Rating: 3.8/5
Genre: SportsChampionship Pool is a pool simulation game. A decent game if it weren't for the poor use of controls and overly zoomed pool table view. It never felt like I was playing pool, more like I was in a teaching/training simulation. Controls are limited in the main game with the ability to shoot, with a ghost showing the trajectory and speed, and choose how hard you'll shoot. The ghost ball just takes half the challenge out of the game, though without a representation of the stick or angle or how you line the shot up, I suppose it's the only way to make the game playable. You don't see the CPU's turn but instead get a little cut away to a text block summizing what happened. Moving around the table is excruciatingly slow and takes away much of the fun. Sound is limited but not annoying. Sounds like some bar jukebox jam as BGM. But it ends abruptly for no reason to restart. Graphics are pretty low-key, nothing amazing here. There are 4 modes of gameplay including a freeplay mode where you can 'cheat' with extended controls over the table under the start button which is pretty fun.
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