Разработчик: Shine Research
Описание
One of the most addictive pinball game ever seen !
Countless features, including :
- Non-stop arcade action
- Incredibly realistic physics
- 8 different table game mini-modes
- 6 original tables
- ...and a special one for retro-arcade addicts !
Each table game mini-mode features a special gameplay :
- Shoot them up
- Multiball
- Balls teleportation
- Magnetic fields
- Black out
- Ramps hide and seek
Quantic Pinball is the perfect fusion between a pinball game and arcade classic gameplays...
Complete all the tables and test your skill with the Special table and its invaders' infinite waves!
Поддерживаемые языки: english, french, italian, german, spanish - spain
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7 +
- Processor: 1 GHz
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: Direct9 compliant
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 500 MB available space
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Note: This review will seem very similar to my review for Babylon 2055 pinball. This is because the "developer" of both games just copy and pasted the entire game. Asset flipping begins at home, I guess.
Quantic Pinball is an extraordinarily mediocre pinball simulator game... I won't go into explaining what pinball is, but it's important to know there's quite a few pinball games on Steam, and while I don't agree with their predatory pricing models, a few of them give you completely free tables to play on and are backed by a really solid pinball simulator engine.
This one is the opposite.
You can unlock a handful of tables, but there's no point... this is worse than the 3D spaceman pinball you get with Windows XP. It's only in 2D, there's no table bumping feature (I guess you don't have to worry about Tilt???)... it's just a simplistic mess that I am surprised isn't a Flash game. And a slew of technical shortcomings.
From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision.
The game features simple, fairly basic 2D visuals, and while some effort went into them, and they don't look bad exactly, they don't look great, either. In the 3D era of gaming, that kicked off in the mid 1990's with dedicated 3D GPUs like the S3 Virge and ATI Rage, phoning in the graphics like this isn't going to win any awards or appeal to enthusiast PC gamers.
It's apparent that little to no testing for the game was done, at least on modern gaming PCs. In fullscreen, the game doesn't display properly, with the game area drawn only up in the top left corner of the screen. This is caused by the developer not bothering to ensure the game works on resolutions over 1080p, with very high resolution monitors that use DPI scaling for the OS UI. Because the game area is not drawn correctly, it doesn't map to the mouse pointer properly, so the game itself simply cannot be played. Gamers shouldn't be forced to accept defective products just because developers don't bother with basic testing on PC.
Bewilderingly, the game doesn't include proper audio controls, so you can't turn off the annoying sound/background music, you'll need to alt+tab out and stop it using the Windows sound mixer. This is obviously not okay and it's unclear why the developers chose not to include this basic feature.
The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts.
The very poor quality of this game puts it squarely on-par with ancient 1990's Flash/Java games, and given it's 2024 (and this was released not so far back in 2017), gamers and the industry expect and deserve better than this kind of low effort shovelware.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
You don't have to take my word about how bad the game is, we can measure the interest in a game by how much people bothered to play it. Quantic Pinball has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the game absolutely failed to capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is "Alpha", for scoring well on the first table, trivial to achieve, but less than 6 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the game. That's a tiny, tiny proportion of gamers who even bothered with this. Ouch.
Reviewing SteamDB to check how popular this game was with players reveals a surprise... there's a modest spike in player counts for the game. But this only happened once, and isn't consistent with the achievement stats, that show less than 6 percent of players bothered playing the game for any reasonable amount of time. How is it possible for this game to have so many concurrent players who didn't bother engaging with this game? Trading cards. People will use card idling software to collect the cards and sell them, but this won't trigger any achievements in-game.
That tells us people only really bought this game for trading cards, and that's a damning indictment of the woeful quality. A closer look at the numbers shows the game just has a couple of players every week running up the game and idling it for cards, then deleting it. We must ask how it benefits gamers for there to be so many games like this, with little merit as a serious game, that only generate sales from people idling and selling the trading cards.
So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 110,000+ games on Steam?
Quantic Pinball is relatively cheap at $4 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. This is also competing with over 14,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.
Overall a very fun game, but has one critical flaw...
My primary concern is a complete lack of an options menu. I would like to be able to adjust sound levels, brightness, and a primary control scheme. Having to use *exclusively* the left and right arrow keys means I get wrist cramps because my wrists are so close together. I know some other pinball games that utilize the z and ? keys, or left and right Ctrl keys, but this is the first time I've had to use only the arrow keys, and I can't say that I'm a big fan of it.
One small issue I have is that there's not a lot of variety to make the game feel dynamic. There's very little change in color, and no change in color scheme between stages, I do like the cyber feel that the game has, but I do wish that there was more reactivity from the different stages beyond the different "missions"; speaking of, I do feel that it's a bit odd to have the game not require any of them to be completed to advance to the next stages, just to have the different lanes be used a certain number of times. I think the missions are fun and interesting, and wish that they played a more prominent role in advancing to future stages. Additionally, I feel that it's a bit of a missed opportunity to have the missions in each stage be basically identical, instead of having different themes based on the unique features of the different stages. I think having missions be unique to each stage would allow each one to feel like they each had their own identity, instead of just feeling all samey.
All that being said, I do like the game, and will absolutely come back to play more of it if the control scheme issues are fixed!
Quantic Pinball definitely doesn't live up to the main selling points on the store page:
"One of the most addictive pinball game ever seen" [sic]
It's one of the worst pinball games I've played. When launching you're presented with fullscreen mode or window. Fullscreen uses a strange resolution on both of my computers. There are no resolution options! Window opens the game in a tiny window that cannot be resized.
Several players in the forum talk about not even being able to launch the game due to DX9 errors or dpi-scaling issues.
Gameplay feels like a cheap mobile phone title, it didn't feel anything like "non-stop arcade action" and ball movement didn't match the touted "incredibly realistic physics".
I'm refunding this title.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Shine Research |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 02.02.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 83% положительных (12) |