#Pinball hd collection iphone full#

I didn't find that to be much of a problem since when the ball appears, you have a bit of time to react to it instead of having it quickly shoot toward the flippers. (I guess they were worried about copyright infringement.) This table is more complex than Wild West Pinball and by design, your ball can be temporarily hidden behind some eye candy. Jungle Style Pinball adds bit of a nonsense story line involving getting a gold ball out of a maze, hidden treasures, a downed helicopter, a huge ape named Big Kong. The design doesn't hide the ball behind objects and although it appears simple, there are a handful of tasks to accomplish as you play along. In it you'll find an Indian village, a bank and railway robbery, a bad guy to knock off, a gold mine to plunder and a lot more, while country music plays. Wild West Pinball is the simplest and most uncluttered game. Tapping on a game's fly-over screen starts game play. Swiping right brings up Gameprom news and swiping left brings up the local score screen.

Swipe either up or down to get to the other two games. When running the app, you are presented with a 3D simulated camera zoom, pan and fly-over of one of the games. I can sum up the experience by saying that it 'felt right.' The physics seemed quite realistic and the flippers were very responsive. This was probably corrected in the most recent revision which is just a few days old. Gizmodo, in reviewing this app, complained of choppy frame rates, but I didn't find that to be the case at all. Regardless of the game, the graphics are wonderfully detailed and the animation is very smooth. It's as good, or as bad as any other app that requires colored glasses. This is less a limitation of the game than the one imposed by using any anaglyph system. The images had a great deal of depth and the effect was quite impressive, but there were many ghost images which, in a fast game, can get confusing. In practice, however I found the 3D less than satisfying. Allowing this variety of choices is something that I've never before seen in an app. Any glasses you have around the house will work since you can choose between red-cyan, green-magenta or yellow-blue lenses. The stereoscopic imaging option requires anaglyph eyeglasses. I'm sure displaying this required some heavy-duty processing to pull off, but I found that playing with it enabled didn't slow the game down one bit. Camera tilt only works in landscape mode. Camera tilt brings dimensionality to the games offering a simulated 3D effect where the image changes depending upon how you tilt the iPad. These are not well documented on the either the Gameprom site or in the app, unfortuately. These let you choose between playing the game music or using output from the iPod app, and enabling or disabling voices, camera tilt and stereoscopic imaging.

There are also user-selectable options found by scrolling through the Settings app and choosing Pinball HD.

Unique soundtracks using music, sound effects and voices.

At the end of each game you are prompted to enter your name and have your score included. Swiping right brings up a table of local high scores and further tapping brings up high scores from copies sold throughout the world.

Make sure to swipe left and right when viewing since the instructions don't fit on one screen. Tap the circled 'I' at the bottom left of each board to get a display detailing instructions and descriptions of the features of each table.

A wonderful 3D engine that does true justice to the graphic capabilities of the iPad.

If you activate the screen orientation switch, the game only plays in portrait mode. This can only be played when holding the iPad with the button on the bottom.

Portrait mode gives you a flying-table view with the camera panning and zooming over the action.

The games can be played in either landscape orientation with the button to the left or right of the screen.

#Pinball hd collection iphone full#

Landscape mode shows a full table view.

Each of the three tables in the game has an individual personality and differing levels of complexity and difficulty, but let's start with the features they all have in common.