A great blast to the past and just about a 5 star game to boot!
Great job! Continuing their fine work with porting over this classic pinball series, Pinball Dreams HD is another fine entry, but this time with a superb fresh coat of paint via a 3d upgrade. Graphics are great, the play is fun (but more on that in a second) and the design/modes on these 4 tables (and the integration of gamecentre) will ensure repeat playtimes for quite a while... a true winner.
But, there is room for improvement, as with the non-hd versions, I find the flippers to be somewhat slow in responding to activation; either via the flippers being too slow, or just a plain delay in response. This is something that can be compensated somewhat the more you play, but give pinball HD a try and youll see what I mean by instant response which imho is needed to fully appreciate any pinball table. Still, this is serviceable and as mentioned, can be compensated, so the game is still deserving of a 4 star. However, either a tweak to improve this OR at least providing a customization option where we can tweak this to our liking and this review turns into an instant 5 star.
Next up... I wish: Aside from giving the HD treatment to Pinball Fantasies and Pinball Illusions (still waiting for this one :) ), I would love (and hope) that the license can permit a "Pinball Dreams HD Enhanced" where the same tables are given a modern facelift via graphical tweats, additional modes, DMD and most importantly multiball. Heres hoping anyway
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Pinball Dreams HD, v1.1