{"id":18643,"date":"2019-01-16T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T00:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=18643"},"modified":"2018-12-30T17:36:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T17:36:05","slug":"pinball-fx3-williams-pinball-volume-2-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/16\/pinball-fx3-williams-pinball-volume-2-ps4-switch-xbox-one-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinball FX3: Williams Pinball Volume 2 (PS4, Switch, Xbox One, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>For many years, Zen Studios has been making original video pinball tables for their Pinball FX and Zen Pinball outlets.\u00a0 Now for the first time, they\u2019re tackling real life classic pinball machines in video form from the Williams lineup.\u00a0 Volume 2 of this set includes three more tables.\u00a0 To play them, first you need to download the Pinball FX3 hub (available for most current consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here).\u00a0 And then you can buy and download table sets.<\/p>\n

The Williams tables are handled a bit differently than the other Zen Studios\u2019 originals.\u00a0 First, you can play with either the Pinball FX3 table upgrade system or the original specs from the arcade.\u00a0 And with a push of a button, you can switch visuals to make the tables look like the other Zen Studios tables with extra graphics, or the original way the tables looked in real life.\u00a0 Also when you start a game, you get a full view of the machine with facts and history on each one.\u00a0 In a way, I like this setup and gameplay better than the Zen original tables.<\/p>\n

Really the only problem I have with Volume 2 is the tables aren\u2019t as recognizable to me.\u00a0 Volume One had The Getaway 2 and Medieval Madness, two tables I remember very well and still see in arcades!\u00a0\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how I missed reviewing that set!\u00a0 Oh well.\u00a0 Volume 2 only has one table I remember, Attack From Mars.\u00a0 I think that must\u2019ve been a pretty popular one since it also got a sequel and remake.<\/p>\n

One cool thing is that you get a table for free: Fish Tales, which of course has a fishing theme.\u00a0 The tables on Volume 2 include Black Rose, which has a pirate theme.\u00a0 The neat thing about this table is that there is a cannon below the field where you can aim and shoot pinballs from.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how I can describe The Party Zone.\u00a0 It\u2019s weird but also colorful and entertaining, at least.\u00a0 And last is the aforementioned Attack From Mars, which has a cheesy B-Movie sci-fi UFO motif.\u00a0 I can\u2019t wait to see what other tables they remake in future volumes.\u00a0 I\u2019d love to see a Pinbot collection with all three in the series, or Cirqus Voltaire, my all-time favorite pinball machine.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

All Pinball FX3 tables are rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Fantasy Violence and Mild Language.\u00a0 Nothing really objectionable on these tables that I could see.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the menus, but not necessary just to play.\u00a0 Just pure, simple fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For many years, Zen Studios has been making original video pinball tables for their Pinball FX and Zen Pinball outlets.\u00a0 Now for the first time, they\u2019re tackling real life classic pinball machines in video form from the Williams lineup.\u00a0 Volume 2 of this set includes three more tables.\u00a0 To play them, first you need to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18645,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18643\/revisions\/18645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}