Pool Paradise GameCube
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  • Summary: Penniless on an idyllic South Pacific desert island, you discover a variety of pool tables scattered around the beach and in various huts. On the beach, sheltered under the palm trees, is a practice table where you can enhance your skills and watch the waves rolling in. When you feel you are good enough, you can enter the Competition Hut and start climbing the championship ladder. There are 11 sets of pool rules and 30 different computer opponents for you to challenge. It's not all over if you lose everything; there's a loan shark to lend you more cash--or bite your head off.… Expand

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  1. Positive: 15 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 19
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  1. Cheat Code Central
    90
    There are other pool games out there but frankly there isn't one that is better - or as much fun.
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  2. Console Gameworld
    83
    Beyond the tropical setting and mini-games, you get a very solid digital replication of everyone’s favorite indoor activity, minus the booze and hustlers of course. A solid offering that will delight billiards fans for a few months.
  3. Edge Magazine
    80
    For console owners used to having to fiddle with power sliders in order to orchestrate their shots, it brings a nigh-on edible element of tangibility to the experience... An accomplished bundle. [May 2004, p.109]
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  4. Computer and Video Games
    70
    The novelty tables (L-shapes, triangular, etc.) aren't mental enough. The closest thing is the slippery ice hockey table. They built an amazing pool simulation, but surely the next step was to subvert that with crazy game stuff?

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  1. FrankC.
    9
    I think this game is brilliant and if you like pool it's a must buy.