The career mode, which is surely the real point of the game, lets you play your way through a series of tournaments in various locations on the official tour, in a range of difficulty levels. And if that weren't enough, there's even the option to invent your own card game, letting you play around with many aspects of the rules until you've developed something entirely of your own creation. There's Hold 'Em, Five Card Draw, Seven-Card Stud, the mind-hurting Omaha, Shanghai, Billabong and Hi/Lo and then a bunch of Hold 'Em variants including Super Hold 'Em, Pineapple, Crazy Pineapple, and Tahoe. The instant games let you play against as few or as many as you wish, for whichever stakes you choose, in a large array of poker types. Which is doubly strange since the game itself features a 50/50 split of the two human sorts. In a really odd oversight, unless of course I've managed to miss an option that I spent a good while searching for, they forgot an entire gender. You can tweak every microscopic detail of the face, letting you generate any shape, colour or age in refined detail. Right at the beginning it offers a remarkably malleable character creator. While WPT frequently descends into farce, it can occasionally surprise here and there. World Poker Tour is certainly an effective step forward in replicating the pursuit on a console, but unfortunately the previous step was flipping miles off. I'm not brilliant, but I can hold my own. I go to a 40-player tournament twice a week, and often find myself wiling away a quiet hour with some online play at a safely priced 5/10c table. The continuing international phenomenon of Texas Hold 'Em (such that you can't turn on Rich Man's Telly without at least one channel showing a game, any time of day) means that everyone's trying to find ways to make a buck (so long as it doesn't involve actually playing Texas Hold 'Em) before the fad fades away.ĭon't get me wrong - I've fully embraced the fad. We do seem to be rather lacking a decent poker game. Second, if you want to play online poker, there are ridiculous numbers of far easier ways to do it, with infinitely more appropriate interfaces, making the online options of WPT entirely defunct from the off.) First, I played it on PS2 and I'm not a witch. (From the start, it's probably best to establish that this is a single-player review of World Poker Tour, despite its online capabilities.
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