Ok, I was able to sit down and test these 3 games for a decent amount of time when I should have been working. Needless to say the interns got plenty of on-the-job experience today :p
Anyway, I'm far from a professional reviewer, and the liquor in my system may skew my judgement a little :cheers:, but here goes...
Texas Hold'Em (AI Software)
Graphically, this was the least attractive of the three. Apparently, you are playing on a white table mat, and the cards appear to have smeared jam or something on them. There is no sound, and unfortunately, the demo version is locked on "amateur" difficulty level... I was able to bluff almost every game :hide:. I wasn't enjoying myself at this point, and I decided to try...
Pocket Rockets Pro (BigSlick Software Inc.)
Wow, the title alone brought a smile to my face! I started it up and was immediately impressed by the graphics. One of the coolest things I read at the website was the fact that you can hook up with some buddies via infrared and go at it! Then I thought, "Gee, not all of my friends have a pda, and will the ones that own one want to spend $15 on a poker game to play virtual Texas Hold'Em?" I figure... if my friends and I were actually hanging out, we could play the real thing with a 2 dollar deck of cards. Part of the fun of this game is the interaction and looking into your drunk friend's eyes to try to figure out if he's bluffing or not. The infrared thing didn't seem so cool any more :crooked:
So on the gameplay side of it - it's just you and Big Philly in a high stakes game of virtual poker! I suppose this big baller with 10k in his sock is willing to play you (you start with $99 big ones) to help your career going. I would prefer more opponents myself - even AI ones. Well, Big Philly didn't fall for all my bluffs, so it was a little more fun. The interface, however, is attractive as with big buttons for calling, raising and folding and big blue word balloons to indicate such.
It has a few different modes (career and tournament) that didn't seem to differ a whole heck of a lot. Another slight caveat I had was how slow things move... the menu screens move in slow, the cards are dealt slow. This started to wear on me after a while :bang:
So except for the nice graphics and very nice help screens (a tutorial), I figured I'd hold onto my $14.95 and move onto...
Crazy Bird's PokerHand (Birdsoft)
The website has a screenshot with a picture of a dog who appears to be wearing a bathrobe. "My kind of humor!", I thought. Upon closer inspection, it just appears to be a dog draped on a couch or something (can someone please clarify?).
To my dismay, the demo only contained 1 version of poker (Omaha?) and no Texas Hold 'Em
, but the full version has 11 different Poker games. The graphics were simple, and it had pings and beeps which were enough for me, so I decided to re-visit the website for a little more info. There I saw...
Card Backs, including new custom card backs (make your own)
Player Names
Table and Text Colors
Custom Background Images - Use Today Theme Images!
I'm a graphics designer, so this seemed extremely cool to me... I could make the background an actual game table! Put pictures of me on the card backs! Use a profane player name when I'm feeling particularly juvenile! And the greatest thing I saw at the website...
Only $8.50
I could put the money I save toward a new sd card...
So, I decided to buy Crazy Bird's PokerHand. It'll serve its purpose and kill time when I'm not physically with my buddies playing Texas Hold 'Em... and I don't need fancy graphics and infrared when I'm playing a little poker-to-go. Ultimately, the few dollars I save can go into my Axim Accessory Fund (512, here I come!).
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