Brunswick Circuit Pro Bowling

by PS1

Product Features

• PS1

Product Details

• ASIN: B00002STQQ
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,450 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

GameSpot Review

Bowling. A sport that depends more on talent and raw wrist power than actual physical conditioning. A sport that can be so laid back that there's even a section of it that involves buying beer. While THQ can't bring you a six-pack should you throw a strike on the seventh frame, it does manage to deliver an extremely realistic bowling title, complete with some of the best big-money bowlers in the world today.

To start, you can create your own bowler or simply choose one of the 13 Brunswick Pro Staff bowlers in the game. Each bowler has a little video clip (similar to THQ's wrestling game, WCW Nitro) that proclaims how much of a badass he is. These clips provide the most hilarious gaming moments in recent memory. Each video is chock-full of bad reads, funny-looking bowler types, and poorly conveyed braggadocio.

There are a few different gameplay modes to choose from. Exhibition games get you going quickly, with no strings attached. Just pick a bowler and get on with it. Other modes include the skins game, the tournament, career mode, and cosmic bowling, which turns the lanes into a discotheque. The lane is realistically oiled, which forces you to move around the lane and vary your rolls as conditions change, but this doesn't really make the game terribly hard. Expect to bowl around 150 within your first two games.

The graphics are much more than you'd expect from a bowling game. There are tons of different camera angles, which are automatically selected on each roll of the ball. The players look like their real-life counterparts and are fairly well animated. The music in Brunswick is surprisingly good. The music changes on each frame. The sound effects are also very well done.

All in all, Brunswick Circuit Pro Bowling is a pretty good game. It isn't the type of game you'll play every day, unless you're some kind of bowling nut. Those of you still clinging to Ten Pin Alley can move up to the big leagues with this one. Even if you aren't a bowling fan, and couldn't care less about this game, you really should see the video clips at least once. They're incredibly funny. --Jeff Gerstmann
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Manufacturer Description

The most realistic bowling simulation available Brunswick Circuit Pro Bowling features the best known license in the sport including all of its personalities tournaments state-of-the-art equipment and family fun. Choose from among 13 of your favorite Brunswick Pro Staff bowlers and hit the lanes in a true 3D simulation utilizing the most advanced physics engines to date for unsurpassed realism in and pin action. Based on actual Brunswick tournaments Brunswick Circuit Pro Bowling boasts authentic tournament rules equipment and structures including the brand new Brunswick Bowling Skins Game!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible Pin Action!, April 21, 2002

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Kevin Weller "grog46" (Lockport, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Brunswick Circuit Pro Bowling (Video Game)

I've been playing video bowling games ever since Bowling came out for the Atari 2600. Never have I seen a game that has more realistic pin action than Brunswick Circuit Pro Bowlingby THQ for the Playstation. I'm a bowling fanatic so I'm a hard judge on bowling games. The pin action will leave you in awe. I've played hundreds, perhaps thousands, of games, and still see new pin action at times depending on the bowler, ball, and lane that I use. I never tire of playing this game. I only hope that THQ brings an updated version of this to the Playstation 2!

4.0 out of 5 stars Pro Bowling, April 21, 2008

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Barbara A. Tolson "waldorfbowl" (Waldorf, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Brunswick Circuit Pro Bowling (Video Game)

I bought this game for my 8yr old grandson and he enjoys it but he said it is a little hard for him.