Your bowler of choice will also have some sort of impact on how you play. The game has plenty of fictional bowlers with different appearances and statistics, though you can also create your own with a surprisingly robust player editor that even includes key bowler-attribute sliders such as "back flab" and "belly."
The game's different modes are mostly just slightly different takes on the same thing. You can play a practice game, get into a quick match, start a league or tournament for up to eight players, and so on. There's also a challenge mode that has you trying to knock down increasingly difficult pin placements in one shot.
We could probably make some kind of reference to The Big Lebowski here, but this game doesn't deserve it.
Visually, the game's a little drab. It's kind of washed out, and the bowlers don't look very good on the lane. They animate reasonably well, though, and the lanes themselves look OK. The game does have widescreen support, though, which is almost surprising, given the budget nature of the rest of the game's looks. The audio is generic, consisting mostly of repetitive and unremarkable music that sounds like it came off of a royalty-free CD.
The game does shine in one particular spot, though perhaps for the wrong reasons. Whenever anything interesting happens on the lanes, such as a gutter-ball, a strike, or a spare, the game quickly cuts to a short and incredibly goofy animated video that features silhouetted girls writhing around for a couple of seconds. It struck us as funny, that's all. But aside from that, this is a really standard bowling game that you'll master almost immediately. It's not worth your time or money, even at its budget price.
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