Gaming Console Network Reviews High Velocity Bowling for PS3

Via GCN:

"High Velocity Bowling is actually a very worthy buy from the PSN. At $9.99 (seriously, the game is $9.99… not $10.00 or $10.55… If you put $10 into your PSN account you are left with a penny in your account after you buy this game.) the game is fun and has potential for a worthy sequel (with some online play). High Velocity Bowling does take a bit to get used too in terms of how you bowl, but once you get it down the game is very fun and it is something you can always go back to and try to get that perfect 300. High Velocity Bowling is about a 550 MB download. A very worthy buy for your Playstation 3 system."

Overall: 7.5/10

[aiphanes]

It is way better than Wii sports bowling..

[gamesR4fun]

cool cant understand why no onlile tho? prob gonna try hitting us up for another 5$ later Im guessing...

[Skerj]

I wanna get it but I'm scared of my tard friends playing without a controller tether and chucking it into my tv, then the eternal fight will be on. Maybe I should make a strap Macgyver style. OMG a strap/USB charger!!

[kalistyles]

and it is really good. I have the Wii also and I think it is better than Wii Bowling. Although a strap would be nice. I accidentally hit the side of my leg while bowling and the controller went flying. So Skerj I would definitely think about inventing some kind of strap especially if your going to let your friends try it. Gets an 8/10 in my book.

[Blademask]

at the beginning talks about conduct online etc etc, I wonder if its just standard? But it says "IF YOU DONT AGREE YOU CAN NOT PLAY THIS GAME ONLINE"

SO... whats the deal?

[the worst]

finally i can play my game and songs
off my hard drive
at the same time
i 250g hard drive load with songs

[EastCoastSB]

Very fun game, I was shocked that we could actually use our own music.

[Milkman541]

A very good game, with a pretty decent learning curve. It's not like wii bowling where everyone who plays scores 200 or better. I bet on most people's first try they were under 100. Def worth the 10 bucks.

[PimpHandHappy]

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[razer]

I finally unlocked all the bowlers, balls, costumes last night. Still trying to bowl a 300. I like this game much better than Wii Bowling.

[aiphanes]

Oh and people you can play your own music in the game! Awesome..

I bet online play is comming it was just not ready yet...If they can add online to Tekken 5...then they can add online to this game and Pain.

[gamesblow]

Thsi game makes everything motion controlled before it, yes anything on the wii, seem dated! This is bowling! Thsiis about as close as you will get on a console, that's for sure.

You hold the controller like a bowling ball and you add spin by hitting the l-2 and R-2 buttons at will. You release and it'as just awesome!

This, hands down, is the best 10 bucks I've ever spent. I'm amazed, shocked and suprised. It's just awesome! I've waited for this game since feb when I 1sst heard of it and the wait was well worth it.

It's light on a few options, but that is rectified once oyu start unlocking characters and clothes and balls and such. The balls, which I loved, all play differently too. Some balls you can litterally see the weight behind them as they bounce 1 time and then stroll to the end.

Buy this game!!! Do it and don't ask any questions! Pain, while good, isn't worth the 10 bucks. HVB is worth 20 if you had to pay a premium price for it! Lucky for us, we don't. It's 10 and it's awesome and it's here right now!

Also, custom music... Any song on your hdd can be played at will here while playing the game. It adds merit to the small, but convising bowling alley. More lanes and other bowlers would've been super shap to look at though.

[bootsielon]

How is it bowling when you have to press buttons to "spin" the ball? I'm not hating, I just want to see how can that be possible. Wii Sports has the same flaw, actually.

[gamesblow]

I said as close as you can get on a video game console... But, alas... You do have to spin the ball by pressing L2 or R2, but when you do it... you are back in mid throw and it comes off very natrual. It's a game you'll have to play to understand what I mean.

This is the best bowling game ever made. Bar none!

[FamilyGuy]

is too crowed for this

Awesome as a family game but i will have to wait for online, maybe the DS3 will hit US shelves by then as well and then i'll have three controllers, though i would think you could play this game with four people using just one. Not like its gonna have a four player split screen when people could just take turns...

Enlighten me on this :/

[MatteLeDog]

Bought this from U.S store even though I live in Europe (f'ck the stupid regional differences in PS store), couldn't wait for it to be released here, and I'm loving it. Have also played a lot of wii bowling and this is way better in my opinion, on wii bowling a friend of mine immediately found a way of just sitting down waving his arm in a certain way and got strike every time, f'cked up and annoying. And at least the perverted mustasch guy in HVB is a lot more fun than the retarded looking casual-gaming-characters of wii sports, "I hope the girls are invited"

[EZCheez]

And maybe its the alcohol, but this game is a lot of fun. A lot more fun that I had imagined it would be. In fact, I had been arguing with myself for a while about getting it until now. I'm glad I did. In fact, I think it's better than Pain.

[Lord_Mike]

Great game, well worth the $9.99 bucks I payed. Much more interesting and fun than Wii bowling. SixAxis is more accurate but Wii's controller is more comfortable. I already unlocked 4 characters, the games AI is pretty tough.

[WeaseL]

I'm glad my UK Credit Card works on the US store because this is a great game