Thursday, August 11, 2011

Amazon's Free App of the Day - Pinball Ride

written by: Nick Kosmides


Don't know that this gives anyone enough time to jump on a game tonight, but if it does Pinball Ride is a good one to jump to.

Though its just one pinball table and not a collection like most pinball games, even on Android in a game called Pinball Deluxe.  In Pinball Ride's Story Mode you play as a character who does a lot of driving and picking up women.  You can collect contacts by hitting bumps, engage in races with anonymous drivers or gangs.  Ram them off the road by hitting all the lit ramps.  Collect a ton of achievements, but that is where the fun ends.

To ding this game is not fair, because it is a good game.  Very nice graphics, solid controls - a few times the touch controls didn't work and it cost me a ball - and a ripping soundtrack that I'm sure would get old if played too long.  If you're going to bring attention to achievements and put this much time into them, it doesn't seem wise to me to not include Open Feint.  They provide developers with the codes necessary to tap into their well established online network of users, not to mention the achievements that have attracted so many mobile users to all sorts of crap games.  Its XBOX Live or PSN for Android/iOS devices!  Win-win if you ask me.

Anyways, go grab the game before midnight, or don't.  Its now up to you.

Pinball Ride - $0.99 FREE