World Championship Poker 2: Featuring Howard Lederer Image
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  • Summary: WCP 2 features Howard Lederer, Greg Raymer, Clonie Gowen, Amir Vahidi, Paul Darden, Robert Williamson III, Matt Savage, and Annie Duke. World Championship Poker 2 features a much more detailed one player game, where you now have to work your way up the ranks, starting in your mom's basement. Once you start winning and accumulating money, you can spend your winnings on increasingly better pads, and furnishings. Hit a losing streak, and you may have to hock your stuff to stay in the game. 14 types of poker are featured, including Texas Hold'em, Five Card Draw, Seven Card Stud and Pineapple. [Crave] Expand
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  1. Positive: 2 out of 8
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  1. The long-time problems that do and will always hold gambling videogames down still exist here, mainly the fact that human emotion and reaction cannot be duplicated and gambling with fake money isn’t always satisfying when you can pull a real game together with your friends, but with all elements considered there simply isn’t a better videogame simulation of the popular card game to be found.
  2. Despite the good attempt, WCP2 is nothing compared to real-life poker.
  3. Despite the lackluster presentation, the core card gameplay in the World Championship Poker 2 is solid. Fans of poker should definitely find the game both challenging and entertaining.
  4. Seeing poker-star Howard Lederer on the box piqued our interest, but once you get in the game, WCP2 hits you with weak voice acting, substandard graphics, and wonky animation. [Apr 2006, p.100]

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  1. NathanM.
    5
    I also like this game, but when you get really far in a touranment it freezes. I've played in the same touranment twice now because it freezes.
  2. JudyJ.
    4
    I really like the game, but it freezes and crashes at the worst times. Since you can't save more than one instance of a game you end up wasting tons of time doing the samething over and over again because the thing crashed - the alternative is to overwrite when it might be to your disadvantage. Very annoying. Expand