Crave Entertainment has finally released the much-anticipated (much anticipated by me, anyways) World Championship Poker 2 video game for Xbox and Playstation, and will be available at retail outlets this week.
Many poker personalities are featured in the game, including Howard Lederer, Clonie Gowen, Paul Darden, Robert Williamson III, Greg Raymer, Amir Vahedi and tournament director Matt Savage.
The game requires you to work your way up from very humble beginnings – your mother’s basement. You can spend winnings on furnishings and better places to live, though if you go on a losing streak you may have to sell off your belongings.
Players will be able to improve themselves through a variety of skills, and will play in locations such as apartments, mansions, Vegas poker rooms and boxing rings.
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1. I'm really positive about the fun of poker playing reaching new audiences on console platforms.
But there seems to be a flood of console games all of a sudden (just like last year's surge in quickie poker player biographies in the book store.
I saw an add for a WSOP game, I've read hype on Stacked, and now this. For the gamer's sake, I hope at least one of these games is top-notch with long-lasting gameplay. It would be a shame if all of these games segment the market and don't generate any cult following.
Imagine a console poker game getting a following on the order of Madden football over a decade ago (surely lower in numbers, but still the same level of following and desire to play each year's update.)
Posted at 2:44PM on Nov 3rd 2005 by Valuecall