Great pinball, newer tables not that great – Pinball HD (iPhone) Classic Arcade,Zen,Space Games Review

I really enjoy pinball games, so getting three of them for so cheap is a great deal. Wild West is a little simplistic and the ball just rolls around and doesn't do that much. But The Deep and Jungle Style really step things up with a lot more features on the board and more complex missions and challenges. The instructions are a little lacking, so I started wikis for the The Deep and Jungle Style that might help newcomers. Lately the in-app tables have been going down hill. Da Vinci is amazing and a must once you have gotten tired of the the three built-in tables, but Street Racing doesn't have much to it: no missions, nothing to build towards, and no help whatsoever (the guide is just a screenshot of Fantasy's table). Fantasy is better in that there are a lot of elements, but it feels like a beta. It crashes a lot and it seems to be designed to do more, with mission, a dragon guarding a treasure chest, a castle, but nothing ever happens. The guide is just a screenshot, no actual help other than to tell you the point levels where you get a free ball. They really need to improve these. The demos for Slayer and AC/DC seem okay, but not worth the price of the app all over again for each one. There are some good reviews for Arcade, but based on the demo, it seems kind of lame. Not that much the ball can actually do, though the video games are okay (breakout seems good). Again, doesn't seem worth it. But even $2 isn't bad considering all the quarters you had to dump into real pinball tables at the arcade. The da Vinci table is well worth an in app purchase. It takes these already great games to a new level, literally, as the ball gets hammered into the air, lifted by a magnetic crane, shot out of a cannon, and so forth. There is so much attention to detail that you really probably need an iPad to see everything. It is a beautiful board with a lot of different challenges. There is a wiki for this board as well on wikia. I went ahead and bought the Snow pinball table as an in-app purchase. It is certainly not as strong as da Vinci, but may be worth 99 cents to many. It lacks the complexity of Jungle Style and da Vinci, making it more on par with The Deep. It is easier than the other games to finish. Red Planet is similar, not too incredibly difficuult to accomplish missions and build a spaceship. Halloween has a good look, but not much beyond what you see, so it is similar to Street Racing and Fantasy.
Review by brted on Pinball HD (iPhone) Classic Arcade,Zen,Space Games.