I REALLY hope they incude a tutorial walkthrough on all of the tables like they had in Pinball Hall of Fame....but for a download game...I have my doubts.

It has been released on Xbox LIVE. My first impressions are pretty underwhelming.

The tables seem fine (looks, psychics, sound, play). The main drawback on the gameplay side of things is limited camera selections and only 1 (pretty bad) camera angle while shooting the ball.

The main downer for me is the games interface. Flat, clunky and bound to just get worse as more tables are released. There are 4 tables now and you have to scroll through them with only 1 table being displayed on screen at a time. add 20+ tables to that and browsing the tables might become a pain. It also looks to have only the most basic of leaderboards. Only the most basic of options and no going into the game settings or audits. Pinball FX2 allows you to change gameplay setting, check audits and even set the outlanes. This game has none of that. No attract flyby and no free control camera as another poster was hoping for.

I was really hoping they had learned a thing or two from Pinball FX2 since they had released the Williams Hall of Fame Collection, but that doesn't look to be the case. Pinball FX2 pretty much makes this game look like amature night at the game designing house. The only thing The Pinball Arcade has going for it are better tutorials for each table and real tables. Their Williams Hall of Fame Collection is also better than The Pinball Arcade in some ways (slicker interface, more camera choices and spoken tutorials).

I'm sure I will buy most tables released for it and as I said, it plays fine. It's just a dissapointment that they have been hyping this up and it looks like a scailed down Williams Hall of Fame Collection, with new tables from different manufactures. I really believe that most of the develops at this studio have to know that the have been outclassed by Zen Studios.

Maybe they can patch a whole new interface, cameras and options in the game....but I really doubt that will happen. I will have to settle for what it is and give up on what it could have been.