adamsappel Posted April 13, 2004 Report Share Posted April 13, 2004 Anyone heard of this one? It has some really good review scores at metacritic.com. The release date is supposedly April and so many reviews usually indicate a game coming out soon, but I can't find it available for pre-order anywhere. 5 gameplay modes, 10 tournament types, 11 gameplay variants--6/9/10 Ball, US and UK 8 Ball, 14 to 1 Continuous, 15 Ball, Bowlliards (pool + bowling), Killer (1 missed shot loses a life), Rotation (a points scoring game) and Switchball (sink the Switchball to swap colors)--19 different tables (11 regular and 8 trick shot), it even has some cool unlockable games like Darts, Skeeball, Coconut Shy (coconut bowling, with a cannon!) and the arcade classic, Dropzone. And it's only $30. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainl Posted April 13, 2004 Report Share Posted April 13, 2004 A Dropzone machine? That'll be Archer Maclean's new game, then (incidentally, a Dropzone machine only really exists in Archer's head; it was originally a C64 game. Actually, he's built an arcade version himself, but that is kind of cheating) Its got 8/10 in the new Edge today, and sounds great - the real improvement is using the analogue stick to controls spin and power, rather like EA's Tiger Woods golf game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustyjaw Posted April 13, 2004 Report Share Posted April 13, 2004 Ooh, this sounds great. I assume there will not be online play on any platform...but if the game is as good as it appears to be, I'll be getting it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamsappel Posted April 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2004 As far as I can tell, the game is for GameCube and PC only. Odd bedfellows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustyjaw Posted April 14, 2004 Report Share Posted April 14, 2004 Very odd. My poor GC has been neglected lately, this would be a nice solution to that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogbert Posted April 14, 2004 Report Share Posted April 14, 2004 It's for all three major consoles & PC, though I don't know about a US PS2 release, I imagine there will be one. The US Xbox release in June/July should have Live play, just like the European release does. Hearing it's a lot of fun on the PS2 with lots of things to unlock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamsappel Posted April 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2004 Wow, I just saw a commercial for this game! They said it was for GameCube and PC and was out April 2004. I am stoked, now where the hell is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan FB Posted April 14, 2004 Report Share Posted April 14, 2004 Looks like the GC version is at Fye (out tomorrow). The only place I could find the PS2 and PC versions was at GAME.net, both out now and both ?19.99 (modchip requirements apply as usual). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogbert Posted April 14, 2004 Report Share Posted April 14, 2004 Ryan, that's the UK release of course for the PS2 & PC, which you should have stressed. It's got a US release in a couple of months... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan FB Posted April 14, 2004 Report Share Posted April 14, 2004 The Fye one should be American, AFAIK.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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