Pro Pinball also manages to look more real than its iOS contemporaries, largely due to some serious rendering clout that's gone on during production.
It feels more like the 'real' pinball tables you find in Pinball Arcade than your typical digital pinball. It lacks the immediacy and friendliness of Atomic Pinball Collection and isn't terribly forgiving. It's worth noting, though, that this is not a simple table to play. Regardless of what you're doing, the controls are solid and responsive (the swipe-based tilt being especially successful), although it'd be nice to see custom button placement for ball launches and the magnosave in an update. The rules and missions are such that Timeshock! rewards considered play and planning, rather than luck, and it has a varied tempo that can shift from dizzyingly fast loop combos to simple and rather sedate arcade mini-games that take place in the pin-sharp dot-matrix display. There, you find a maze of ramps and orbits, peppered with features representing your mission (a shiny time machine, and a glowing green time crystal) and those illustrating various time periods. The playfield is quite open near the flippers, but rapidly grows in complexity towards the edges. Originally released in 1997, it's the most famous of the Pro Pinball series, and involves travelling through time to four ages (prehistoric, Roman, present day, and future), to perform goals that will reverse a shockwave of anti-time that's about to blow up everything. If you're a gamer of a certain age and inclination, seeing the word 'pro' followed by 'pinball' will evoke a certain kind of joy.Īnd now the acclaimed series, originally for PC but later also console, has finally landed on iOS - after two Kickstarters and the kind of lengthy development cycle that would have whiffed of vapourware had Barnstorm Games not regularly uploaded YouTube teasers.įor now, Timeshock! is the only table.
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