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Playstation : Virtual Pool Reviews

Gas Gauge: 58
Gas Gauge 58
Below are user reviews of Virtual Pool and on the right are links to professionally written reviews. The summary of review scores shows the distribution of scores given by the professional reviewers for Virtual Pool. Column height indicates the number of reviews with a score within the range shown at the bottom of the column. Higher scores (columns further towards the right) are better.

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Game Spot 74
CVG 30
IGN 70






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Hmmmm....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Virtual Pool for the PS was the first billiards game that was available....and its age shows the moment you load it up.
The graphics and colors are plain and ugly. Striking the balls with the cue ball any faster than SLOW (especially on a break) makes the balls warp all over the table in different directions- it's impossible to track the path of a single ball. The sounds the balls make caroming off others is the same and at times, mistimed due to how fast you hit them, what other balls are around, etc. The game engine is SUPER SLOW, sometimes having to wait upwards of a minute between shots by your opponent.
During tournament play, you don't have the aiming lines like most other pool games....you have to REALLY take your time and line up your shot, sometimes from all possible angles available.
Not that that's a bad thing, because aiming lines really don't add to the skill required to play pool, but it would have been better than using the choppy camera panning around the table trying to line up your shot. The sounds the balls make when sunk in the pockets is the same, and doesn't even really sound like they would on a real table.

The one and only thing that saved this game from a less than average score were the full-motion videos starring Machine Gun Lou Butera. He shows how to make about 50 different trick shots, and I must say, he is DAMN good. I just sat there in awe watching him make some UNBELIEVABLE shots- Canoga Park Curve, and running a rack of balls in less than a minute and thirty seconds....whoa....
And not only can you watch him make them, you can try them out yourself as well, so you can feel all cool.

Overall, 5 out of 10. Championship Pool or even Side Pocket for the Super NES are more solid titles.


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