Guns and Roses has quite a bit going for it, but it never pulls it together like it should.
The Pros: Slash added his hand into the design and production of this game. That guy rules! This game steals so many good ideas from so many other games and even makes a few new angles on them. The snake pit is a prime example. Funhouse double plungers with the GnR theme really show you that DE went all out with this deck. GnR ramps, the jackpot skillshot from the left plunger. The list keeps going on. TAF mags are another great addition, hey... steal from the best... right?
The Cons: Axl Rose is a epitomizes the word felchmonkey. That zero ruins the table for me on soooo many levels. Performance wise, unless EVERYTHING on this game is tip-top, the game falters of major shots or even just getting the ball to the PF. The music is a good cue for some of the modes... but then you hear it again, and again, and again... Why bother for a jackpot when your pops score 2-3 million each. Just shoot the ball up the orbits to the pops during multiball, and then do it again and again and again and again... One of the most complex designs from DE becomes a 1 shot game (backhand to add band member) to get your multiball prepped.
The Takeaway: The potential for this game was incredible. Tales from the Crypt is a billion times better. Tommy, even though it's multiball heavy with scoring, is a far superior player compared to this table. Now, for GnR fans...It'll go great in the corner of the double wide. Otherwise... it's just very meh. Personally, I would have to deface Axl on the BG if this was in my collection. Why do you ask...? because he's a complete f'n waste of oxygen. I did say Axl was a felchmonkey didn't I?
Update:
After getting a chance to play this deck properly tuned, I have to say that this game plays better the more you get to know it. I really like the difficulty of the upper loop shot and that you can double your mode's score when the ball feeds out of it. Getting the super jack is a real challenge during multiball and it makes the whole left side of the PF worth shooting for. Modes are still unbalanced and I still believe that the super pops/multiball strategy is the way to go, but heck if you can gits Duff for 100 mil and double it off the upper loop, why not? Is it a better game than I originally thought, yes. It's is the best game DE has ever made, no. That and there are many other, much better rock and roll pinball games out there to be played.
Update #2:
Playing this game more with other players who really know it, has opened up the backhand to the mode saucer shot option to me. I still usually just super-pop multiball my way into millions (it's safer and the super jack is a hoot), but this game is a bit better in gameplay than what I credited it for, for a long time. Not by much, but a bit better. Score adjusted ever so slightly to the positive. I'm off to play some AC/DC Premium now.
Update#3:
I REALLY like the multiball rules/progression. Ramps, multiball start vuk, ramps inner loop for a sooper jack. The whole time, the lower PF magnets are pulsing. Very well done. If the rest of this game's rules were as good as that... this game would be a keeper.
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