Putting different oil on the lane is supposed to have an impact on your game, but bowling a game full of strikes with the "very difficult" oil on the lane felt just as easy as it did when there was no oil at all, even when using a newly created bowler with no accuracy points at all.
Your bowler of choice will also have some sort of impact on how you play. The game has plenty of fictional bowlers with different appearances and statistics, though you can also create your own with a surprisingly robust player editor that even includes key bowler-attribute sliders such as "back flab" and "belly. The game's different modes are mostly just slightly different takes on the same thing. You can play a practice game, get into a quick match, start a league or tournament for up to eight players, and so on.
There's also a challenge mode that has you trying to knock down increasingly difficult pin placements in one shot. We could probably make some kind of reference to The Big Lebowski here, but this game doesn't deserve it. Visually, the game's a little drab. It's kind of washed out, and the bowlers don't look very good on the lane.
They animate reasonably well, though, and the lanes themselves look OK. The game does have widescreen support, though, which is almost surprising, given the budget nature of the rest of the game's looks.
The audio is generic, consisting mostly of repetitive and unremarkable music that sounds like it came off of a royalty-free CD. The game does shine in one particular spot, though perhaps for the wrong reasons. After each throw, the pins would collapse with exactly the same animation. Next, the computer would toss the ball straight into the gutter, missing the opportunity for a spare. Again, this happened five times in one match. Either each difficulty setting has ready made animation sequences for the computer, or the A.
Either way, it makes playing the game even less interesting. Another annoying factor is the total inability to skip a computer's turn, nor speed it up. If you happen to set up a sixteen person tournament or league, be prepared to spend the majority of your time watching freakish computer players knock over pins that clip all over the place.
After making a strike, gutter ball, double strike, turkey, or spare, players are treated to a flashing multicolored screen for several seconds. Aside from the text indicating what happened, you'll also get to check out a dancing female figure who may or may not have ingested 18 extra strength Tylenol.
Bowling alleys are sparse and generally boring to look at. The alleys have "Xtreme" variations as well, which basically means someone installed neon lights all over the place. The player models are frightening, pin animations clip so frequently you'd think it's a special feature, and animations are hilariously unnatural. Worst of all is the other people in the bowling alley looking on, who have no faces, generally don't move, and seem to be missing vital textures to ensure they look human.
Sound fares no better. Each bowling alley has a techno clip or guitar riff that loops about every thirty seconds. None of them are particularly good, and they don't get any better after you've heard them seven hundred times. Other than the music, the game offers little more for your ears than a crappy pinfall effect. Oh, and a few of the menus make noise when you select something.
Verdict Do not buy this game, even if you're the biggest bowling fan in the world. The game lays out options for using strategy like adjusting spin to oil types, but you won't have to pay attention to any of that. After an hour of play you'll have maxed out your character's Accuracy statistic and you'll never miss.
The ball bounces off of pins, the pins pass through each other like holograms and occasionally even through the ball. It's not enjoyable by any means, mostly because you wind up doing the same throw for nearly every single pin setup, unless you're chasing a really tough spare. With graphics and sound that do nothing to enhance the package, AMF Xtreme Bowling isn't just a gutter ball, it's tossing a shot seven lanes over and crashing it through the floor.
Was this article informative? YES NO. In This Article. Release Date. With six different gameplay modes, nine different enviornments and customizable character creation, the competition is always fresh and fun. Accurate ball, pin and lane physics provide a realistic experience. Compete in a variety of enviornments including the AMF Xtreme Bowling experience for added intensity and fun.
Buy on. Critic Reviews. Score distribution:. Positive: 0 out of 4. Mixed: 0 out of 4. Negative: 4 out of 4. AMF Xtreme Bowling is yet another bowling game that's so easy to master that you really shouldn't waste any of your time on it. All this publication's reviews Read full review. Had more emphasis been on the actual bowling, its physics, and the fun of multiplayer, we would be getting somewhere.
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