As DID's long line of award-winning military flight sims portended a promising future, the company began toying with the idea of developing a purely fun military game.
The game offers a great selection of games, six in all. You get four pool Classics (9-Ball, 8-Ball, Rotation, and 14-1 Rack), a Practice Mode, and a five-city National Pool Tour, where you try to become "America's Number One Hustler."
The game is basically a straight-forward, virtual game of the popular American billiards game, 8-ball, but also allows you to play 9-ball or straight pool. You could play the computer or up to seven other players.
The ultra-real physics make Virtual Pool 64 as close to real pool as it gets! Choose from 9 types of pool including favorites like 9-Ball, Straight Pool, 8-Ball and One Pocket. Three levels of difficulty: Amateur, Professional and Championship. Mas..
When the Playstation 2 launched last October, video gamers rejoiced with the prospect of playing on what would surely be the "must have" console system.
Players can "walk" around the table to check out their next shot, take a close-up look, zoom out for the overall picture and line up the shot as they would in a real game with a real table.
But curiosity got the best of me and I bought it anyway. I played it for three days and shelved it. It just wasn't the same without the beer stains on the felt and the thick cloud of smoke hovering above the Coors Light sign. _Virtual Pool 2_ is ve..