<>@1 o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0 *4@3 SLAM TILT - REVIEW *3]5@4 by Jacka / PTK *1]1@1 0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o @6 O°O°O°O°O°O°O°O°O°O°O°O°O°O°O°O°O°O°O° *3@5 Developed by:@1 Liquid Dezign @5 Published by:@1 21st Century Entertainment @5 System Requirements:@1 A1200 or A4000 (AGA basically) *1@6 O°O°O°O°O°O°O°O°O°O°O°O°O°O°O°O°O°O°O° @1 Amiga pinball games have been very popular in the past and no doubt will remain so if the standards keep getting better. As a pinball punter when I first read of Slam Tilt I was a bit excited, after playing Pinball Dreams, Pinball Fantasies and Pinball Illusions to death I couldn't wait to get my hands on this. At a first glance you would think it's Pinball Illusions all over again. Spend about 1 hour playing it and it surpasses it. The ball movement is very realistic but the ball itself doesn't have the fancy shine of Pinball Illusions. The flippers are very responsive and always flip when you press the button. There are 4 tables, being Mean Machines, Pirates, Ace of Space and Night of the Demon. *2@5 Mean Machines is themed around racing cars, monster trucks and stock car racing... that sort of thing! The *2music is a constant thumping rock type tune and sounds great. The table is set up well with various tunnels and ball traps to go through. Games include Drag Racing (watch out, your keyboard will never forgive you!) where you have to bray the shit out of the flippers in order to get faster times for more points. Off-Road Race (3 ball multi-ball) jackpots start at about 10 million so huge scores can be obtained. Formula 1 race, has to be seen to be believed. In the middle of the pinball game a racing game pops up. The display panel at the top of the screen becomes a racing track, you use the flippers to steer the car and there are no brakes. 20 million is awarded for each completed lap and the xtra ball is lit for doing all six. An energy bar is up the side so watch how many times you crash. Speed, there are 4 ways of getting Speed letters. 2 are to go around the same tunnels 3 times to get 1 letter. Start a mode and get one, or get the skillshot at the beginning. (Xtra balls and prizes can also be won). Once you have lit Speed up, try to complete all laps so 3rd prize can also be won. Now enter the mode start trap to get the side lane saver and Speed at the same time. Next pinball heaven. 4 ball multi-ball! The screen will flip to high res and ball after ball will fire in to play. Absolutely humongous scores will amass. ]5@6 Total table rating - 92% Score to beat - 5,531,796,300 ]1 @5 Pirates is proberly the worst table of all 4 but it's still quite good. I haven't played this table as much as the rest but here goes. The theme is along the lines, hook and sailing *2pirates in general. With games ranging from, Walking the Plank to Crocodile multi-balls to Knife Throwing. The music is jolly enough but grinds on you after a while. The sampled speech is very convincing. Sounds just like what you'd expect a pirate to sound like (i.e. very deep voice). But the table overall is poor compared to the other three. ]5@6 Total table rating - 83% Score to beat - 489,763,380 ]1 @5 Ace of Space is without doubt the best pinball table on any Amiga game. The theme as you may have guessed (thick as shit if you haven't!) is space. The missions are Blam (my favourite as you get to blow a PeeCee away amongst other things), Hack the Net, Space Race and Asteroid Belt. All of which are easy to access. The modes are Alien Attack (3 ball multi-ball.), Lightsabre (Which is a Star Wars type fight with light sabres.), Death Planet, (Which, strangely enough, is a rip-off of the Deathstar bit from Star Wars. You have to fly through numerous corridors, with walls all the way through, with a small hole which if you don't make it will result in blowing up. Get to the end and it blows up.), Speeder Bikes and Walker War. Now Walker War is brilliant . 2 ball multi-ball in which the ball trap must be shot when a cross hair appears at the top of the screen in which you must press Return at the right time to blow the Walker's head clean off his shoulders, while trying to keep the other ball in play as all of this is going on. Finally, do all of the games and you are presented with the Big Blam, a 4 ball multi-ball in which the aim is the destroy the solar system. ]5@6 Total table rating - 98% Score to beat - 2,367,599,370 ]1 @5 Night of the Demon is all about horror. Games include Bat Butcher (Where you must get up the right tube at the right time in order to blow away the bats.), Mega Mutant, Treasure Hunt and a few others. Witch Craft is spooky, once the game is entered the ball then has a mind of its own. It's as if there's one huge magnet all around the table as it (the ball) is pulled upwards when it was coming down and generally going berserk as it pleases. The sound effects and music are gripping. Excellent screams and werewolf noises keep the atmosphere at peak all of the time during play. Even more so when played in the dark at night. ]5@6 Total table rating - 95% Score to beat - 567,932,900 ]1 @1 After everything is said and done, Slam Tilt is the new benchmark in Amiga pinball games. I just hope this provokes Digital Illusions to come up with another pinball game. Although not the greatest, the Extreme Sports table off Pinball Illusions is still my best table of all time. Final word time, all tables have 2, 3 and 4 multi-ball games, plenty of sub games and one game at the score panel where no ball is involved in that game. Presentation is excellent throughout and the game is a total joy to play. Liquid Dezign need the computer world's oscar for this one. *4@3]5 OVERALL GAME RATING - 97%