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First a confession; I'm a complete pinball maniac. When I go to an arcade, I hunt down the latest pinball games before I attack the latest video game. So when I saw Last Gladiator Pinball for my Sega, I snatched it up, thinking at only 12 bucks, it'll be a great addition to my Saturn library. How wrong I was!

SOUND: 5/10

At first, the goofy 1980's style rock music was a fun reminder of the height of pinball in the US. That quickly wore off. Each CD Track for the 4 pinball machines is fairly short, and the special music cues on each board are a quick music loop played over and over again. Sometimes I'd just let a ball sink to end that annoying music for the round. The game has a lot of sampled human voices, the problem is that you hear the same samples over and over again! So on one ball you might hear the SAME sample more than TEN times! Agony!!!

GRAPHICS: 7/10

The graphics were fairly good. The game producers actually scanned in video footage of actors in full costume for some portions of the game and the back glass display. Unfortunately the important part of the graphics, the playfield, was over-looked. Make no doubts, the fields are beautiful to look at, but trying to read what the targets say is next to impossible! When the game tells you "Hit the Power Loop!" you've got to GUESS what blinking light is the Power Loop!

GAMEPLAY: 0/10

That's where LGP sucked the most. The pinball physics are there; the ball moves in very realistic arcs and multiball games are possible.... But it is SO easy! The challenge of making shots is dead. You can loop balls over and over again INFINITELY! Losing a ball is next to impossible, and with only a handful of targets available on each board, each game gets old very fast.

REPLAY VALUE: 1/10

Yawn. After about two weeks of occasional game play, I traded this lame monster back to the store....

OVERALL SCORE: 0.2/10

That's right, zero POINT two! Ugh! The only games for the Saturn worse than this beast are those games that have never come to the States because of executive craziness at Sega of America! The best part of this game were the live action opening credits. The most I suggest anybody paying for this waste of plastic is four dollars. And that's just for a die hard pinball fanatic that NEEDS a pinball game on the Saturn! This game was SO bad, it dimmed me on even CONSIDERING buying another Saturn pinball game!