![]() Thanks for your support!**# Be sure to visit us at Follow us on Twitter at !/zen_studios or Like us on Facebook at game trailers on YouTube at. Other Star Wars Pinball tables can be purchased as in-app purchases.Additional Star Wars Pinball tables are coming soon!May the Force be with you!**For players already enjoying Star Wars™ Pinball tables in Zen Pinball HD, we want to give you a heads up that there is no way for us to transfer purchases or make tables available in both apps. Choose to support the Galactic Empire or the Rebel Alliance with your high scores as the Star Wars Pinball community fights for the Balance of the Force!The initial Star Wars Pinball download comes with the Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back table. And if you do plump for this, realise that this is pinball you are playing in name only.Set in a galaxy far, far away, Star Wars Pinball lets you interact with the most iconic characters, and relive the greatest moments of the Star Wars universe mixed with exciting pinball action! Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, Darth Vader, Starfighter Assault, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and Boba Fett. There are plenty of free ways to try the pinball apps on your iPad, so make sure you give Zen a go before you commit to this as your money sink of choice. You'll know the type, they saw Pinball Dreams on the Amiga and thought wow this is amazing, who needs to visit the arcade or local pub! Alas this is not pinball, it's either made by people who don't love the real thing, people who have only experienced the real thing second hand, or people who would dearly love to recreate the experience of the real thing but the maths and coding to do that is beyond them. Conclusion What can I say, this is pinball for people who have never experienced pinball. Firstly I had to turn my iPad upside down to get it to the angle I wanted, and secondly it tilts side to side too which was annoying. I will give one quick mention to the camera options though, one of which tilts as you tilt your device so you can sort of lean over, but it really didn't work well for me. ![]() Pinball machines have a multitude of surfaces that the ball rides along and hits against, combined with the tilt of the table and the gravitational affect that has. It might sort of mostly move at the speed of the real thing, but it doesn't feel or behave like it does. ![]() With flippers already making things feel very unrealistic, the ball doesn't help either. I'm not saying getting emulating the physics of this is remotely easy, but if you can't do it right then don't bother doing it at all. Alas, Pinball HD gets both of them wrong, the flippers on some tables seem insanely long and thin, and on all of them they seem to slow. Madness! It's All About the Physics When you have a game with essentially two dominant mechanics, a heavy metal ball and a small number of flippers that can either be turned on or off, and not much else, it's important to get these right. Yet I couldn't see Platoon, Navy Seals and Missing in Action as being options to buy in the paid release, and BFMV in the free one. So whilst in theory you can try the free version, then buy the two tables that come with the paid for version, this costs you more than just buying the paid one. However it seems some IAP tables are available in one and not the other, which seems nothing but stupid to me. Both free and non-free versions include the Wild West table unlocked, the paid version adds The Deep and Jungle Style tables on top of that. Unlike Zen tables, you actually get to try these before you buy, though I'm not exactly sure even after playing a few what the mechanics of how long it lets you play them for are. Both offer in-app purchases so you can get more tables for around the £1.49 to £1.99 mark, making them comparable to the higher priced Zen tables. Free or Not Free Confusion Right, okay, there are two apps currently on the appstore from the same company, one called Pinball HD which costs money, the other Pinball HD Collection which is free. Which leads me nicely onto Pinball HD by OOM Gameprom, and also Pinball HD Collection by the same people. I want something that feels enough like I'm playing a real machine, and looks good. But how to define that? Quite easily I think, its mostly about control and feel, and a little bit about how it looks.
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