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AMF Bowling 2004 (Xbox)

In AMF Bowling 2004 you can work on your bowling skills in the comfort of your own home. Play with up to three other players. Go head-to-head with pro bowlers. Customize your bowler's appearance and your ball's weight, color and texture. An advanced gameplay engine simulates real ball, pin and lane physics while realistic sound effects and graphics will transport you to a friday night out at the lanes!

Bethesda Softworks
Sports
Players: 4
E (Everyone)
Developer: Jack of All Games
Released December 1, 2003

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

48 / 100

Critic Reviews

60 Xbox Nation Magazine
To the point: It's bowling, it's fun, it's $20. 'Nuff said. [Apr 2004, p.91]
52 GameSpot
Despite its earnest attempt at realism, the game's clunky, overly convoluted interface, general lack of gameplay variety, and incredibly stripped-down presentational aspects leave it dull, confusing, and generally not much fun to play.
50 IGN
Doesn't try to do anything new and can't even offer some of the oomf seen in bowling games from the past.
40 Cheat Code Central
From the graphics to the gameplay this is a game that would be more at home on the PSX than either the Xbox or the PS2. About the only good thing about this game is that it's a budget title. I wouldn't expect any serious gamer to get more than an hour's worth of entertainment from this.
30 GamerFeed
The bowling system is alright but not as challenging as it needed to be, and multiplayer games actually get tedious. Seems like a digital gutter ball, really.
30 Team Xbox
Fails on pretty much every gameplay level. The whole production, from beginning to end, has an unpolished feel that makes it quite hard to stomach.