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What The Empire Strikes Back Looks Like In Pinball Form

I can't stop staring at table-art Mark Hamill.

Feb. 13 2013

Posted by: Brad

In This Episode:

Zen Pinball 2

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Wheres Lando At???? Billy D needs to get his

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YEAR OF LUIGI! DAMN YOU NINTENDO!

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Really hoping this makes its way over to PBFX2. I'd absolutely love to play this.

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Could they really not get Mark Hamill to do the voice of Luke? I bet he's not up to much at the moment.

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I really enjoyed Pinball FX2. I have most of the tables but I've started to enjoy their work less and less with each branded title that comes out. Having small animations on the table as in Sorcerer's Lair is fine and actually adds something to the experience. Having a full size Wolverine leap around the table and fight Sabretooth is a cool effect but it's ultimately distracting to the gameplay experience. I wish Zen had stuck with making regular pinball tables that featured a few arcady elements instead of making arcade machines with a few pinball elements. Pinball Arcade is doing something closer to what I want but I'm so pissed off at myself for purchasing their table on XBOX first, never anticipating the disaster that would be their XBOX distribution system. All that being said, I will probably not let Zen know my displeasure with their current product because as a Star Wars nerd I'll picking these tables up regardless of the bad taste they leave in my mouth (which is something they are rightly counting on).

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Man, I played the living crap out of the Star Wars pinball machine that came out in the early ninties. It's the only pinball game I ever got any good at.

This new one seems ok. I do like pinball fx, but as others have said, I don't like when they add elements that couldn't be reproduced in real life.

Seems an odd complaint for a video game, if you are going to call it pinball I think it should stay somewhat grounded.

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This just looks annoying, a lot of irritating stuff flying/moving across the playfield it just idiotic design, to bad.

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Man, virtual fictional pinball tables suck. None of the mechanical charm of playing an actual pinball table, or an accurate representation of a real one.

I don't want to see poorly 3D-animated Luke and Vader fucking swordfighting while i'm playing pinball.

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I thought I was totally sick of Star Wars! This trailer made me feel like I was 15 again. I have to play these tables

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I love pinball FX, I love Star wars, whats not to love. ice cream and steak sandwiches here i come.

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looks good, I'll be downloading it

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I wish those Pinball Arcade guys would do a digital version of the ACTUAL Star Wars pinball machine.

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@legendarychopchop: Its so hypnotizing!

I like what they're trying to do, its pretty much taking all those little simple animations from the display and making them pretty awesome.

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I really enjoyed Marvel Pinball (except the Iron Man table). I think its probably my most played game on my 3DS, so this will likely be an insta-purchase providing the price is in the same ball park.

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Not sure I'm feeling super confident of the cleaned up voice work. It feels wrong.