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Avengers: Infinity Quest (Premium) Pinside Rating
This game received 364 approved Pinsider ratings and currently rates 8.518 /10
Avengers: Infinity Quest (Premium)
Top 100 ranking
This game ranks 2nd in the game group "Avengers: Infinity Quest". The group itself ranks #26 in the Pinside Pinball Top 100.
Score breakdown
Score breakdown in the 4 main categories:
Game Design: 8.816
Artwork: 8.497
Sounds/Music: 7.765
Other Aspects: 8.694
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This title is part of group: "Avengers: Infinity Quest"
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7.684/10
34 days ago
Batavia, IL
AIQ is a very hard game (coming from a normal, not a rock star player). I enjoyed the scope of the game and what you had to try and accomplish, but I started to lose interest when it just became so difficult to advance and get any further in the game. I think the most gems I ever earned was 2. Toys and shots were cool and I enjoyed the spinner with the secret pop up. Cool game, but if you are a beginner, I would think twice.
8.947/10
77 days ago
Calgary, AB
As a non-marvel fan, I pocked up AIQ premium in a trade with the full intent to just sell it. However after playing 50+ games on it now I am totally hooked! What a refreshing layout and the combos on this thing are INSANE. With multiball it looks like a theme park as balls rock around 3+ wire ramps in all directions. Also I have the custom movie code so I love the music and clips. Maybe I wouldn’t like the animations as much? I’m not sure. On location I agree the code is probably a bit too deep but for home it is exactly what I NEED. I love the unique modes like the limited flips on Soul Gem and the antigravity and helicopter ramps are so satisfying when you slam them! Overall so surprised to love this game as much as I do. I put it just below JP and above my GZ. I like it better than GZ because I don’t need 1+ hours to have a satisfying game.
8.860/10
77 days ago
Amazing machine, so many unique shots and I love that they pushed the envelope a little and tried new things. Once you get dialed in the game really opens up and there are so many satisfying shots.
Artwork is amazing and this is where it really shines. The game is bright and beautiful. Love the big ramp in the middle back and you can hit it so many different ways. So many things to shoot at you want to play it again and again. I didn't find it to have hungry outlanes like others.
I alternated between this and TMNT Premium which were sitting right next to each other. If I had to choose one to play, it would be TMNT but Avengers is so close that I would be hard pressed choosing one to buy for my home. Great pin!
Artwork is amazing and this is where it really shines. The game is bright and beautiful. Love the big ramp in the middle back and you can hit it so many different ways. So many things to shoot at you want to play it again and again. I didn't find it to have hungry outlanes like others.
I alternated between this and TMNT Premium which were sitting right next to each other. If I had to choose one to play, it would be TMNT but Avengers is so close that I would be hard pressed choosing one to buy for my home. Great pin!
10.000/10
87 days ago
Loved the game since the first time I played it on location. Shoots fantastic and is not nearly as complicated as people make it sound. Code is deep enough to keep things from getting repetitive. Obtaining each gemnrequires different tasks and it even has a flips challenge mode once you unlock all of the avengers and play the soul gem mode. Ended up puchasing one and would have rated it in the 9's until I installed the movie code. Movie code makes iron man and Thor multiball the adreneline rush moment that the original code lacks.
Rotterdam
9.660/10
5 months ago
Really amazing pinball the rules are bit convoluted but the shots and layout and gameplay is incredible some of the best shots in pinball history imo. Really an amazing pinball. Elwins Best Shots and Layouts hes ever done the ramps and loops etc are insane it's like a roller coaster underglass.
7.436/10
6 months ago
In my opinion this is the least desirable pin from Keith Elwin. It has a lot of great shots but they are tight and I could never get the auto plunger dialed in. Collecting a gem is a challenge... keeping it from Thanos is a nightmare and if you fail to do so you will be discouraged and angry! Freaking Thanos! This is definitely a shooters pin and you may also need to be a mathematician to fully understand the code. Oh and the trough is clunky.. I'd much rather shoot the cellar trough on my Whirlwind than this any day. Anyway, I only kept this pin for about two months. For me it just wasn't that much fun but to each their own.
