With Pool Paradise you find yourself shipwrecked and penniless on an idyllic south pacific desert island. It just so happens that scattered around the beach are a variety of pool tables and subgames. There are also 30 opponents for you to challenge depending on how good you are and how much cash you’ve won to stake against better opponents. You can spend the cash on an assortment of game play aids or just daft things, all available in the beach shop. Also, various hidden areas and other features can be unlocked with your winnings. Besides a bunch of subgames, there’s a practice table out on the beach under the shade of swaying palm trees and next to the waves rolling up the beach.
When you feel you’re good enough you can enter the competition hut and start climbing the championship ladder.
There are 11 sets of pool rules including US and UK 8 Ball, 9 Ball, 10 Ball, 14:1 Rotation, Killer, and Bowliards.
Try to beat computer opponents, represented by highly detailed animated hands, that gesture their feelings as matches progress.
Or you can just have fun in the Crazy Table hut that’s full of exotic shaped tables with varying physical behaviour.
- Latest pool game physics and AI from the highly successful Archer MacLean series.
- Highest quality pool game in the world.
- 30 different computer controlled opponents, including a guest appearance by Jimmy White.
- Unique and highly detailed animated hands that express their feelings by their ‘gestures’!
- 11 different main rules types (including 6/8/9/10 ball, 14:1, Rotation, Killer and more).
- 5 modes of play; Practice, Championship, Tournament, Trickshots and various subgames.
- 10 different tournament ladders.
- 11 different table sizes and shapes both indoors and out on the beach.
- 8 camera modes from close-in chase-cam to static overhead.
- Play darts on the beach, Dropzone arcade game on the beach pontoon, blast coconuts with a loose cannon and throw pool balls up a Skeepool ramp round the back of the Championship Hut!
- Innovative analogue control for responsive cueing of pool shots and Darts throwing.
- Visit the Beach Shop to purchase game aids or unusual items to customise your play experience.
- Different baizes to customise your tables.
- Hidden features to be discovered.
- Rewards for high achievers.
- Its not all over if you lose everything – visit the Loan Shark to lend you more, but don’t visit him too often!
- Full day/night cycle - watch as the sun drops gently past the horizon and the moon comes out.
- Single load game – no more annoying waits between levels.
- Specially commissioned ambient music to accompany your pool paradise experience.
- So realistic you don’t need a real pool table any more, or to go to any paradise islands!
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Paradise Pool - Playstation 2 Review , May 5, 2004