Zaccaria Pinball (Steam VR)

VR Shop Score – Bronze Award

System: Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift & Windows MR
Price at Time Of Review: Free
Comfort Rating: Green
Genre: Arcade
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers, Gamepad, Keyboard & Mouse
Best Playing Position: Standing or Sitting
Multi-Player: Yes
Age Rating: 15+

 

Description: Zaccaria was founded by three brothers (Marino, Franco, & Natale) and was the 3rd largest manufacturer of pinball machines in the world (behind Bally & Williams). They had created and produced more than 35 different pinball machines between 1974 and 1987.

Review: Zaccaria Pinball is a great collection of Zaccaria pinball tables from the 70’s and 80’s that are now collector’s items and something of a rarity, especially in arcades. If you like your virtual pinball games this is right up there with the best of them. All the tables are accurately detailed and the sound effects are spot on. You probably don’t need me to tell you that you only get one table for free and the rest you need to buy and there is a total of 35 tables from various ages of the real-world company.

You might be thinking that this is the point that I recommend you download it and give it a go! But I won’t be doing that for one simple reason. To play the free table or indeed any of the game in VR you need to buy a download DLC extra that costs £10.99! Yep, that means £10.99 for one virtual pinball game! It doesn’t matter how good the game is, what matters is this…”fee” is unacceptable and until it is made free I am going to suggest us VR fans avoid this like the plague.