All it takes is a vague reference to a steel ball and flippers and my wrists begin to twitch. Before long, I develop a fever that can only be cured with a roll of quarters and a trip to the arcade. Pinball is my passion, pure and simple. When there were rumblings that a new game was coming, featuring both frantic multiplayer combat and third-person action of the bumper-banging variety, my interest was piqued damn near instantly. The aptly named Kabounce recently hopped its way onto the PS4, but does it have enough momentum to make pinheads flip out without tilting"
Mixing and Matching
If you look at the gaming landscape, it?s hard to shake the feeling that you?re staring into a funhouse mirror. Everything is some weird, misshapen form of what the audience would expect. In many cases, this warping is accomplished by smashing together a couple of disparate genres, in hopes of accidentally landing upon the next chocolate and peanut butter combo. Kabounce, for example, looks like it?s equal parts Tron and Marble Blast Ultra. Sprinkling in projectile power-ups and airborne strikes from above, everything melds together to produce this extremely odd bowl of gaming gumbo. And this probably goes without saying, but it tends to be a bit of an acquired taste. At its core, Kabounce is a multiplayer cacophony of combos, flippers, and chaos. Players control a single ball on the map, with the goal of running up the highest score totals for their team. Points are generated through a ...