Dream Pinball 3D

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $13.20

Features:

• 6 tables with various themes. Multi-ball mode - 3 balls at once.
• Sounds and music with brilliant lighting. Multiplayer mode-up to 4 gamers.
• 6 dynamic + 1 fixed camera position.
• Pinball simulation game with realistic physics.
• Balls made out of 6 materials such as: steel, wood, marble, ivory and gold.

Customer Reviews:

Poor graphics [Posted on 2008-08-18]
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.

Dream Pinball [Posted on 2008-09-01]
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.

Absorbing game worth the price [Posted on 2008-09-17]
After renting this game a couple of times from Blockbuster, my boyfriend and I decided to buy it. We both love pinball, but we had tried some games that were less than enthusing. We were not disappointed with Dream Pinball, however. There are several pinball "machines" to choose from, each with a different theme, easy, hard, and expert options of play, and multiple players are allowed. My only issue is that you can't use more than one Wii remote, so if you're playing more than one player, you have to pass the remote around. Still, an entertaining game overall.

like playing monopoly without reading what the game squares say [Posted on 2008-10-30]
First the good: like your first 2 foot long toy pinball table as a kid, this game is playable. You can hit the ball over and over and have fun just doing that. You can listen to the voice-over and get many of the bonus quests. Its not a terrible game. And the game is 'easy'... I dont know what the programmers expected, but even with my problems with this game, and in hard mode, i blew the default high score outta the water by a factor of 3 on my first day...

Another poster here said the controls were bad... I'd like to say HUH???? Left and right trigger are the paddle/flipper controls. Jiggle your controller(s) to nudge table. How can it possibly be easier or better? Telepathic conrols? No, the controls are fine.

The flipper animation is terrible though - they are either down or up... no smooth motion in between or even physics that take the in-between motion into account.

And now the bad:
Though it's not a terrible 'GAME' its a terrible "PINBALL GAME"!! No camera angles let you read what any of the on-table text says, especially at the far end of the table.

The ball-follow camera is slow: more than once, while the ball went fast to the gutter, the camera lagged behind and i had to use the flippers blind cuz they were off-screen...

Showing the full table is useless on a tv screen!! The lights and text are a bunch of colored blobs! You cannot read or tell what any of the targets do in full table view. Actually you cant read any text in any view really (except a few x2 or x5 type text), yet the game fights to try and keep you in full table view too often. And the camera angles are too similar.

It NEEDS a closer, flat, top-down view that scrolls up and down the table like the classic "PINBALL DREAMS" did. (a great pinball game).

The game keeps trying to show off its 3d-ness by zooming and panning around.... we dont need this!! We just need a stable, close and clear view of the table details that keeps up with the ball!!

Ball launch suffers from an even worse fate: you cannot see the full table at all so you have no way to judge how hard to hit the ball with the plunger. All you see is the launch corner of the table... I mean sometimes you want to try to hit a target straight outta the launcher by going light on the plunger but this game doesnt let you see the table during launch so forget it.

Also, due to lack of visual detail, the extra flippers are hard to see.. You dont know where your 3rd, 4th, etc flippers are unless you just keep hitting your flipper button over and over to see them working.

Another gamer here posted that the Williams "hall of fame" pinball game is so much better.... Well, I admit it has much much better ball physics and is harder (in a good way). But it has ALL the same camera and unreadability problems that this game has!! If you HAVE to choose between only these two games, i'd say go with the Williams games for authenticity and Dream Pinball for more easy going, hit-the-ball casual gameplay.

Again though, stick with the old school Pinball Dreams and its many sequals for truly good video pinball. Amazon sells it as part of the Amiga classix 4 i believe. The pc port is inferior from what i hear

Dream Pinball Review [Posted on 2008-12-30]
Dream Pinball 3D is a challenging pinball game with multiple levels/machines to unlock and play. The game has lots of replay value because it keeps track of the high scores per level/machine. If you love pinball this game is definitely worth playing.

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