world championship snooker 2004 pc download

Cough, it is nearly enough to drive you insane, you could really get a sponsor for this game from one of the more noted cough medicines. As you play you will literally be surrounded not by constant cheers, not by constant snooker sounds, but instead by the crowd coughing and their mobile phones ringing prompting a comment from John Virgo. The snooker sounds are a bit more encouraging now that the game is in 5.1 surround although this actually causes a problem in the title. Although some changes have been made to the learning curve of this game, you will still get to a point when frustration overwhelms all your senses which requires at least 5 minutes of beating up your most loathed cushion.Ĭommentary is virtually identical to the previous title with some annoying habits. Unfortunately this has not improved very much from the previous title. Find yourself setting up the perfect snooker only to find the opponent aiming, striking and potting the required ball eventually clearing the table and leaving you with a very empty feeling inside. A curse of many sport titles, especially in the past, is the darned easy start you find as you progress the difficulty exploding into the unreal. Something that really got me biting at the wire of my controller was the extremely hard learning curve. Overall the presentation is about the same with the needed work aimed at the snooker table area and, let’s face it, this is where most of your attention will be. There’s still the Trickshot mode with John Virgo to master and unlock, the bonus games like Against the Clock and Countdown where you get a set time per shot to play and then the classic games of the past to compete in where you have to fulfil tasks like win the final frame of the Dennis Taylor versus Steve Davis Final in 1985.Just like before, the crowd consists of actual polygon characters and the overall character detail has been increased, but only by a smidgen.

Of course if you’ve completed The LG tour (although you don’t have to) you can follow in the footsteps of the likes of Steve Davis and command a position in the world of pool and the game supports both eight-ball and nine-ball versions complete with pub scenery in which to play it.įor the most part you would presume that this would surely be all the game would be willing to offer, however your presumption would be wrong for World Championship Snooker 2004 isn’t finished with you yet.

Once you think you’ve mastered the controls you can opt to pit your wits against one of the 30+ computer controlled players or your mates in the LG tour where you get to play in championship including The LG Cup, British Open, UK Championships, European Open, Welsh Open, Irish Masters, Player's Championship, and The Masters among others. The coaching voiced by John Virgo is very comprehensive and sets you targets to reach to improve your game, what sets this apart from your average tutorial is that the coaching adapts to your game play and every shot you make, miss the ball and rather than simply telling you so and then resetting itself, it tells you’ve failed that task and then sets you up for another depending on where the cue balls ended up. Straight Snooker where you can play a match, set up your own custom tournament or opt in for some coaching. The game is broken down into different areas: If that wasn’t enough to get snooker gamers excited you can also implement different views- top down and down the cue- set guides so you can see whether your chosen pot is likely to be on target and where the cue ball is going to head off to, or chose to skip viewing the opponents play- something which is advisable as they normally take their time.Īway from the game play and Codemasters, the game’s publishers, has made sure there is plenty of choice to keep you going till the next version next year.

World championship snooker 2004 pc download