They'll pick their spots just like everybody else, and create completely believable betting styles. Aggressive guys won't just go all-in on every hand. You'll encounter specifically aggressive, tight, and midrange players, though none play precisely to type. Opponents follow realistic betting patterns that fit certain personality types. You'll find quite intelligent players across the board in WCP 2.

But unlike a lot of other poker games, these other games of poker don't play completely broken because of that focus. But of course, like all modern poker games, Texas Hold 'em is the star of the show, and thus the game that has had the most focus put on it. There's a bunch of games to play in World Championship Poker 2, including a multitude of draw and stud variations. But by Jove, this one's actually pretty good! It's still got some presentational hurdles that you'll need to overcome to truly appreciate it, but in a year in which poker games became the most groanworthy trend in the industry, World Championship Poker 2 stands out as a diamond in the rough-if only comparatively.Īs you might expect, World Championship Poker 2 is yet another poker game for your consoles, PC and PSP. Despite a changing of the guard for the franchise to developer Point of View, the game bearing the Professor of Poker's name manages to improve in a number of key areas over its predecessor, not the least of which is in the realm of artificial intelligence.

World Championship Poker 2: Featuring Howard Lederer does just that. But even with all that said, that doesn't mean that a poker game can't still deliver the goods when done right-it's just not done very often. Marginal poker games are the new World War II first-person shooters, and you can't walk past a bargain bin in a game store without tripping over the spillage of middling card games for various platforms.

Isn't it a quaint thought to remember back to last year, when a game like World Championship Poker could provide a fairly unassuming but playable game of console poker, and could be good simply by virtue of the fact that there weren't 12 billion other poker games available on the market? Yeah, well, those days are over.

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