System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: £10.99
Comfort Rating: Green (No Movement)
Genre: Arcade
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers, Gamepad
Best Playing Position: Sitting
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG
Description: Experience digital pinball as never before in Pinball FX2 VR, a groundbreaking new pinball game from the digital pinball pioneers Zen Studios! Pinball FX2 VR features advanced physics, detailed 3D graphics, and original tables from the pinball wizards at Zen.
Pinball FX2 VR replicates the atmosphere of real-life pinball machines in a virtual play space, while presenting gameplay features and effects that you simply cannot recreate on a physical machine. Additionally, the game’s rich scoreboards will track your Super Score, Wizard Score, table stats and more to let you compete against players from all over the world!
Review: As you first enter the hub/menu room you start to put doubt into your mind whether or not you are going to enjoy this game. The room looks a little basic and looking around you can’t see many pinball tables to play. But once you do decide on a table to play all those fears vanish. The tables look amazing and the sounds make you feel like you really are playing one in real life! But it’s all been done before I hear you cry. The VR aspect means the whole room surrounding the pinball table becomes alive and themed to each table you play. Choose the space one and spaceships and meteorites fly around you, and while you might think this would be rather distracting it feels immersive and only helps to put you into the pinball playing zone even more.
It looks great, sounds great and plays like a dream. I think this is as close to owning a real pinball table as most of us will ever get (unless you will the lottery). You could have a little moan about the lack of tables to play compared to other incarnations of the game, but so much extra work goes into this VR version it is kind of understandable. If you love your pinball, this is one of the best pinball table simulations you will ever play.
