User Rating: 8.8 | World Championship Snooker 2003 PS2
The best snooker game out there. The minute you start up this game you'll find your self checking out the new stuff. Let me help you out and tell you the things you can expect. More depth in the career mode, you get to choose which tornaments you want to take part in, but new accessories (Clothes, Cue's, etc) for your created player (yes it's a must to start with your created player when playing the career mode). One thing really boosts the audience of this game is the new coaching mode. Basically you start by choosing how should the table be set up. You can choose to start a normal snooker game. You are then immediately [told how you should start your break and where you should send the ball down to, if done wrong your not told to retry but your coach simply tells you which shot next would be a good move and how your to make it. i personally think this helps people understand the game and be able to play it better. And if you want a break from snooker you can play pool. (8-ball and 9-ball). There are a few mini-multiplayer games as well which make it fun for you to challange your friends. The graphics are good. You want find anything much to complain about here but there is surely room for improvement. The sound is where the game is weak. You get the same commentary for the few shots you make. Fortunaltly the Presentation makes up for that. The presentation is great. When you hit a great shot the shot is replayed and you get some comments on the shot by the commentaters. Make a decent shot and you'll see the the ball roll in with another camera angle. Somtimes the camera angle is mistakly focused on the cue ball making you miss the chance to see your shot go in, in the first shot. Pros: Best Snooker game around Great gameplay 70 of the top players are included in the game with photo realistic pic's Good career mode Very accurate AI (Players are like the real life ones) Cons: Lack of replay options Analog stick makes the game a living hell - (solve this by using direction pads)