Product Description

WSC Real 09: World Championship Snooker as you have never seen it before. Come with us into the Crucible and play the top stars...for real.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #821 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Blade Interactive
• Released on: 2009-04-03
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
WSC Real 08: World Championship Snooker as you have never seen it before. Come with us into the Crucible and play the top stars...for real

The product of a new technology called Infinite Worlds TM the game looks so good you will believe that you are facing down snooker's superstars.

The game has a new real mode that allows you the player to walk around the set and get down and view the shot from any angle before committing. A new control method allows you to take the shot more accurately than ever before. All the competitions all the top players. Play them for real

Customer Reviews

Same old game as 2007
Before I begin, I want readers to know there are some changes, but it the same game.

The control system is changed a bit, but you will get used to it. The main changes to this game are:

Good points:

1. Shanghai Masters added to Tournaments
2. Better Graphics
3. The save ability is a bit easier
4. Menu access is now decent
5. Some player stats are recorded eg: wins/losses, high breaks, against computer players.

Bad points:

1. Reduced all the Pool Tourneys to just one - UK Championships (Bad move)
2. Full of bugs, from Commentary to crowd noise looping again
3. since when is the Masters Wembley been a qualifying thing??
4. human players take 2 shots in a row from the break off?
5. Very poor 'Career Mode' not as great as you will find
6. First achievement won - it says "Frame Clearance" - when I didnt even clear the balls up! lol.
7. Heard that the online play is very bad

Under questioning Blade said:

"The control system underwent extensive play testing. We think you'll it better when you get used to them. In addition to media articles there are also sponsorship endoresments, cues, items for character create such as custom waistcoats, special locations, the golden cue and of course the trophies. Not to mention your nickname which changes depending on your style of play.

There is also a whole new graphics engine, stats system and coaching, tonnes of extra trick shots and challenges."

-- Personally they took an extra year to add little to this. Not good at all, but okayish.

Easily the best yet
This is by far the best version of the long running snooker series to date. Graphics are superb- so realistic it's almost like watching it on T.V. the difficulty of the game has been tweaked so while it's still very challenging, now you are given a chance when you play someone in the top 16 as they no longer pot everything in sight and they don't go for unrealistic potting attempts, prefering to play safe as they would in the real thing. The only reason why I can't give this five stars is because there is still no option to set up knockout tournaments online.We still have to make do with leaderboards. this could have and should have been addressed by now. Don't let this put you off though as other than that this is perfection.

In off the black
Why, oh why, oh why do programmers forget the most important part
of developing a game.....they have to play test it as well.
Now I don't know whether they are all used to the noisy
atmosphere in the pool halls in the U.S.A. but good old
snooker in the U.K. does like a quiet atmosphere for
the concentration of the players. Only once in 10 loadings
of the game did the crowd hush into an authentic quietness.
The rest of the time was as though it was the session interval
as all of them were making so much noise that it really
made me just eject the game from the console.
The game itself is really very good.
Oh.......apart from the fact that when
the ref declared a 'touching ball'
and I played away from it, he said 'FOUL AND A MISS'
Oh.......and the time that when
I broke off at the beginning
of the frame, the ball went around 3 cussions
and landed beautifully
on the rail deep in the baulk end, and...yes,
that voice again said 'FOUL AND A MISS'.
Commentary from such legends as Steve Davis
and the legendary John Virgo John Parrott,
but they are so good on the telly, why do they
read it like a script?
I just got to the point that I turned them off
in the options.
As snooker goes it really is good, but too many
foul strokes makes this fall short of the
last instalment. Maybe the next one will
tweak it back to the high standard that
this one should have been.
Slapped wrists you programmers and play testers.