Pool Paradise is a great game. But with alot of bugs.
User Rating: 3 | Pool Paradise GC
Pool Paradise is one of the few billards games out there for the gamecube.Unfortunely though, the number of bugs I found in this game were so nerve wrecking that I began to regret my $19.99 brand new purchase of this game. At the beginning it looks like a great game and it is. Pool Paradise has many characters (most of whom you can figure out who they are modeled after) each with an increasing difficulty. I decided that since i had beaten the game once before, that this time I would go all the way and win $!,000,000. Through my greatness of this game I started to go up in ranks and as I did I noticed the game began to freeze. At first it was only every now and then. As I got more money the game began to freeze more often, which led me to believe that the developers were becoming lazy. Then when I amassed a value of over $800,000 the game became play proof. That is, no matter what I did (and I tried everything from turning the game off to trying all my options) the game would freeze. I found myself at the end of a great game only because the developers were so lazy that they never expected anyone to get more than $100,000. I must have encountered about a dozen or so different bugs. From Williard Geyser's name being !2kj to people appearing in a tournament more than one time even after being beaten! The game would freeze at almost anything and I felt it was time to leave this game be. Pool Paradise is also a very easy game because you can save in the middle of a game of pool. Then if you miss a shot just reload your file and try again. That's how I managed to get as much as I did. But please remember that I had beaten the game once before, which I did without saving in the middle of a game. I only used my little secret because I wanted to go through the game all the way. SOOOO bottom line is that Pool Paradise is an OK game if your out to kill some time, or pool balls. But don't expect it to be an experience. It's more like a letdown.
