Customer Reviews

Strike Force Bowling

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

I bought this game for $10 at Best Buy. It's a pretty fun game multiplayer, but playing against the computer can get boring fairly fast.

I'm not going to lie, the graphics are down right terrible and players are limited to very few movements and look choppy. However, we all know that graphics don't make a game. It's a fairly challenging game, with a lot of fun places you can bowl other than the ol' bowling alley, including the jungle and a pirate ship. Some of the characters are laugable as well, besides your average bowlers, you can also bowl as a skeleton or an alien.

All in all, Strike Force is a decent game, and it's nice to see that there is a bowling game out there. It could provide a fun Friday night with some friends, but don't expect to play it much alone. It's certainly worth the $10-$15 price tag.

Given that this is the only bowling game on the PS2 I could have given it 4 stars for that alone. However, it's a nice little game that isn't great and isn't terrible. I like the variety of locations from playing in a regular bowling alley to the moon, ancient Egypt, the wild west, Japan and a pirate ship. I like the crazy cast of characters, the silly bowling balls and even the novel idea of "golf" on a bowling alley. The graphics are tolerable, the music changes depending on the location and you can play tourneys, skins games, golf or practice. After good rolls, there is an automatic replay that shows you 3 different angles at once which is nice. Plus you can unlock hidden lanes.
However, with all of that being said, this game still feels empty. Even though you have a choice of characters, they all throw the ball the same. There is no difference between the guy, the little girl and the alien. The ball comes out the same. Only the character looks different. Most of all, it's just shallow. If you play a tourney, it's all over in a matter of like 20 minutes. To make it worse, I found that each bowler has a spot that you can actually count the boards over from the gutter, set him up, hit the "x" button once, then sit back and watch the ball go into the pocket consistently. I have yet to bowl a perfect game but I have come pretty close. The replay value just isn't here. If there was a deeper tourney mode or if you could build your player like a golf game that might help. But unlocking the night version of each lane or playing a golf game just doesn't do it for me.
Don't get me wrong. Until there is another bowling game for the PS2 I will continue playing Strike Force and it is a fun little game that is worth it's asking price. but, don't expect anything more than that. Unfortunately, all of us bowling fans out here have been thrown a bone when were expecting some meat.

I've owned every bowling game ever made for the Playstation 1. While I've enjoyed them all, some were better than others. Strike Force Bowling is the first bowling game for the Playstation 2. It's a simple, modest beginning. The game is easy to pick up and start playing. There's a standard alley and a bunch of unusual ones. The graphics are solid, pin action is terrific!, and the adjustable camera angles are a welcome relief to other games that didn't offer any. Overall, Strike Force Bowling is a very enjoyable game with enough variations to keep you occupied for some time. Don't miss it, especially at this price!

OK so I purchased this game because it was cheap at a local store. Usually I check Amazon.com out to see what other people thought of a game before I buy it but nobody had ever written a review here so I guess I am the first one. Someone told me that it was like the bowling version of Hot Shots Golf 3 - a cheesey yet fun and addictive arcade version of a sport. Aside from the ability to bowl in a normal bowling alley, you can bowl on an egyptian pyramid, space ship or pirate ship. Lets start with the positive: its a fairly easy game to understand and control (didn't even have to read the instructions), a good concept and fun when playing with a couple others and a cheap price. Now the bad: little to no features (create a player would have been nice), absolutley poor graphics (something I expect out of a Super Nintendo) and poor camera angles (the player gets in the way of the lane so you have to assume you where you are going to bowl - sounds bad but you get used to it). Overall, this is simply a game that is blah - nothing great, nothing extremley horrible, the fact that the price to but it is basically the equivalent of renting it 3 times made it worth my while.

This is an inexpensive and fun title that is a must have for your family PS2 collection. Not only is there traditional bowling, but you also get to bowl in many other scenarios (wild west, on the beach, etc.). The game is easy to learn, but challenging enough to be highly addicting. Your family will fight over this game, saying "I'm next!"

Well i'll be, a bowling game huh? Not as bad as AMF but not as good as Cricuit Pro 1&2 or ten pin alley, this game offers a variety of bowlers, balls and locations to test your bowling skill. The fun of unlocking various characters and locations is great until 10 minutes later you realized that everything is basically done and you have nothing to look forward to. Well how about winning money in tournaments? Well 5 minutes into gameplay I found a mark in the gutter that allows you to shoot 300 for 6 games without resetting the oil averaging 300 for 87 games you get bored with winning tournaments. If you dont cheat, the game is more challenging. Not bad but not good either!

I found this the other day in a bargain game bin at Best Buy; the price was practically next to nothing, so I picked it up. It's very different than your standard bowling game, but that's what gives it its' character & makes it fun. I spent the first 15 minutes laughing hysterically at some of the areas that you can bowl in, and the rest of the time getting addicted to the gameplay.

My favorite alley is on the pirate ship, where you have Captain Hook standing on one side waving his hook back & forth as well as a couple of ship mates waving their fists & cheering you on as you bowl. Hilarious! You have a traditional bowling alley as well as a Buddhist temple garden (complete with a Buddha statue!), a moonbase, a tropical island (with tiki heads for pins), an Egyptian desert (with the Sphinx looking on), etc. Yes, the characters have very limited movements/reactions & are a bit 1-dimensional graphics-wise, but the backgrounds & scenery are awesome!

For the low price, this isn't a bad game at all; give it a try, you'll get hooked on it!

strike force bowling is a fun game to play with the whole family i like all the different charactors thay have in it and its really easy to learn and would recommend it to everyone who enjoys bowling

This is a pretty fun game that most anyone can play. The shot is set-up first and then the swing is a button, not one of the joysticks on the controller, which I think requires a little less skill than some action games. It's still fun though, and it makes the game accessible to younger (and older) players that might get frustrated otherwise. It is still challenging, and there are a lot of fun different scenarios to bowl in (pirates ships, Wild West, etc.).

On a related note, the game disc is a blueish color, and if your PS2 laser reader is a bit dirty, or if there is a buildup of dust where the disc sits, you may get a disk read error even though your PS2 will play all your other games (as the blue disc is tougher to read). If you have an problem with this, clean the area in the PS2 where the disc sits, and the laser - lots of video on YouTube about this. I suggest that you try these things before messing with height adjustments as some videos suggest, as these two simple things will usually fix it and then the game runs great. Clean out excess dust while you are in there to keep it running clean!

This game is great. Love it. As an adult, it's lots of fun. My hubby and I enjoy it.