Crazy Strike Bowling EX Review

<p>At first glance&comma; <em>Crazy Strike Bowling EX<&sol;em> looks around 10 years old&period; The out-of-date character models and textures&comma; the audio design&comma; generic characters&comma; music&comma; and overall style feels like it&&num;8217&semi;s from the PlayStation 2&period; However&comma; this game delivers a fun bowling title that will keep you playing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Let&&num;8217&semi;s get past the obvious problems with the game&period; The graphics are not up to snuff with most PS4 releases&comma; with lacking character models with eyes that look dead&period; However&comma; once you get past its appearance&comma; the game shows a burst of creativity within its stage designs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;108078" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-108078" style&equals;"width&colon; 1920px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-108078" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;03150159&sol;crazy-strike-bowling-ex-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Crazy Strike Bowling EX&lowbar;20160317050915" width&equals;"1920" height&equals;"1080" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-108078" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Crazy Strike Bowling EX<&sol;em>&comma; Corecell Technology&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Each stage has its own moving parts and aesthetics that make each location interesting to play in&period; This aspect made me want to unlock all the possible stages to see which area I was going to play in next&comma; and there&&num;8217&semi;s a lot to get&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While voice acting typically isn&&num;8217&semi;t too important in games such as this&comma; there is plenty of emphasis on the characters&comma; their outfits&comma; and accessories&comma; so the voices should have had more focus in this game&period; It sounds as if the characters have been voiced by the developers&comma; and some of them sound really odd to the point of being a little creepy&period; Instead&comma; Corecell Technology should have found other voices&period; There are plenty of great freelance voice actors online who would have loved to lend their work on this&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But what&&num;8217&semi;s important in a bowling title is the implementation of the game itself&period; Thankfully&comma; I am happy to say that this game is an excellent video game form of bowling&period; The controls are solid&period; There are two meters &&num;8212&semi; one for the speed and one for the direction of the ball&period; At first&comma; it may be frustrating to learn the system but&comma; after getting the timing down&comma; this game becomes a breeze to the point of becoming too easy&period; However&comma; I can&&num;8217&semi;t knock it as it is a well implemented control system&period; There is one problem I found&period; Sometimes it can be difficult to line up shots that require very accurate precision as the pin can look faraway&period; This does get frustrating when you need this for certain challenges in the challenge mode&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;108077" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-108077" style&equals;"width&colon; 1920px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"wp-image-108077 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;03150217&sol;crazy-strike-bowling-ex&period;jpg" width&equals;"1920" height&equals;"1080" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-108077" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Crazy Strike Bowling EX<&sol;em>&comma; Corecell Technology&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><em>Crazy Strike Bowling EX<&sol;em> provides four modes to choose from&colon; Exhibition Mode&comma; Crazy Mode&comma; Challenge Mode&comma; and Battle Mode&period; Exhibition is where I spent most of my time&period; Exhibition is where you unlock all the stages by beating the high score set by the game on each location&period; This is the standard bowling mode that you would expect&comma; and it&&num;8217&semi;s fun to play through because I love to bowl&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Crazy Mode is honestly the worst mode in the game&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s an attempt to <em>Mario Kart<&sol;em>-ize bowling&comma; and it fails&period; It doesn&&num;8217&semi;t have strategy to the game&comma; and without warning steers the ball sideways to the gutter&period; There are also ways of getting barriers to stop your enemies from getting anything in&comma; and special moves that can change the tempo of the game&period; However&comma; I dropped this mode quickly as it provides an unplayable experience with every other ball unpredictably falling to the side of the lane&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Next is Challenge Mode and&comma; like the name implies&comma; you are given challenges to finish&period; From taking down one pin at a time to getting a certain amount of pins in an allotted time&comma; this gives more variety to the content and tests the player&&num;8217&semi;s bowling skills&period; While some challenges are limited to the sometimes inaccurate lining system&comma; this mode gives plenty to do if you love bowling and like to challenge yourself&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Lastly&comma; there is Battle Mode&comma; which I can see being fun between two players&period; At the same time&comma; players try to get a certain amount of pins down before the other in a race&period; Your balls can hit each other&comma; and the competitive urge&comma; even against the computer&comma; to beat the opponent before he or she finishes makes this mode fast and fun to play&period; There&&num;8217&semi;s not much else to Battle Mode&comma; but it&&num;8217&semi;s certainly a great addition&period;  Exhibition and Crazy Modes can be played by 4 players&comma; so if you have a group of friends who want to play a casual game of bowling&comma; this is a great option&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Playing Exhibition Mode and Battle Mode can provide you an opportunity to get experience&period; With this experience earned throughout these two modes&comma; you can gain the opportunity to get new costumes&comma; accessories&comma; and hair styles with the money you receive&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s a nice inclusion&comma; as it provides an incentive to keep playing&comma; even though it has a small selection&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"fCmaV1MhR8M" title&equals;"Crazy Strike Bowling EX &lbrack;PS4&rsqb; Trailer"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;fCmaV1MhR8M"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;fCmaV1MhR8M&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Crazy Strike Bowling EX &lbrack;PS4&rsqb; Trailer"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Crazy Strike Bowling EX<&sol;em> provides a fun bowling title on the PS4 and&comma; as it is the only game of its kind on the console&comma; I would recommend it if you like the sport&period; If you can get the past the poor presentation&comma; graphics&comma; and voice acting&comma; you should give this a try if you want to play a game like this&period; Also&comma; if you want to use your PlayStation Move controllers again&comma; this is one of the few games on the PS4 that lets you use them&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<hr &sol;>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong><em>A PS4 code of Crazy Strike Bowling EX was provided by Corecell Technology for review purposes<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;