Play It budget titles
Pinball, Road Trip Adventure, Seek And Destroy - are they worth ?10 each?
Pinball
First up, "classic American pinball like you've never seen it before." There are eleven faithfully recreated full-3D tables on offer here straight out of the 1950s. Unfortunately, pinball tables in the 1950s were inexorably dull compared to - say - good pinball tables like the ones we have now, and that dullness is only compounded by the fact that you are not standing in your favourite bar with a pint by your feet, shrieking pals by your side, ducking and weaving and pouring actual sweat into beating the all-time best.
No. You're actually sat on your sodding couch with a PS2 controller in your hands, enduring load times in which you could build the tables yourself out of MDF, awful shopping centre muzak wearing your mind away as if someone was actually rubbing it with a cheese grater, probably stuffing a lukewarm Ginsters steak and kidney pie into your pallid face, the will to live slowly slipping away... slipping... away...
The game mainly consists of the Challenge mode, in which you have to beat a set score and move on to the next. Beat tables in that mode and you can play them whenever you like in Free Play. That's it. Thing is, Play It's Pinball title doesn't actually look all that bad; the table graphics are nice and crisp, the fact that the tables are fully-rotatable is quite admirable (even if we can't get close enough to the top of the tables to see what's going on), and there are even what appear to be real-time reflections coming off the ball. It's just a shame that the tables themselves are so painfully average that we couldn't bear to sit around trying to unlock each and every one. Next!