Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10960 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: System 3
• Released on: 2004-01-16
• Platform: PlayStation2

Manufacturer's Description
Casino Challenge simulates all the fun and thrills of a real live casino, allowing you to re-create all the thrills of the gaming action you find in real casinos from Las Vegas to Monte Carlo. Choose your game and hit the tables. All the great and classic casino games are included in this one exciting package, including blackjack, simulated live horse racing, roulette and even jackpot-style slot machines. Playing Casino Challenge gives you an insight into how to play casino games more effectively; you can learn the secrets and develop your own play strategies the more you play and practice.

Customer Reviews

Not indepth enough
This game offers you four different to lose your money. There's Horse Racing, Roulette, Black Jack and Fruit Machines and you get a choice of about eight characters to choose from to represent yourself. This type of thing is always going to be difficult to recreate on a console but I think it could have been done better. I know its a bargain price but at a third of full price it should offer a third of the size quality gaming, which in my opinion it doesn't. The horse racing for instance just doesn't give you the info required to pick a winner. There are only ever five horses to choose from and three of them are always the same odds which is usually only the case with bigger fields. Also, the game doesn't give you details like ground, weight, form, age and draw so its just like lucky guess time really. The shallow-ness opted for is inexcusable. Roulette, everything is as it should be with this but the major flaw is that there's no change in the way the wheel is spun, even slightly. I think it would have been better to have faint changes in the force of the spin and, before bets, to show the player which number the wheel was on before it was spun. Again success is pure chance. Black Jack I liked much better, its what you'd expect but curiously the higher the stake the worse your cards are. Only use a five pound chip and your success ratio will be something like seventy five percent, up it to say a twenty five pound chip and your wins drop to about forty percent.
Lastly there's the fruit machines - or one-armed bandit, hungry tiger, whatever you prefer - there's three machines to pick from and I found that only one of them delivers, the other two rob you blind. Using the good one however is a really good way to raise funds for the other games and can be quite entertaining in a mind numbing kinda way.
Overall this game does pass the time quite efficiently but isn't going to induce obsessive gaming sessions. Ultimately it could have been a better game if it was more indepth. A point in its favour though is the background noise, it really gives the feel of being in a casino.

Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing
This is one of those games that, when you put it on for the first time, you realise you have made a mistake buying it.
It has none of the atmosphere of a real casino and, given the capabilities of the PS 2, this disappoints big time.
The graphics are reminiscent of those games you would get in the early days of the PC -dull and lifeless.
Then there is the game play. The horse racing is worst of all. It is virtually impossible to follow the races even with a commentary.There is no form and the betting is no guide either. The actual races go by so fast. Blink and you miss them.
The slots are a total bore with no nudge facility.
The blackjack and roulette are like cheap cartoons with repetitive audio and no excitement whatsoever.The laying of chips on the table is also clumsy and sheer annoying
It is hard to see anyone actually liking this game and, overall, it is a bit of a turkey.
Not reccomended.

Not worth 1 star
Dont but this game, it is the worst gambling sim ever I have playedCeasers Palace on Gameboy and Hoyles casino on the PC buy these gamesinstead of this one. Graphics are possibly worth the star.
Betting isterrible due to the fact the system constricts your betting choice forexample say you only have £5 left you can not place five single bets buthave to put a single £5 bet on similarly if you have £127 left you will berestricted with 4 x £25 chips 2 x £10 chips and 1 x £5 and 2 x £1 chipsyou cannot convert a £25 chip into 25 x £1 chips and say you bet the two£1 chips you are then left to bet either one of your remaining chips.
Just plain Rubbish.