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Don't go into this Zone
posted by JMichaud (BETHESDA, MD) Oct 19, 2009
Member since Jan 2008
8 out of 8 gamers (100%) found this review helpful
For those of you looking to play the Atari 2600 versions of Kaboom! and Freeway, then you need look no further than Arcade Zone, a compilation of 17 mini games
This arcade starts off with three zones. The first zone is the classic zone where you play games like basketball shooting, skee ball and making pizzas (wait, that's not a classic game).
There's a sci-fi zone where you shoot targets, build a tower and make corndogs (I'm not kidding).
Then there's a Pirate Zone where you spin a wheel, play hockey and make smoothies (what's with the cooking games?)
At the onset of the game, you select an avatar from a selected group of eight. Hope you like your choice becuase you can't change it at all after you selected him/her.
Each of the three beginning zones has five games, and if you beat four of the five in all three zones, then you unlock a fourth zone, the GameMaster zone, for the last two - air hockey and Kaboom! Beat those two games and you beat the compilation.
But wait, each game gives you tickets you can use to buy some of many, many prizes at any of the four zones
Problem is, most players will be able to get through the game in about an hour, so the only other course of action is to play the games over and over again and rack up enough tickets to buy all the prizes in the arcade.
Which would be fun if these games are mostly exciting, but that is not the case here. The graphics for Kaboom! and Freeway are lacking, and the rest of the game isn't that much better to look at. (The prizes are completly forgettable.) Each game uses a simple button push or flick of the Wiimote over and over again. I found it really boring.
You can play any unlocked game in multi player mode, which adds some spice to the compilation, but almost every other mini game compilation has this feature.
Arcade Zone needs much better graphics, prizes and presentaion. SKIP IT.
This arcade starts off with three zones. The first zone is the classic zone where you play games like basketball shooting, skee ball and making pizzas (wait, that's not a classic game).
There's a sci-fi zone where you shoot targets, build a tower and make corndogs (I'm not kidding).
Then there's a Pirate Zone where you spin a wheel, play hockey and make smoothies (what's with the cooking games?)
At the onset of the game, you select an avatar from a selected group of eight. Hope you like your choice becuase you can't change it at all after you selected him/her.
Each of the three beginning zones has five games, and if you beat four of the five in all three zones, then you unlock a fourth zone, the GameMaster zone, for the last two - air hockey and Kaboom! Beat those two games and you beat the compilation.
But wait, each game gives you tickets you can use to buy some of many, many prizes at any of the four zones
Problem is, most players will be able to get through the game in about an hour, so the only other course of action is to play the games over and over again and rack up enough tickets to buy all the prizes in the arcade.
Which would be fun if these games are mostly exciting, but that is not the case here. The graphics for Kaboom! and Freeway are lacking, and the rest of the game isn't that much better to look at. (The prizes are completly forgettable.) Each game uses a simple button push or flick of the Wiimote over and over again. I found it really boring.
You can play any unlocked game in multi player mode, which adds some spice to the compilation, but almost every other mini game compilation has this feature.
Arcade Zone needs much better graphics, prizes and presentaion. SKIP IT.
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