
This is a title for everyone’s game library, as Zen Pinball combines fast paced action and realistic graphics with the thrills of traditional pinball.” Zsolt Kigyossy, managing director for ZEN Studios, said "Our team has put a lot of hours and hard work into developing this title and the results look amazing!" Release In April 2009, Zsolt Kigyossy, managing director for Zen Studios, announced the game officially saying that "The PlayStation Network has a wide variety of great game offerings but it’s lacking a classic arcade pinball game like Zen Pinball. In February 2009, a press release noted Zen Pinball as being available on the PlayStation Network sometime in the future. The first new downloadable table, a Street Fighter II Tribute, was released August 20th, 2009.

The game included four different tables at launch ( V12, Tesla, Shaman, and El Dorado), with more tables available as downloadable content. If you choose to indulge yourself in these options, though, you won't be able to earn trophies during that round." Tables (At least that was this writer's experience.) Injecting even more replay value into the game are Awards, which are medals unlocked when extremely specific goals to each table are complete, like "Repel the attack of the robber knights against Camelot" on the Excalibur table.Zen Studios claims that "in addition to the traditional task of getting the top score, specific missions will also be delegated to the player." Moreover, the game “will have local and online multiplayer, a crazy amount of leaderboard data and ‘worldwide tournament competitions.’” Also, "Zen Studios is adding some fun extras like slow motion and the ability to save your progress during a game. Added to the single player portion of Zen Pinball 3D are several types of leaderboards, which will instantly remind you of how terrible you are at pinball. The game also sports local multiplayer, called Hot Seat, in which up to four players pass the game to one another when they lose a ball. And that's all the more motivation to do well in Zen Pinball 3D's four tables, and much more so than "How many points did I get?" The game is so gripping at times that, when you finally lose, it's actually a jarring yank out of the experience. The sooner you forget about the points and demands flashing at you from the 3DS's bottom screen, the sooner you'll lose yourself in the game's physics and literal depth. With that, this writer simply decided to go with the flow, and it's honestly the best way to enjoy this game.


After reading what needed to be done in each level to maximize points, it was admittedly impossible to care.
