Your Championship Awaits
More poker! Woo hoo!
Published: November 2, 2005
"The first World Championship Poker was the definitive poker experience on the console, reaching Greatest Hits status on PlayStation 2," claims Crave Entertainment President and COO Rob Dyer. "World Championship Poker 2 blows the original game out of the water. Exclusive pros such as Howard Lederer and Greg Raymer and an extremely compelling one player career mode make this game the best $20 a beginning or experienced poker player can spend."
Blows. It. Out. Of. The. Water.
Lofty words, Rob, but hey, nobody would want a game where the publisher was like, "oh, man, this game... ehhh, it's okay, if you like that sort of thing..." Luckily, it's not just Rob that's ready to toot his own horn, it happens that the star of the game is pretty happy with the job Point of View did with his game. Dig it:
"Crave did a great job creating a compelling one player career mode in World Championship Poker 2 that really lets players experience the challenge of rising up through the ranks as a professional poker player," commented Howard Lederer, the game's namesake and holder of 13 major poker titles. "You'll feel the joy of winning a tournament and having cash to spend on expensive stuff, and the pain of having to hock that stuff when you hit a losing streak."
We've already posted 50 quadrillion screens of the game and its psp counterpart, but if you're still foggy on the game and its 14 different types of poker, the main draw is not only building up your rep on the table, but building up your skills RPG-style and decking out your own pad with swanky goodies (that you can sell for cash when you go belly-up).
EyeToy support lets you pit your face against Howard Ledrerer, Amir Vahidi, Annie Duke, Clonie Gowen, Greg Raymer, Matt Savage, Robert Williamson, and Paul Darden, and TV-like presentation (including the all-important bumper cam and first-person mode to read tells) all seem to add up to to far more presentation-wise than most other poker games.
Interested yet? Good, the PS2 version has shipped today, and the PSP version will hit next month.
Blows. It. Out. Of. The. Water.
Lofty words, Rob, but hey, nobody would want a game where the publisher was like, "oh, man, this game... ehhh, it's okay, if you like that sort of thing..." Luckily, it's not just Rob that's ready to toot his own horn, it happens that the star of the game is pretty happy with the job Point of View did with his game. Dig it:
"Crave did a great job creating a compelling one player career mode in World Championship Poker 2 that really lets players experience the challenge of rising up through the ranks as a professional poker player," commented Howard Lederer, the game's namesake and holder of 13 major poker titles. "You'll feel the joy of winning a tournament and having cash to spend on expensive stuff, and the pain of having to hock that stuff when you hit a losing streak."
We've already posted 50 quadrillion screens of the game and its psp counterpart, but if you're still foggy on the game and its 14 different types of poker, the main draw is not only building up your rep on the table, but building up your skills RPG-style and decking out your own pad with swanky goodies (that you can sell for cash when you go belly-up).
EyeToy support lets you pit your face against Howard Ledrerer, Amir Vahidi, Annie Duke, Clonie Gowen, Greg Raymer, Matt Savage, Robert Williamson, and Paul Darden, and TV-like presentation (including the all-important bumper cam and first-person mode to read tells) all seem to add up to to far more presentation-wise than most other poker games.
Interested yet? Good, the PS2 version has shipped today, and the PSP version will hit next month.
