![]() What this means is that, as the ball careers around and the (virtual) servos fire, you feel the table 'alive' under your fingers and thumbs. Both of these can be adjusted according to personal preference: This 1-2-3 juggling move is hard to pull off on a real table - and it's perfectly possible here too, for immense player satisfaction and another vote of confidence in the physics engine here.Īdding to the sense of realism is the use of the phone's vibration system and accelerometer sensors. My favourite 'expert' move on a real table is when a ball is about to go down the centre at a very slight angle and I manage to deflect it very slightly with one flipper, then catch it on the end of the other, before relaxing the first and using it to get further purchase and fire the ball off up the table again. It's still pinball, but it's simpler and rather extravagantly themed, from beaches to Aztec temples.Īll great fun and Dr Pickaxe is the most fun I've had in a phone pinball game for a long, long time. Note two things especially: firstly, the extra flipper top-right, giving you the possibility of firing the ball back up into the top section for extra points.Īnd secondly the central target - hit this after knocking down enough surrounding targets and you're transported to one of the various mini-games. There are the usual bonuses, power ups and modes to explore and activate. And the setting for the slant of the table is just perfect - something many other pinball games on computers get hopelessly wrong. The response of the flippers and general speed of the game is tremendous, it really does feel as if you're fighting with mechanical flippers and servos throughout. Thereafter, it's tap on the left and right of the screen for flipper control. The only gesture you need is to swipe down to release the ball. Once into the game itself, there's a simply gorgeous 3D real-time-rendered table, with the camera following the ball to the same extent that your eyes would on a real table. There's a tenuous back story involving a hardy adventurer and exploring new lands - a good enough set up for a pinball game, I guess.! Add in a generous 'trial' version and you've got a title that every Windows Phone gamer should have installed and (hopefully) bought. The physics are downright perfect, the gameplay always interesting, plus mini-game/mini-tables extend the gameplay even further. I've been a huge pinball fan in real life, which hopefully helps me appreciated the sterling job the developers have done with simulating a pinball table in Dr Pickaxe.
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