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Mixed or average reviews- based on 9 Ratings

  • Summary: Features the "Black Widow" Jeanette Lee and an improved single-player mode.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 13
  2. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Without a doubt, the closest thing I've ever seen to a game that approximates a real honest-to-goodness game of pool...There is honestly nothing that you could want in a pool game that you won't find here -- well, with the exception of stale cigarette smoke and a fistfight or two.
  2. Yes, Virtual Pool 3 really does improve your game, I'm living proof! Blatant commercialism aside, Interplay brings back the best of billiards with VP3.
  3. 85
    The physics in this game are very impressive. It plays just like the real thing. Well... the real thing on a nice table. The games don't simulate all of the beer stains and little pieces of dirt that would be on regular bar pool tables.
  4. The funny thing is that the makers of this game actually guarantee to improve your real pool game. Speaking from experience, their claim turns out to be true, and spending a good amount of time on VP3 is analogous to attending a billiards clinic.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. AndrewM.
    10
    Agreed, the best pool sim I've ever played...some glitches but with patches runs beautifully
  2. JamesC.
    10
    I discovered VP3 in 2002... It's now 2005 and I still haven't found a pool game that comes close. Online play is great fun and it really does improve your real game. Expand
  3. NunoJ.
    10
    I started playing vp1 in 1996 aproximately... Graphics were bad ut still the best back then. when vp2 came out... Well... nothing could come close. Since then and playing vsnooker and vphall too, I finally fell into vp3's nest, never to leave again. Definetely not much room for improvement, amazing game. Expand
  4. SamF.
    10
    VP3 Is a must have for anyone interested in The game. I have tried other pool games such as REAL POOL But VP3 Beats them all. Even in 2006 The VP3 Game is hard to beat in terms of physics graphics gameplay and sound effects. Expand

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