Metroid Prime Pinball review - DS

Pinball Wizard? Then you'll want to check out our review of Metroid Prime Pinball, a game that recreates the pinball table on your Nintendo DS. With seven different tables to master, a good multiplayer option and mission-based gameplay, there's plenty to keep you busy at the virtual table. So does it translate well to the DS? Read our Metroid Prime Pinball review for Nintendo DS to find out.

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Metroid Prime Pinball review for Nintendo DS
We didn’t have very high hopes for Metroid Prime Pinball. For one, it’s made by Fuse Games, who were behind possibly the worst Mario game ever, the abomination that was Super Mario Ball. Secondly, it’s been available in the US since October. October 2005, that is. And thirdly, it seems like one of the strangest videogame ideas since Little Britain: The Game. And we all know how that turned out.
Thankfully, Metroid Prime Pinball is far from a disaster. In fact, it’s pretty good. While it can’t be easy to recreate the bells and whistles of a real table (and to be perfectly honest we’re not completely sold on the concept of pinball games on consoles full stop) Fuse have done the DS proud.
It helps that the graphics are marvellous, with some of the best 3D on the console ably representing the Prime universe. The majesty of the snowy Phendrana Drifts and the organic Tallon Overworld have survived the transition to the small screens, and they’re just two of the six tables available. The seventh is the multiplayer table, Magmoor Caverns, which, rather generously, can be shared with up to eight players from one cartridge.

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