7.776/10
7 months ago
Amazing shot layout and flow, but it's absolutely brutal if the ball hits the slings or heads towards the outlanes. I'm not a fan of how you can earn a gem and then have to accurately place it on a shot when there's no safe return to the flippers from the upper flipper lock. More often than not, it ends up on the grid due to ball caroms. Also, Thanos Attacks -- where he can take away the gem power ups you've worked so hard to earn -- is just cruel to the intermediate players. If you're a buddy of Elwin and a precision shooter in the top 0.5%, then it's probably a whole lot of fun.. but for those that are a rung or two under that, it's just frustrating. I did manage to beat Thanos once and the last 20 minutes was a long wood-chopping slog just to light and play out the last couple mini-wiz modes before the final battle.
9.380/10
7 months ago
Trowbridge
Strong theme, fun game, great shots. Easy to know rules (collect stones by starting modes) hard to do! But a little knowledge on portal locks and careful use of Thor multiball to help modes along - can lead to big points. I’m certainly suffering super hero fatigue at the cinema, but this is the biggest brand superhero film, and the pin does it justice.
9.236/10
8 months ago
Amazing game, one of the best layouts, top notch code, extremely deep.
So after playing the pro 100+ times and the LE a handful, I had to own one of these despite never seeing the movie or having any interest in comic books or movies based on them. It’s that good.
So after playing the pro 100+ times and the LE a handful, I had to own one of these despite never seeing the movie or having any interest in comic books or movies based on them. It’s that good.
9.336/10
8 months ago
Budapest
It is a master design for sure, but for me something is missing, it feels a bit "cold". A great game though!
UPDATE: this game is fantastic. shame that didnt get better music and animations to give it more soul, but this machine rocks! real masterpiece, just need to invest a lot of time to really understand the rules, and practice combos, but after.. amazing!
The key are the quests of course and you can prepare multiballs for that (2 tower locks done, Thor made ready) to start easy after the quest started. This is very important to give your quests more chance to be done. Never start a quest without a multiball prepared or at least one portal lock! Dont start any multiball on its own, they are for supporting the quests in this game! Based on which stage are you in the game you can decide to prepare the next quest more or just start it and move forward.
First I didnt really like the game, but now I am amazed how epic it is!
I installed PoMC soundmod and now the game has what was missing before - the mood! It increase the fun factor very much for me :)
UPDATE: this game is fantastic. shame that didnt get better music and animations to give it more soul, but this machine rocks! real masterpiece, just need to invest a lot of time to really understand the rules, and practice combos, but after.. amazing!
The key are the quests of course and you can prepare multiballs for that (2 tower locks done, Thor made ready) to start easy after the quest started. This is very important to give your quests more chance to be done. Never start a quest without a multiball prepared or at least one portal lock! Dont start any multiball on its own, they are for supporting the quests in this game! Based on which stage are you in the game you can decide to prepare the next quest more or just start it and move forward.
First I didnt really like the game, but now I am amazed how epic it is!
I installed PoMC soundmod and now the game has what was missing before - the mood! It increase the fun factor very much for me :)
7.672/10
9 months ago
Sadly this game has some poor ramp designs and gimmicks i just dont care for. The right loop ramp is very difficult to hit right and the Avengers tower failed to catch the ball on many of my plays.... The theme is fantastic but i felt more could have been done to make the game fun. Doctor strange being relegated to a lift and spin element was just criminal. Maybe im too inexperienced to enjoy it but it felt like a lot of rails in the way of the beautiful playfield.
9.760/10
11 months ago
This game has it all! Ramps galore, flow for days and combos that never get old.
Many say the rules are hard to understand but at the surface it's pretty easy, hit the shots and win the gems. After that, the strategy can get complicated but that's what makes it fun, lots of new and different ways to level up the superheros, assign the gems and rack up a high score.
