Score of 4,888. This rank compiles you and your friends’ Superscores and multiplies those figures by the number of tables you’ve played. So, if your friend is a pinball wizard on the Secrets of the Deep table, but is terrible on every other table, their Superscore will reflect their lack of overall skill.Īs much as you want your score to dwarf your friends’, you simultaneously benefit from their high scores through another ranking tier called Wizard Score. Your pinball skill level is calculated in a Superscore, which is based on your skills across all of Pinball FX 2’s tables. The high-score competition isn’t just about achieving a high score on a table. If a friend beats your score and wants to brag, you’ll be alerted through a gloating Xbox Live message. The score battle takes place even when you aren’t playing. If you let this window affect you, like I did, it can up the intensity. I told myself that I wouldn’t let this window distract me, but I couldn’t take my eyes off of it. As your score inches closer to theirs, the game updates you with the number of points required to break their score. And it’s not just their image that throws off your game. Even without having your friend near you, this image establishes the sensation that they are taunting you. Rather than displaying a high-score meter onscreen at all times, a window containing an image of a friend’s avatar wearing a crown will appear when your score approaches theirs. The way Zen Studios achieves this standing is much different from what I’ve seen in any other game. Sans watered-down beer, Zen Studios’ Pinball FX 2 brings the silver ball’s lost social legacy to Xbox Live. When arcades were thriving and bars didn’t make the mistake of replacing their pinball tables with Big Buck Hunter machines, a pinball competition with friends (and that weird drunk guy no one seemed to know) was a great way to spend a Friday night. The nice variety of pinball machines and the possible promise of more pinball machines coming down the pipeline make Pinball VR one of the stronger PSVR titles to come out this fall.Pinball is designed to be a social game. If you’re a fan of pinball games or looking for something to distract you while the next great VR game launches, Pinball FX2 VR is a great game to check out. Add to that the Walking Dead Table, which is $6.99 USD ($7.99 CDN) and you’re looking at a total of $61.00 CDN, which I felt is a little steep for a pinball title, especially considering if you bought any of these tables from previous games those purchases don’t transfer over. Cough up more money for the Season One pass which gets you five tables and you’ll be paying $24.99 USD ($33.49 CDN). Pinball FX2 VR retails for $14.99 USD ($19.99 CDN) and you only get three tables. There’s two add ons you can purchase for the game including a Season 1 Pass that’ll get you 5 additional tables and a Walking Dead table. The core package includes three tables including Mars, Secrets of the Deep and Epic Quest.
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