Championship Pool
Smashing balls together: the simulatorGenre: sports - pool
Publisher: Mindscape
Year: 1993
System: Genesis
Gameplay Score: 1
Gameplay Notes:
What a simulation! You can get real precise with the angle, placement, spin, and power on your shot. There's even some randomness given how much power you use. They did the best they could with the technical limitations, especially the limited screen resolution. Impressive stuff. Expert the face that everything is buried on the pause screen. But is it any fun? Well, not really. The precision is impressive but also stupidly unforgiving. The only way to ever make a shot is to turn on easy mode which shows the exact path of the ball you're aiming at which eliminates nearly all drama. I say nearly all because there's still that a bit of randomness. So the game is less of a game and more of a subpixel finder.
Level Design Score: 2
Level Design Notes:
Every sort of pool game you can imagine. I've never heard of 90% of the games and modes included here. Someone would be excited about this but it's all just hitting the ball so all the "levels" feel the same to me.
Theme Score: 1
Theme Notes:
It's pool. A game best played in real life, to be perfectly honest.
Art Style Score: 0
Art Style Notes:
Only a top down view. The SNES version have you a couple of other, more visually impressive views to choose from. Teeny tiny balls make it frustrating to align your shot.
Audio Score: 1
Audio Notes:
There's a "jukebox" which lets you choose one of 8 songs. They're all horrible hillbilly crap so you'll mute it regardless. The crack of the balls sounds nice but since it's muted you won't hear it.
Overall Score: 23
Review ID: 821
No comments:
Post a Comment