Once you're confident you can get the ball through the ranks, you fire up through the orbitals and go for it. Basically, what you're doing is shooting lanes to build up a pass meter, which in turn eliminates small foosball-like defenders in the goal area. It's your job to prevent the other team from scoring while working your way up to a special goal area and finding the net for yourself. A timer counts down the halves of a soccer game, a scoreboard to show the score. The setup is simple, victory not so much. Note: There are eight 'Super League Football' tables, which are themed after specific football clubs, but share the same basic design.Īs the most recently released and one of Zen Studios' finest tables to date, 'Super League Football' is at the forefront of this review. Zen Studios would have easily thrived in the burgeoning days of arcade pinball.įortunately for them, they've found a way to keep the tradition going, and it's going pretty well. Scroll down to the Video and Audio sections for more on that.Īnd, happily, in all the realism is a collection of truly entertaining and challenging tables. And then there's the sound effects and overall presentation. Entering your highscore initials takes an annoyingly long time (yes, I consider that a good thing), as it's displayed longways like it would be on an electronic scoreboard. You can tilt the table, and be punished for it. Mostly though, the tables stay realistic and there are a number of small touches that should keep a nostalgic smile on any old-schooler's face. Zombies' table, Zen does stretch a bit into the fantastical. On rare occasion, as with 'The Plants vs. You won't see the ball floating around or teleporting, nor will you see any dramatic table evolutions that could only happen in a game. Importantly, most of the tables feature physically possible attributes, and the few that utilize the impossibilities of virtual space do so in such a way that it doesn't intrude on the core experience. The ball isn't following set lanes or gravitating toward lanes and bumpers. In conjunction with realistically crafted tables, the weight and bounciness of the ball makes predicting angles and opportune flipper timing as natural as possible for any veteran player. Zen Studios can, and does, on a regular basis.Ī couple of things ensure 'Zen Pinball 2,' available on a variety of platforms and consoles, keeps it real:
They can't convince you that you're at an arcade or in your basement with your eyes peeled to the table in front. That's something those more video gamey pinball games simply can't do. But now they've put out the 'Super League Football' tables on the PS4, which while different in design from the classic 'World Cup Soccer '94', evoke that same sense of progression and achievement. Zen Studios and their noble devotion to realistic pinball recreation was already on my radar when they were releasing their first tables. With objectives so obvious but goals so hard to reach, it's no wonder that at my young age I grew attached to the machine. You see, it was one of those tables with a long-term goal that not only injected life into every tap of the flipper, it grew the stakes of the game beyond the high score. It was retro and it was fun, but it didn't compare to the other table, Bally's 'World Cup Soccer '94.' If I ever love a pinball table it's only in comparison to the extravagant, boisterous event of turning on that table and fighting my way into the World Cup. The first, 'Big Indian,' was your typical score-hunting fare with the unique twist of showing four scorecards at the same time in flip-number fashion. Growing up I was lucky enough to have two pinball tables in my home.
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