Spent an hour or two playing multiplayer mode and, all in all, it's a pretty good take on the game.
The look and style of the game is in keeping with the plethora of poker tournaments that have become so common on late night TV and, surprisingly, it does add a certain something and makes for a more engaging game than the well established Texas Hold 'Em on XBL.
Unfortunately the developers haven't focused as much energy on providing the same levels of data as you get on TV poker shows. There are no on-screen percentages, no data to show how much each player has put into the pot and, depending on the camera, when players turn their hands over it's sometimes difficult to see what they are. The latter is difficult to exuse considering all they had to do was, again, copy the way hands are shown on TV tournaments. But hopefully they'll sort that out with a patch.
As seems the norm in every game nowadays, there's an extensive experience system in place. You gain experience from almost every action (being dealt a hand, folding a hand that would have lost, winning a hand, a winning streak, busting a player out, etc.) and as you level up you unlock new chip tricks, emotions, costumes to wear at the table, new cards, decor and so on. It's a bit gimmicky for my liking but does I suppose inject some variety to proceedings at the table.
The true selling point for keen poker fans are the game's live tournaments which, hopefully, should provide some proper games of poker and eradicate much of the silly 'all-in' nonsense that plague Texas Hold 'Em on XBL and free table internet poker.
So yeah. not a perfect representation of the game by any means, but definitely a good tool by which poker fans can better their game.
The look and style of the game is in keeping with the plethora of poker tournaments that have become so common on late night TV and, surprisingly, it does add a certain something and makes for a more engaging game than the well established Texas Hold 'Em on XBL.
Unfortunately the developers haven't focused as much energy on providing the same levels of data as you get on TV poker shows. There are no on-screen percentages, no data to show how much each player has put into the pot and, depending on the camera, when players turn their hands over it's sometimes difficult to see what they are. The latter is difficult to exuse considering all they had to do was, again, copy the way hands are shown on TV tournaments. But hopefully they'll sort that out with a patch.
As seems the norm in every game nowadays, there's an extensive experience system in place. You gain experience from almost every action (being dealt a hand, folding a hand that would have lost, winning a hand, a winning streak, busting a player out, etc.) and as you level up you unlock new chip tricks, emotions, costumes to wear at the table, new cards, decor and so on. It's a bit gimmicky for my liking but does I suppose inject some variety to proceedings at the table.
The true selling point for keen poker fans are the game's live tournaments which, hopefully, should provide some proper games of poker and eradicate much of the silly 'all-in' nonsense that plague Texas Hold 'Em on XBL and free table internet poker.
So yeah. not a perfect representation of the game by any means, but definitely a good tool by which poker fans can better their game.
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