Xbox 360 Critic Reviews

Soundtrack worthy of a Danny Ocean and Tarantino showdown. [Feb 2008, p.80]

Rocketbowl is not a title to just brush off. It has a lot of features to it that are fun and exciting. Getting your friends online to have an online tournament and show off your skills you honed from the single player.

It’s far from perfect, but the simplicity of bowling is mixed up with fresh ideas, crazily constructed courses and a quick clip at which to play.

At its core, RocketBowl is a unique and potentially delightful mini-game. Unfortunately, much like the balls and lanes at a cheap alley, the end result could use more polish.

There’s a lot to keep you going in Rocket Bowl, but it’s sort of a one-trick pony. There are a lot of courses, but not much overall variety from one to the next.

Despite the things RocketBowl gets right, most players are more likely to pick up on this thread of general lack of ambition over anything else.

RocketBowl reinvents bowling through the introduction of rockets and minigolf-style courses, but isn't nearly as much fun as it sounds.

It’s a nice idea and it’s fun for a few rounds, but it’s boring as heck after that.

You can sort of see how the concept for Rocket Bowl must have seemed like a good idea, and for a few minutes it's certainly interesting to play around and enjoy the admittedly good physics.

Rocket Bowl takes two relatively boring video game genres and creates an entirely new boring genre from them.