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Hit the lanes with chutzpah in this budget-friendly bowling game from Crave. Developed by Lab Rats Games, creator of the PC's Fast Lanes Bowling (released the previous year), Strike Force offers a seemingly familiar selection of eight caricatured characters, both realistic and wacky lane settings, and interesting alterations of the standard rules. Players can try bowling on a pirate ship, in ancient Egypt, or even on the moon. Along with the standard rules and scoring options, game types such as Skins, Tournament Play, and Golf Mode add variety. While Strike Force Bowling's attitude may be over the top, the action is authentic, running on a Lab Rats physics engine designed to accurately represent ball and pin collisions.
In the grand scheme of things, today's bowling games aren't that much different from the games we saw hitting arcades and arcane home consoles 20 years ago. While some bowling games tend to take advantage of technology and the advancement made in virtual physics over the years, others just let you hurl a ball down a lane at some pins. Crave's budget-priced PS2 and Xbox offering, Strike Force Bowling, is actually a renamed and slightly updated version of a recent PC bowling game, Fast Lines Bowling. Regardless of what you call it, the game attempts to combine zany locales with tried-and-true bowling mechanics, but the game lacks substance and ultimately won't please bowling fans, be they hardcore or casual.
This is a good game. It gives you a variety of scenes to bowl in and different pin setups. Not your everyday bowling alley. The controls are easy to ofigure out. Timing the bars is a bit difficult. The pin setup variations are the most enjlyable and challenging. I bought the game as an addition to my collection and variety in games that my wife and I can play together.