Bowling comes back to videogames as PBA Pro Bowling is the first officially licensed video game designed for consoles in more than 30 years. The game will retail for $19.99.
The developed FarSight Studios will allows gamers to interactively “bowl” against more than 15 PBA stars, including Jason Belmonte, Jakob Butturff, EJ Tackett, Norm Duke and others, with commentary provided by PBA announcers Rob Stone and Randy Pedersen.
PBA Pro Bowling will feature a bevvy of modes such as the extensive career mode which includes more than 100 virtual tournaments and dozens of venues. The developer promises accurate motion-captured animations resulting the best bowling physics ever incorporated into a video game. Aside from the career mode, the game will offer quickplay and local multi-player modes and E-Sports style online tournaments. Players will also be able to use optional power-ups and special balls.
Here’s what FarSight Studios Vice President Bobby King had to say about this new bowling game:
“It’s been our dream to create an official PBA video game with the real pros since a lot of us watched the PBA Tour growing up. We’re proud of the game that we’ve created and can’t wait for people to check out just how easy and fun it is to play for casual bowlers, while still being difficult to master in Simulation Mode.”
FarSight Studios also plans to supporting the game with additional updates such as adding “Simulation” controls, additional PBA stars, venues, bowling equipment and other challenges in the near future.
The easy-to-use “Arcade” controls are patterned after the hugely popular PBA Bowling Challenge for mobile devices from Concrete Software.