Virtual Pool 3 (PC)

This is one of my favourite games for the PC. Whether you've got 5 minutes or 5 hours to spare this game is perfect. I'll tell a little about what makes this game so good. --> Graphics With a reasonable computer you will be able to run this game with full quality graphics. The tables and balls alike have outstanding reality and move in real time with real life physics. There are 8 different locations with 3D environment backgrounds, 4 of which must be unlocked in the Career Mode before they can be played in Quick Play mode. To enhance the reality of the play stunning sound effects can be heard in the background. I know on a number of ...  Read the complete review

The third in a line of very succesful pool simulators, and without sounding like I made the game, by far and away the best. No other game has captured the realism and ball motion like Virtual Pool. Well, the second game was a huge improvement on the original, and despite not really boosting the graphics up, the third game has added a hell of a lot more features, and game modes. Probably the best of these new game modes is the career option. With this you start off with a small amount of money, and start playing in a dingy garage. Any game mode can be used in career, so even those into 3-ball ?? can become a rich champion. Basically, every person ...  Read the complete review

Simulating sports has been a staple diet of PC games fodder since anyone can remember. If you can recall wonderful hours of childhood spent making Mr Daley Thompson jump seven centimetres further, or any game that required waggling your joystick (easy tiger!) from side to side until it broke, just to break the world 100m record, well, weren't we all childish. Surely we've all grown up since then. Right. Sure. That's REALLY likely... But if you would like to find a computer game for adults that's fiendishly addictive but also has a certain 'je ne sais quoi', a certain 'style' and 'chic' that your girlfriend ...  Read the complete review

Virtual Pool 3 is a brilliantly addictive and emminently playable game by Celeris. So what exactly makes it addictive, well here is an example: I started playing the excellent multiplayer mode this is what happened: 11.00pm - 1 last game of 9-ball 11.10pm - just one more this continued until around 12.45am where I was forced to quit by two factors. My eyes were becoming increasingly heavy :-) and thus were stopping ol Eagle Eye (me) from doing as well as I should have been doing, secondly I had work in the morning. The multiplayer is brilliant I never noticed any lag at all, I took the shot, the shot was ...  Read the complete review