This is the penultimate pinball sim for consoles.

User Rating: 8.5 | Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection X360
By FishPicker | Review Date:
This is the penultimate pinball sim for consoles. Farsight did a great job when they chose the Williams brand for their collection of tables and reproduced them faithfully. Williams had manufactured pinball tables since the electro-mechanical era and was a source of innovation in the production of solid state pinball tables. That is where the Williams brand really took off and dominated pinball design. That is also where Pinball H.O.F. the Williams Collection begins. The pinball table, Gorgar, was released in 1979 and is the first table in this collection. Medieval Madness came out in 1999 and it is the last in the collection. the other 10 tables all come from that 20 year span of time.

It should be noted that Pinball H.O.F. is at its best when viewed in HD. So I would recommend the PS3 or 360 versions of this game over the others that don't support HDMI. The graphics are easily the best aspect of this game. The artwork of the playing fields really pop. The silver ball is always easy to track on the field. The most amazing part is all the reflections. The playing field and the lights are reflected on the silver ball. The silver ball is reflected onto the playing field and the silver ball reflects off of the back wall and table features. The game play is great because of the ball physics. The silver ball is effected by momentum, spin, position, magnets, speed and even chance. Sometimes the ball takes a funky and unpredictable bounce on a routine shot. That is so pinball-esque, I would say that it is the essence of pinball.

this game is incredible but I cannot give it a perfect score because it has one flaw. The online features were completely overlooked and the online scoreboards are navigable only by scrolling. Finding friends scores is nearly impossible.

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