New from IT – Silver Strike Bowling 2009

Incredible Technologies has launched a new website for their latest title, Silver Strike 2009: Bowler’s Club.  Building upon the same formula that has made other Silver strike titles so popular, SSB09 adds some new tournament features that seek to attract even more players to the franchise. With the last SSB title IT ran several sweepstakes that proved to be quite popular with over $250,000 in prizes awarded already and with 09 they promise to expand on that program where “10 winners will be crowned each week in addition to the famous monthly grand prizes” (just to give you an idea they have given away some really cool prizes including new Harley Davidson motorcycles, new cars and more). They also will be running their $100,000 national championship between April 15th – May 31st with finals being held in Las Vegas, only on SSB09.

As for new features they have added a throwback bracket mode where players can essentially create their own leagues with 4-16 players. A Red Pin Free game mode has been added where non-registered players can win a free game – if they manage to make five red pin strikes. And finally they have added “SSB Survivor”, an elimination mode where players must make strikes to stay in the game, which can also make for a great tournament. They also state on the site that the game will feature new and exclusive online features although beyond online leaderboards it doesn’t cover everything those features entail.

As far as I can tell, the only thing they are missing to make this one of the best selling games ever is Wiimote support. It sure has worked out for Nintendo…

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