Brunswick Billiards Challenge is a good 9-ball sim with a solid 3D engine behind it. The game lets you play against a human or CPU opponent, using one of six international characters. The addition of the third dimension lets you view the table from any angle you choose and adjust your English in nuanced ways. This is a solid game of pool designed with the simulation crowd in mind.
V Cast subscribers will initially be drawn to Brunswick Billiards for its graphics, which are very good. The balls aren't perfectly rounded, but that also could be said, until relatively recently, of the balls in 3D pool games on the PC. The game's lone pool table is well rendered and is situated in a small pool hall. The surrounding tables seem to disappear (in our LG VX 8000 version) when you start a game, but that hardly matters. What's more important is that the balls on your table move in realistic ways, at the appropriate speeds. Brunswick Billiards does a great job with the physics--the core of any pool game.
In tournament mode, you'll play against three opponents, and you must not lose a game, lest you be eliminated. Versus mode is identical, although you'll face only a single opponent, which is either controlled by the computer or a rival mobile gamer via pass-and-play. In either game type, you'll have to do more shot tweaking than in most arcade-style pool games. Those games typically let you adjust only the cue point and shot power, but Brunswick Billiards also asks you to select your cue angle. This might confuse novices, but it ultimately affords you more control, which is essential in a realistic, three-dimensional pool game. 
Somewhere along the line, Bandai forgot to put sound in this game. That's half the V Cast multimedia package, really, and it's too bad they couldn't fit some swinging jazz numbers, or even the click of balls colliding, into this pool hall.
Brunswick Billiards lacks the story mode that its inclusion of playable characters would seem to necessitate, but it brings a solid game of 9-ball to the table. The game has a decent 3D engine that's happy to play dozens of instant replays, and it has the solid physics modeling to back it up. Those looking for a detailed, 3D pool simulation won't go wrong by downloading Brunswick Billiards.
