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World Poker Tour
60
8.6 User Score:

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Based on 17 critic reviews
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Game Info

Publisher: 2K Games

Developer: Coresoft Games

Genre(s): Card Games

Players: 2

ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)

Release Date: October 18, 2005

Summary

Exclusive World Poker Tour Presentation - Including real WPT venues such as Commerce Casino and the Aviation Club, broadcast style overlays and commentary featuring Mike Sexton and Vince Van Patten. Compete against the virtual equivalents of Antonio "the Magician" Esfandiari, Erick Lindgren, Evelyn Ng, Lyle Berman, Michael "the Grinder" Mizrachi, and Phil "Unabomber" Laak, that play each situation just like their real-life counterparts. Go "all in" against players across the country with WPT's robust online functionality. Compete in tournaments, set up poker nights with your friends, manage buddy lists, and chat. Improve your poker playing skills by utilizing in-game tutorials and an in-depth stat tracking system that outlines your playing tendencies in numerous situations. Create a player, launch a career, and strive to become a WPT World Champion as you build your character's experience and boost your career earnings by competing in multiple game modes including Quick Play, Satellite Tour Play and WPT Season Play. Flaunt your success by using your earnings to deck out your player with hundreds of accessories. Create custom poker games by setting rules and limits with the poker game editor, or choose from 14 different community poker games including Texas Hold'em, Omaha, Pineapple, Double Flop Hold'em, Super Hold'em, Billabong, Tahoe and Shanghai. [2K Games]

What The Critics Said

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79

Next Level Gaming

"WSOP" has a better Career mode than this game, and faster gameplay. But WPT has a better online mode, and slightly better computer AI.

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78

TotalGames.net

Not as great as real poker, but certainly the next best thing. Now take those socks off, we got three kings.

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71

GameSpot

World Poker Tour is the best of the console poker bunch--though that isn't necessarily saying an awful lot.

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71

GameZone

Pretty competitive A.I., sometimes it comes across as a little bit uneven but it always seems to provide a decent challenge.

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70

IGN

World Poker Tour isn't a huge step above "World Championship Poker," but the career mode is at least more engaging and the AI is less aggravating. The multiplayer game also doesn't appear to be as broken, though it's still clunky.

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70

AceGamez

Despite the amount of complaints on the table, I still think World Poker Tour should be given a chance if you plan to take it online, because as far as I know, this is the only poker videogame that offers such an extensive online mode.

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65

TotalPlayStation

It's getting there, but even $20 sadly isn't enough to keep the game interesting once the license novelty wears off.

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63

Jolt Online Gaming UK

It’s still the most complete virtual poker experience you’re likely to come across, but it falls short of what it could have been. Cool ideas like the ability to change your player’s facial expression are all but pointless, and the online play doesn’t really seem to have taken off.

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60

Official U.S. Playstation Magazine

Buy WPT if you watch poker; buy "World Championship Poker 2" if you play poker. [Jan 2006, p.95]

60

RewiredMind

If you’ve seen the TV show, don’t play poker but fancy having a go yourself, then it’s a perfect initiation to the game – complete with some of the crazy calls and raises that go on from inexperienced and tilting players. For the hardcore poker fanatic though, there’s a massive, massive amount of room for improvement.

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60

Thunderbolt

The graphics are piss poor and the AI a joke most of the time, but generally this is the best of the bunch.

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50

Eurogamer

You can get a game of poker out of it, and you can persist with the desire to win to reach the next tournament, but the volume of frustrations along the way mean it cannot be hailed as the first great poker game. It's getting there, but not there yet.

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50

Boomtown

Maybe it's time for this addition to the videogame genre stable to start uttering that often resented yet ever-powerful f-word. That's "fold", by the way.

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50

Gaming Age

Large improvements need to be made to the AI to make the game challenging and enjoyable, and more time needs to be spent on improving the character models and announcing work.

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42

Game Revolution

Comparing World Poker Tour to "World Series of Poker" is like asking if you’d rather be short & fat or ugly & stupid. The generally competent A.I. and career mode make this one the better choice, but your best bet is to leave both flops on the table and find a new game altogether.

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40

PSM Magazine

The graphics are mostly serviceable, but the AI is all over the map. [Holiday 2005, 92]

40

Official Playstation 2 Magazine UK

Until there's an online PS2 poker game where you play with real money, games like this are an irrelevance in the face of the Internet gambling phenomenon. [Christmas 2005, p.108]

What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 8.6 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Greg R. gave it an8:
Its good but the graphics are bad and the other players names are really dum. Its a game were you can play alot of and not get bored.

Dvaudbvu R. gave it a10:
This game sucked i hated it it's slow takes forever to load and i get ace's 90% of the time it's too easy and a waste of money.

Mukso1495ad gave it a5:
The weakest of the three. Graphics are slightly better then WSOP and WCoP2. Gameplay is very repetitive. The AI checks too often. The pro playercharacters seem just as lost as you are trying to figure the other players. One can never catch a flop. The AI calls you with bad cards and almost always gets rewarded. If you are a pretty good poker play then I wouldn't reccomend it. This game will only fustrate you to when your huge pocket pairs get beat out by horrendous calls.

Swuth B. gave it a10:
Best Poker game ever ! [Ed: Ever?]

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