Good choice. I was about to add to the chorus of AV haters.

To me, AV is a worse Monster Bash. It shoots badly, the rules are unbalanced for score competitions (shoot Hawkeye all day), and the modes are all tedious as all get out (shoot the same shot 7-10 times, woo!).

Mostly, though, it's just really badly balanced scoring-wise, and that drives me nuts.

IM, though, that thing is sweet. Brutal, but you can help that some with setup if it's too hard for your family. There's real decisions to be made, objectives to go for that are hard to achieve, and then some great wizard and mini-wizard modes...

The layout, whatever. There's some shots.

But the modes in AV are literally the least fun modes I can think of. You shoot a shot four times--to activate a mode wherein you shoot the same shot some more times.

After you've done that, you can shoot the shot some more to get multiball. During which you have the option of shooting the same thing, or you can shoot something else.

I think in several months of league play I never saw anyone get that far into the game--except for on Hawkeye. Because, y'know, shooting hawkeye over, and over, and over, and over, and over again is the optimal strategy for the game in competition. Ugh.

I very much agree with this--I believe at Expo last year Trent set up his AV in the tournament bank with Iron Man and Cap on Extra Easy, BW on Easy, Hulk on normal, and the Hawkeye switch removed, along with the right inlane switch to prevent people from looping the Hawkeye shot to get Loki multiball.

It seemed to play pretty well, though it was disappointing that the wizard modes were unattainable. Bit unfortunate that was "optimal", though.

However, I've never seen one routed like that--on location the game is just sadtimes.