![]() What’s awesome is that I’m completely underselling these moments. It’d be nice if Zen could patch Yoda down a little bit so we can enjoy an otherwise solid table.Įach table features at least 5 scenes from the movie or show, complete with little interactions like dodging asteroids as a Tie Fighter orbits the area, talking to the gatekeeper droid from Jabba’s Palace, and dispatching bounties as Boba Fett. He comments about every 2 seconds (sometimes less) and by the time you reach your first million points you are reaching for the mute button. The second table, Clone Wars, features Yoda….a lot. Surprisingly, Vader and Han come up a little short, but it could just be that we have those voices so well associated with the iconic actors involved that it’s hard to hear any deviation. All of the voice work in the game is done with sound-alikes, and most of them do a decent job. Getting the ball back in play after an early-game loss with the classic Storm Trooper phrase “Move along…” is cool to hear as well. Sound effects are lifted directly from the movie scenes, so authenticity is a lock. Boba Fett is based on the character’s clumsy demise, so it features the Sarlacc pit and all of the brown colors that go with it. The Clone Wars table is bright and colorful, using more soft colors like we saw in the Cartoon Network show by the same name. The artwork on all three is pretty solid, though Leia does look a little bit like Daniel Tosh from Tosh.0, but maybe that’s just my opinion. Empire stars with a closeup of Vader, Clone Wars gives us a movie-intro text scroll complete with voiceover, and Boba Fett has the bounty hunter flying high above the table. Personally, I spent the bulk of my play time with Empire.Įach of the tables start with a table flyby. Depending on what you’d like to do you’ll find it easy to choose between the three. ![]() Clone Wars feels like a balance of the two, and I found it probably the easiest to trigger the special minigames. Boba Fett has a little less going on in the center of the table, but it is a far faster game. Empire feels like a longer table with a lot more opportunities for minigames and frequent multiball triggers. ![]() That means scoreboards (both local and global), local hotseat for up to 4 players (pass and play), 8 different camera angles that you can switch on the fly, 3D support, fully-adjustable controls, and the ability to tweak the tables to turn off things like score pop-ups, slow motion (rarely used), sound levels (though voice adjusting is not an option), and screen position.Įach of the three tables are vastly different. The Zen Pinball 2 platform serves as the base for every table Zen releases, so all three of these tables have the same base set of features as previous tables like The Avengers. The three are entitled Star Wars: Episode V, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and Star Wars: Boba Fett – obvious titular references to the movie, show, and character by the same name. After a short sub-200mb download, I added three tables to my ever-expanding list of Zen Pinball tables. Let’s channel our inner Pinball Wizard and find out if Star Wars Pinball is more IV, V, and VI, or if it manages to Jar Jar it’s way to the bottom of the franchise.įor the review I chose the PlayStation 3 version as the crossover to the Vita was obvious – pinball on the go is a no-brainer. We’ve run reviews on several of their tables in the past, but if there is one particular crossover that everyone was waiting for, it is the Star Wars franchise. While the coin-operated medium is becoming far more rare these days (they were also banned for a while! Seriously, go watch that documentary), the pinball world is alive and well thanks to one company in particular – Zen Studios. I had just finished watching a documentary on Netflix called “Special When Lit” that talked about the unfortunate demise of the pinball industry when my code for Star Wars Pinball arrived.
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