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E3 06: Sega pockets snooker, pool games

By Guy Cocker, GameSpot UKPosted Apr 27, 2006 8:01 am PT

World Snooker Championship 2007 coming to PS3, Xbox 360, PS2 this fall; PSP sinks World Snooker Challenge 2007.

Sega today announced that World Snooker Championship 2007--called World Pool Championship 2007 in the US--is going next gen and will be released on both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game will also be available on the PlayStation 2, with all three versions scheduled for release in the UK and North America in autumn 2006.

The game is being developed by Blade Interactive and will boast 104 top snooker players and ten official tournaments, all modelled for the 2007 season. The game will also boast a pool mode with 9-ball and 8-ball competitions, along with 10 major pool tournaments and a trick-shot championship.

The addition of the pool feature has let Blade create a Golden Cue mode, which will mix different cue sports into one match. This lets gamers challenge others to a mix of pool and snooker over a number of frames. Further advancements have also been made in the create-a-player mode, which will let users customize their avatars even more.

A PlayStation Portable version of the game, titled World Snooker Challenge 2007--aka World Pool Challenge 2007 in North America--will also be available in the autumn.

22 Comments

  • Shingo

    Posted Apr 28, 2006 5:05 pm PT

    The only way to make the game interesting and marketable is to make the physics and trick shot contest amazing

  • khggame

    Posted Apr 28, 2006 11:51 am PT

    I have played many snooker games, and they were all boring!!

  • NotAFurry

    Posted Apr 28, 2006 10:17 am PT

    "why would ne1 in their right mind buy this game?"

    People who don't know that Virtual Pool 3 is the only real simulation.

  • Mother-Beef

    Posted Apr 28, 2006 6:34 am PT

    why would ne1 in their right mind buy this game?

  • NotAFurry

    Posted Apr 28, 2006 6:04 am PT

    Go Dott go!

  • chrisdojo

    Posted Apr 28, 2006 4:51 am PT

    dumb.

  • Lauryn2000

    Posted Apr 28, 2006 4:38 am PT

    Pool games or Billiard games never really do that well.Poker games are the hot commodity....

  • Sabtura

    Posted Apr 27, 2006 5:45 pm PT

    ummm....where are the rev (oh, I'm sorry--Wii) and DS versions??? Those systems have much better interfaces for games like this.

  • cube-gage

    Posted Apr 27, 2006 5:27 pm PT

    but pool and snooker are different things?

  • blackIceJoe

    Posted Apr 27, 2006 2:41 pm PT

    I like Pool and think this will be a neat game to play if you like the game.

  • gameloverx

    Posted Apr 27, 2006 2:36 pm PT

    I go with your bet gibb1

  • comthitnuong

    Posted Apr 27, 2006 1:34 pm PT

    great.....

  • spoernerd

    Posted Apr 27, 2006 11:01 am PT

    anyone who says snooker is not hard to do has obviously neeeeeeeever ever ever ever played it. this ain't your daddy's bar pool.

  • lageasy311

    Posted Apr 27, 2006 10:24 am PT

    amen dwmorrow, but some people DO like it. just look at those crazy peoplel in Japan. They have games like "lets wait in line" and "lets count sand" j/k but they have games where you serve fast food and stuff.......give massages....it's just plain weird.

  • gibb1

    Posted Apr 27, 2006 9:13 am PT

    might be cool this game, just chilling out with friends playing some snooker.

  • dwmorrow

    Posted Apr 27, 2006 9:09 am PT

    If I want to play ping pong or shoot pool, I'll actually go do it in Real Life™. The reason football, baseball, basketball and racing games are so popular is because these things aren't as easy to do, comparatively speaking. But ping pong? Pool? Where's my next-gen tiddlywinks sim? I play video games for escapism, not to do mundane crap.

  • britboy68

    Posted Apr 27, 2006 9:01 am PT

    When are they going to learn that no one wants a pool game. The game have not changed from the 80's versions as the physics will be the same. it's going to be as bad as ping pong from rockstar.

  • homsuplo75

    Posted Apr 27, 2006 8:41 am PT

    Might be fun to shoot some pool with people frm around the world. Although... seeing how the game isn't going to be too taxing on the processor I would hope that the graphics will be "close to lifelike"

  • matparkerbinbro

    Posted Apr 27, 2006 8:20 am PT

    who bleeping cares

  • korn18m

    Posted Apr 27, 2006 8:16 am PT

    Meh... not excited unless it has some amazing physics.

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