Going for the Strike with AMF Bowling: Pinbusters

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AMF Bowling: Pinbusters is the latest N-Gage game on the block and Ewan takes it for a roll. Despite a sensible control system, decent graphics and (shock, horror) support for multi-player gaming over the N-Gage Arena, Ewan brands it 'repetitive' and 'ultimately unfulfilling'. Still, at least there's a single-player demo, right?

"The big problem with the multiplayer part of Pinbusters is actually finding other people online. Admittedly we review the games very early after their release, but even then there were long periods of time when thee were no other players online. As well as the rooms available, it would be great if we could send challenges to our friends to "get their gear online to get walloped!" Maybe Nokia need to program up some online bots so people aren't waiting all that time. Who knows, perhaps the bots might even win a prize in the online tournaments!"

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