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World Series of Poker 2008: Battle for the Bracelets
Posted by admin on 05 4th, 2010 | 5 responses
I have two PCs, a state of the art computer (2GB of RAM, Athlon FX-60 processor, Vista, decent graphics card), and an older laptop. On my laptop the game is unplayable as others have reported. On the newer computer, the game plays ok but has a couple major flaws: 1) it will not run in the resolution of my monitor (1280×1024), so everything looks a little distorted; 2) in “medium” speed mode, when you make your choice as a player, it sits and waits for 1-5 seconds before reacting, which is super annoying; and 3) there are way too many unnecessary dialog boxes which pop asking you to confirm and reconfirm your choices.
There issues could all be fixed, along with the issues users have reported, if Activision would issue a patch for this game. If they were to do it, the game would be fun (though it has some other minor flaws I could live with, like useless tips that say “Warning, going on tilt is bad for your bankroll.” No kidding.).
As the game stands, it’s an embarrassment for Activision and any of the poker players associated with it, especially Phil Hellmuth.
Will Activision step up and fix this unfinished game?
Rating: 2 / 5
Wow what a disapointment! Couldn’t even make it through one hand it was so slow. My computer is less than a year old and has about 4x the minimum requirements as reccomended on the box. I have the ‘07 version for PS2 and that played fine. I read about poor reviews for the ‘07 pc version so I waited for ‘08 to come out. I will contact activision to see if there is any updates. The funny thing is they list hours available, a fax number and an email address. I guess they don’t want you to contact them by phone. If I make any progress I will update this review.
My friends and I are just looking for a poker game that we can all play online. If anybody has any recomendations let me know.
Rating: 1 / 5
My computer has an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.13 GHz, 2 GB RAM, and a NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE video card. It’s better than 90% of the computers in use across the U.S. today. The training videos are choppy. The play is incredibly slow. I use a left-handed track ball; this program doesn’t recognize my track ball settings. I e-mailed support with these issues. The e-mail delivery failed. I assume their support e-mail box is full. If these problems are fixed it looks like a great game. Were I you, I wouldn’t buy it right now. This is a massive bug that makes this game a cup coaster.
Rating: 1 / 5
I have experienced the same video problems that many others have with this game. When I first purchased the game I was using an ATI X850XT video card and had no problems playing this game. I recently upgraded my video card to an NVidia 8800GT and the game would go “crazy” after about five minutes with flashing and flaky video problems to where I could barely figure out how to exit the game. It was unplayable and very frustrating. I looked for updates from Activision (of which there were NONE) and read many complaints on the net about others having problems as well. I even updated my video drivers to the latest version at the time. Nothing worked UNTIL today! I just updated my video drivers to the latest version (version 169.38) and now it works perfectly! I don’t know what it is about the older NVidia drivers, but they fixed something in this latest version that also fixed the video issues with this game. I recommend anyone who has a fairly recent NVidia card to update to this driver version and see if it works for you. I don’t think the ATI cards are having same issues, but I could be wrong. Hope this helps! As far as the game itself, it is very enjoyable once it all works and I do recommend it if you can get it to work properly.
Rating: 4 / 5
First off – this game works fine on my four-year old 2.2 MHz P4 running XP Pro. I installed it, it’s fine. Gameplay’s a little slow (I have it set on “Normal”), but that’s more realistic than a lot of online games, frankly. The instructions are non-existent.
But the AI? I’ve seen reviews that say the players’ playing style is just like real life. Umm…not so much. These players all play the same way (so far – I’ve only had the game for a week.) I’ve never seen Scotty Nguyen and Johnny Chan check all the way through a hand in a real tournament, and they’re not the only ones. All of them are predictable as anything. I had David Williams to my right in my first tournament, and I knew each and every time that, if nobody called and he was in the small blind, he was going to go all in to try to steal my big blind – all I needed was a marginally playable hand to call and bust him. Actually, most of the players do that – go all in in the small blind in a steal attempt. And most of them succeed because the AI player to THEIR left folds every time. In my first tournament, I’ve been one of the chip leaders throughout and am currently at the final table with six players left. I don’t think I’m really good enough to do that well against the REAL pros. If I thought I were really this good, I’d have no problem shelling out ten grand to play in next year’s Main Event.
Then there are their lines. If I hear Scotty Nguyen say, “You trying to push me out just because I’m short-stacked, baby?” one more time, I think I’ll scream. Other players have equally repetitive lines.
BTW, if you can’t see your cards, hit the backspace button. Just like the picture shows.
For better hold’em play, I recommend “Stacked” if you can find it (it’s pretty inexpensive these days). But this game includes all of the games included in the real WSOP, which was its main selling point as far as I was concerned.
Rating: 3 / 5