Product Description

Experience the thrill of competing at the Crucible in the only officially licensed game of World Snooker. Featuring 104 snooker players including greats of the game such as Ronnie O`Sullivan, Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry, all of the official tournaments and venues and commentary from John Parrott, Steve Davis and John Virgo.

• Features many of the players from the Snooker and Pool circuits, the PS3 version contains 32 out of 96 licensed snooker players and 14 out of 64 Pool players, including Shaun Murphy, Ronnie O`Sullivan, Earl Strickland and Efren Reyes.
• Improved 3D front-end, providing an atmospheric ante-room.
• Incorporates 5 different championship modes: Snooker, Pool (9/8 Ball), Hybrid (customised Snooker/Pool tours), Golden Cue (challenging former champions in Snooker and Pool) and TrickShot.
• New gameplay mechanics, including a Cueball Target Indicator (where your Cueball will stop on the table, according to power, bounce and spin).
• Next-generation graphics, including a revamped Character Creation system with more realistic features.
• Extra games modes for friendly play: Versus and QuickPlay, with existing matches plus Billiards and Bar Billiards.
• Coaching for all game modes: Snooker, 8 Ball Pool, 9 Ball Pool, Free Snooker and Free Pool, with access to official Rules for all modes.
• Online gameplay with various radand unranked games: Snooker, 9 Ball Pool, 8 Ball Pool, 3 Ball Pool, Rotation, Bank and Billiards.
• Familiar commentary from John Parrot, John Virgo and Steve Davis, with new voices for the Pool circuit.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3782 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Sega
• Released on: 2007-03-23
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3

Amazon.co.uk Review
Although it’s hard to make snooker seem terribly sexy (Sega try their best by making everyone on the box cover scowl like they’re in a Steven Segal movie) the fact is it has an enormous fan base and it actually works really well as a video game. As with any yearly update this isn’t massively different to the last game in the series: it features plenty of celebrity snooker players, (rubbish) commentary from John Parrot and John Virgo, plenty of game modes and online play on the Xbox. Although there is a tutorial mode, the game is intuitive enough for you to pick and play from the off, especially if you start the career mode and begin to slowly work your way up the ranks with your own custom character.

The biggest challenge in the game though is having the will power to turn off all the control assists which initially help to make the game so easy to play. A new cue ball position zone marker makes things a lot easier than previous games, as does helpful aiming arrows indicating when and how hard you should hit a ball. Lining up shots still isn’t quite as easy as it should be though and altering the strength of the shot on the right analogue stick also feels less accurate than it should do. There are a few bugs and glitches too, particularly around foul balls. Graphically the game won’t win any awards, with poor animation and zombie like players, but that’s really not what the game is about. Until next year at least this is the best, and only, next gen snooker game around.
HARRISON DENT

Manufacturer's Description
Experience the thrill of competing at the Crucible in the only officially licensed game of World Snooker. Featuring 104 snooker players including greats of the game such as Ronnie O'Sullivan, Steve Davis, Stephen Hendry, all of the official tournaments and venues and commentary from John Parrott, Steve Davis and John Virgo.

Customer Reviews

Disappointing and flawed
Having utterly enjoyed World Championship Snooker 2005 on the PS2 I got the 2007 version for my XBOX360 and enjoyed it a little less! Having now replaced my XBOX with the PS3 I was looking forward again to an enjoyable experience, somewhat foolishly ignoring some of the online reviews.

What can I say other than very disappointing! Between frequent poor frame rates and inconsistencies in aiming between the 'behind the cue' and 'overhead' views, this game is frustratingly poor for a next gen console.

If you have a PS3 and like WCS, wait until they improve it with patches (if that's possible with a console) or bring out a 2008 version. [...]

Good game with sub standard graphics.
Ok, you may have read the other reviews & decided to give this game a miss. But i honestly have to disagree with most of the reviews left here. THIS IS A GOOD GAME. Ok, it may not have lived up to my (or others) expectations but snooker as a game really translates well to console. And how many great ps3 games are on the shelf in HMV or wherever you shop ? -Not many considering it's been here now 5 months & longer stateside. The concept here is to give an honest review. I will start by saying tho that the computer opponent gets progressively hard very quickly ! But the idea of the game is to build up your players abilities by collecting points after every match won. This can take sometime however. You will not be making 50+ breaks regulary until your player has lengthy green bars accumulated from winning those matches. The graphics are also not up to ps3 standard & to be honest not a million miles past ps2. The audience tho cleverly applauds you on a GOOD safety shot & not just any safety shot ! I would recommend that you buy this second hand as you may feel robbed of paying £40. But am i the ONLY person who likes WCS 2007 ? This is a GREAT game if, like me (30+) you've passed the shoot em ups & tomb raiders etc.. & want to sit with a beer & relax in front of your ps3 without sirens or WWIII in your front room.

Not up to the quality it should be.
An earlier version of this game by Codemasters was one of my favourite games on PS2. I thought that the improvements would be superb for this new PS3 version....whilst it has improved in lots of ways there is one aspect that drives me crazy! The action of the balls is so jerky - I'm not being picky, the action is terrible - you would think the game was playing on a speccy. This must be addressed as it totally ruins the game for me. Not sure if things like this can be fixed in an update? If so I hope they're working overtime on it.

My advice, whatever you do don't pay the full price for this game. Buy it second hand or wait for a PS3 platinum range to appear.