The number of flip feature is cool and fun. Adds a level of excitement and good stress to make shot to gain flips instead of loosing them.
Many say the rules are hard to understand but at the surface it's pretty easy, hit the shots and win the gems. After that, the strategy can get complicated but that's what makes it fun, lots of new and different ways to level up the superheros, assign the gems and rack up a high score.
The number of flip feature is cool and fun. Adds a level of excitement and good stress to make shot to gain flips instead of loosing them.
7.807/10
1 year ago
I agree with the overall consensus on this game in that the shots and layout are top-notch but the rules are too complicated when you try to progress through the game.
The shots on this game are the most fun of any game I've ever played, particularly the ramps of which there are many, and the building that locks balls is pretty good too. There's something fun to shoot at everywhere on the playfield.
When it comes to the rules, well, you try to obtain gems and defeat villains. It's not always clear how you do this. I've managed to obtain a gem in many games, but other than try to obtain other ones I don't know really what I'm supposed to be doing or what happens after I get them all (not that it's ever been a problem). I take the beginner's approach: I shoot stuff and if I keep the ball alive long enough eventually I accomplish something.
I don't own any pinball machines. I imagine that despite its fun layout and great shots it might get tiresome not being able to understand the rules of the game or how to progress through it if I owned it, but I don't, so I enjoy it for being the best shooter I've come across.
The shots on this game are the most fun of any game I've ever played, particularly the ramps of which there are many, and the building that locks balls is pretty good too. There's something fun to shoot at everywhere on the playfield.
When it comes to the rules, well, you try to obtain gems and defeat villains. It's not always clear how you do this. I've managed to obtain a gem in many games, but other than try to obtain other ones I don't know really what I'm supposed to be doing or what happens after I get them all (not that it's ever been a problem). I take the beginner's approach: I shoot stuff and if I keep the ball alive long enough eventually I accomplish something.
I don't own any pinball machines. I imagine that despite its fun layout and great shots it might get tiresome not being able to understand the rules of the game or how to progress through it if I owned it, but I don't, so I enjoy it for being the best shooter I've come across.
9.120/10
1 year ago
I bought an AIQ premium because when I went to arcades, I kept playing this game. It is so much fun! I'm a ramp guy and this game, quite simply, has the best ramps I've ever played. Keith Elwin was a champion player before Stern hired him to design games. AIQ is probably the best shooting game he's made. It's all about the shots and those ramps!
It gets a little repetitive in terms of the activators. But it is deep. Once you know how to squeeze out its multiballs and extraballs, you can have 45-60 minute games. It's the kind of game that if you can master it, you can master any game.
It's also challenging. I know some very good pinballers but none of them have gotten more than three of the five gemstones in any one game. So it is challenging, and predictable, but it is really fun. The biggest complaint I hear about AIQ is that the animations and sounds are lackluster. That is a fair criticism. But I'm using a modded SD with movie clips and audio from the movies. It is a huge improvement over the Stern-issued video. Even with AIQ ranked in the top 20, I think it would be ranked top 10 if everyone was using the video SD mod. It totally changes the feel of the game and makes it much more enjoyable.
It gets a little repetitive in terms of the activators. But it is deep. Once you know how to squeeze out its multiballs and extraballs, you can have 45-60 minute games. It's the kind of game that if you can master it, you can master any game.
It's also challenging. I know some very good pinballers but none of them have gotten more than three of the five gemstones in any one game. So it is challenging, and predictable, but it is really fun. The biggest complaint I hear about AIQ is that the animations and sounds are lackluster. That is a fair criticism. But I'm using a modded SD with movie clips and audio from the movies. It is a huge improvement over the Stern-issued video. Even with AIQ ranked in the top 20, I think it would be ranked top 10 if everyone was using the video SD mod. It totally changes the feel of the game and makes it much more enjoyable.
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