It's your control. It's your highway into Hooked City. Moving the mouse left, right, forward and back rotates the cue around the cue ball. Click and move for zoom. But here's the sting I'm convinced. Because the animation is so smooth and fast, the void between player and virtual world is bridged with something Brunei would be proud of. Time it right, too, and the coins should go everywhere.
Just like real life. Coupled with realistic sound effects for striking, kisses and cushions and, indeed, I found myself hooked. I decided to have a browse through the manual to see just what this baby was capable of. Spin, or "English" to give it the correct name, can be had without fear of felt ripping or the ball landing in someone's pint.
Power shots, fine tuning - they're all here. Everything you could imagine has been included and more. There's an animated history of the game itself in a very Gilliam-esque style. This tells of its beginnings as an indoor lawn game and comes with info on some of the 20th century's greatest players. There's also a pool tutor and literally dozens of trick shots all with accompanying videos. I was liking this more and more. At this point I could almost feel my hair going greasy and a need to buy an all-weather, plastic waterproof with the ability to fold up into its own pocket.
I ran from my house and made for my local where I spent an interesting couple of hours with an ostrich called Sfaro 12 cans of aggro-lager does me quite nicely, thank you very much. The next day got me thinking an all-new experience and one I must remember to try again. This game has network play. Two players can play over a network. A quick game of pool before lunch, maybe? Or perhaps a quick afternoon taster, to ready yourself for the real thing come evening? Good idea. However it's the modem link option that scares me.
The CompuServe children who hang around the Action games forum chatting "across the net" under names like Dr Axe-Head and other such nom de plumes may never get to see a real pool table. If sims are this good, what in five years?
We seem to be changing from a social society to a solitary society where everything will be done from the home, across the "superhighway" You may recall that one of the most popular games of was the superb Virtual Pool from Interplay. Now, Interplay has decided to follow up Virtual Pool with another equally exciting green-baize sim, Virtual Snooker.
Snooker differs from pool in a number of ways, but mainly in that it's played on a larger table. Like billiards, it has a slightly less raffish reputation than pool, and calls for a little more in the way of strategy and tactics. It's also a little more measured in its pacing, which probably accounts for its greater popularity in Europe and Canada than in America. Virtual Snooker comes to us, as did Virtual Pool, with a money-back guarantee to anyone whose actual snooker game doesn't improve as a result of playing the virtual game.
All the play and action of the real game is featured here: it calculates friction, cushion response and cue-ball spin for accurate play. Tracking lines will also help you improve your game. Again, as with its pool predecessor, amazing 3D graphics give a realistic perspective to the game, allowing players to well,"virtually" A bonus is that you'll be able to enjoy 30 minutes of video footage with six-time world snooker champion, Steve Davis.
Developed by Celeris, Inc. So shake off that poolhall chalk and dust, and settle into a game more redolent of the Officers' Mess or the Gentlemen's club than the risky haunts of Fast Eddie Felson and Minnesota Fats. Interplay effectively brings the pool hall to your PlayStation with Virtual Pool. You can play solo or challenge a friend to 8-Ball, 9-Ball, Straight, and Rotation. A thorough options menu customizes everything from camera angles, stick handling, and shooting the cue ball.
Impressive BD graphics create a real-time, degree environment that lets you move around and view the table from any angle. The controls are exact and enable you to plan each shot using actual pool-table physics. Mixed tunes and good background sound effects complete the experience. Community Hub. Virtual Pool 4. Virtual Pool 4 is the most comprehensive cue sport game ever! Recent Reviews:. All Reviews:. Popular user-defined tags for this product:.
Is this game relevant to you? Sign In or Open in Steam. Languages :. View Steam Achievements Includes 44 Steam Achievements. Publisher: Celeris. Share Embed. Add to Cart. View Community Hub. Compete for a season in Pro Tour Career. Play against real pros and top amateurs as virtual opponents. Start on the Local tour and work up through the Regional, National, and finally the World tour. See tour rankings and player statistics. Try to earn all the tour achievements for each tour game.
Each season includes several tournaments with different formats including single elimination, double elimination, and special invitational. Start in the Garage and gamble your virtual bankroll through six locations and hundreds of opponents in Hustler career play. Beat the room boss to advance to the next location.
Opponents become more challenging in later locations and the betting stakes go up! Some locations occasionally have tournaments for a change of pace in this pressure packed gambling odyssey. Use some hard earned virtual cash to buy break cues, jump cues and low deflections cue shafts. Careers setup includes seventeen different game choices and five skill levels.
Learn to play better pool! Video tutorials with Steve Daking cover all you need to know to improve your real life and your virtual pool game. After each tutorial segment, you can play and practice each lesson shot in Virtual Pool 4! If you have any Nero products installed, try uninstalling and see if VP4 runs.
Older versions of ffdshow have problems. If you have ffdshow installed, try uninstalling and see if VP4 runs. Video players installs usually install codecs and could install on of the offenders. So uninstall and 3rd party video players and see if VP4 runs. Usually these uninstalls can be done from Control Panel, Programs and Features, double click on the program to uninstall. Do I need to have administrator privileges to run the installation?
Yes, you should always install Virtual Pool 4 with an account that has administrative privileges. My anti-virus give me an alert when I try to download, open or run the Virtual Pool 4 installer?
Virtual Pool 4 does not have any viruses but some anti-virus may trigger an alert. Turn off the real time detection during download and installation of Virtual Pool 4. Remember to re-enable your anti-virus after installation. I get a file corrupt error when trying to execute the VP4 installation.
What should I do? First try turning off your anti-virus software. It may be detecting something it does not like and removing it from the.
0コメント