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Not what I expected

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: June 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have been an avid pinball player and was excited to try this game. It was a letdown, there are a number of viewing angles, all of which are not very good. There should have been more instructions on how to play the game, it took me a while to figure out how to shoot the plunger so I could get started. All in all I was very dissapointed, it did not have the feel of a real pinball machine.

Good Idea Poorly Done

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: July 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I saw this on line and said to myself I just have to have this.
I put it in my Wii I was disappointed. Did not have many of The William's classics . The back glass pictures are faded. The camera work is jerky at best. Not recommended

Always Rent a Wii Game before purchasing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 31, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game was not what i expected. It was too hard to control the ball, and not nearly as entertaining as the reviews made it sound. From now on i will rent a game before i buy it for me wii.

Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: August 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Sorry, but I do not find this to be a very good pinball game. I have 4 of Sierra's pinball games for my PC and I LOVE them. I am a rather avid pinball player, like good graphics, lots of action. I have all those in Sierra's games. I just thought that a pinball game for the Wii would be very good graphically, and it just isn't in my opinion. I was dismally disappointed. I played the games thru one night and I haven't even been interested in it enough to get it out again. Maybe Sierra can make some pinball games for the Wii? This just seemed to be too much like a very cheap PC pinball game.

Fun for One

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 15
Date: May 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is the second pinball game I have purchased for the WII and I must admit it is not my favorite. While the graphics are good and the play is challenging, it really works best for one player. For the life of me, I could not find a way to get the game to allow the use of two controllers. So that means in order to allow 2 players, you must pass the controller back and forth. Not my idea of fun!

But to be honest, overall it is a good game if you like pinball.

Pinball Hall of Fame

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is lots of fun as I have spent many hours on it already, and yes, you can tilt the "machine." It brought back memories of my youth and is almost like playing the real game!

Great Graphics, Fair Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I've been a fan of real pinball all my life and have played most of the popular tables. I've also played video pinball since the days of the early DOS based games. Quite frankly, this game has some of the best graphics I've ever seen, but the gameplay leaves me flat. Way too many balls are lost down the side after launch without any opportunity to hit them. It also seems that when you have a good ball, the program punishes you by having a bad ball right away. "Bumping" the table is of very little help. And if you're over thirty, you'll probably be looking for the audio option to turn the annoying techno-music between games down or off!

The Williams tables are great, but I hope someone comes out with some of the old Bally tables next.

Best Video Pinball to date.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 12 / 12
Date: March 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Being a pinball nut, I basically collect all things pin-related; videogame recreations of the silver ball game being one of them. Through the years, It has gotten progressively better with the Super Pinball series, the Pro Pinball series, and the incredible DIY future pinball and visual pinball releases. I've got to say, after having played this for a few hours, Pinball Hall of Fame: the Williams Collection is hands-down the best simulation to date. First and foremost, all camera and physics issues I had problems with in the Gottlieb collection have been taken care of - I've yet to feel that sinking feeling that the camera can't keep up with a ball hurtling toward the center gap - the "Smart Camera" truly is smart.
The recreations themselves are spot-on. Having spent some serious time on most of the machines represented here in their actual form, I was pleased that almost all the tables held up (no experience personally with Jive Time - and really... that's the EM machine you choose out of all of them for this? seems bizarre.. ) to their real-life counterparts.
The control in this game certainly raises VP games to a new level - the simple act of being able to have your hands seperated between the remote and nunchuk like you would on a real machine helps quite a bit, and being able to tilt the machine with gestures is just fantastic and really brings you into the game.
Now, the most MAJOR improvement for me between this game and the gottlieb one is this: No more freakin' crickets in the background. What was the deal with that? In this version, you can choose to just hear the table itself, which is a godsend. The gottleb version had this amazingly annoying cricket just chirping in the background to add to the "realism"..>!!!! but with no option to step on it as you would want to in real life.
While- of course, this is no substitute for the real thing, The Williams Collection does an impressive job of capturing the essence of the game as well as its addictive quality .. "just one more game..." Now - if Crave could just release more of these titles with the same engine!!!!! Maybe download more tables via Wii-Ware in the future? ah, we can only hope. Hopefully more than 5 people buy this, it's a great addition to the Wii library!!!!

Pretty dang awesome!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 14 / 15
Date: March 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I just spent the last few hours happily reliving memories from decades ago when I used to play some of the ten actual tables contained in this game during the golden age of arcades. I remember the last time I played Funhouse was just a few weeks before the arcade that had it was closed. I haven't played it again since until now, and thanks to the careful attention to detail paid by the games developers, it is just as I remember.

The games controls are very well executed on the Wii Remote + Nunchuck. It takes no time at all to pick up and responds just like a real pinball machine. You can even shake the controls to shake the pinball machine...not too much though or you'll tilt!

Event the original sound effects from each machine have been carefully reproduced and sounds exactly like they did on the actual machine, down to the early voice synthesis technology built into pinball games like "Black Knight". Even the LED scoreboards are there and behave exactly like the real thing.

I really liked the main interface of the game. It's designed to look like the quintessential video & pinball arcade from your memories, complete with it's own loud rock music soundtrack-including a track that sounds very much like "Pinball Wizard".

To up the replay value, the develops have added all sorts of goals on each game. On some tables you have to achieve certain scores, on others you must execute complex maneuvers to receive bonus credits, which you can use to unlock some extra features.

I've been waiting for "Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection" to come out for a long time. Evidently, it was announced some time ago, but was subject to production delays and just now finally became available.

Overall, I really like this game. If you're a big fan of Williams pinball machines, this is a great way to relive some of their best games from the 1970s and 1980s.

I really hope the developers release a second volume containing Williams tables from the 1990s...there were some awesome tables made in that decade that'd I'd love to get the chance to play again.

Best pinball collection (see review for others)

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you enjoy pinball, get this. If you do not enjoy pinball, don't! If you are curious, this is a good place to start (or check out vpforums.com). The Wii controls are much nicer for pinball than the other platforms, since your hands are apart, using the triggers on the WiiMote and the Nunchuck controllers independently. Other platforms make you use the triggers on a gamepad, which doesn't feel the same. The nudge recognition is too easy to set off, but it is not a big problem, only an occasional annoyance. (Tilting is turned off at first.)

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