A High-Scorer's ultimate dream, Pinball FX2 is addictive as it comes.
It is very likely that you will become a big Pinball fan after playing this game, even if you weren't before. The addiction of learning the tables and getting a higher and higher score is very strong. This addiction is only amplified to the Nth degree when you several friends who own and play the game too since there are robust score comparisons and in game challenges and cues to your friends scores.
Multiplayer options include both online and offline. The online challenges are simply to see who can get to a certain score first with up to four players. Its a nice addition, but nothing too special. For me, multiplayer always shines more when offline and playing with those in the room with you on the same console. Here is where this game is lacking. You only have the offline multiplayer option the 4 new core Pinball FX2 tables. While these are some of the best tables, it still seems necessary to have this mode added into to all the tables. When playing same console multiplayer you can choose between 2 modes. The first seeing who can get to the selected score first and the second being a hot seat take turns style. The score challenger allows two players to each play on their own profiles; however, the hot seat mode plays both players on one profile and only allows use of one controller. It would be a huge improvement if both players could use their own profiles and have the option to use their own controller too. Another feature is at certain dates there may be a specific table selected for tournament mode that will have its own leaderboard for the time frame and count this score separately.
Each table has its own set of achievements and leaderboards. There are also an overall Superscore based on the total of your high scores for each table with bonus for high scores on tables during tournaments. The Superscore is a nice overall way to compare yourself with the other games. Then, there is also the more arbitrary Wizard Score that takes your Superscore plus the total of all your friends Superscores and times it by the number of tables you have played. This score really seems to mean very little since it is dependent on your friends purchasing the game and number a tables you have purchased. But there are some rewards for increasing your Wizard Score, so if you don't have a lot of friends playing it all ready, it may be time to make some new friends to share in this Pinball glory with you.