Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11610 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: ACTIVISION
• Released on: 2006-11-10
• Platform: Xbox 360

Manufacturer's Description
Building on last year's #1 poker title and the number one brand in poker, World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions takes a story-based approach as it puts players on the Circuit as a newly turned poker pro and under the wing of Chris Jesus Ferguson as his protégé. Players will test their skills against the world's best poker pros in the premier Circuit Events in hopes of qualifying for the winner-take-all, invitation-only Tournament of Champions at the Rio Resort in Las Vegas. Along the way, players will face-off against more top pros than ever before, including: Joseph Hachem, the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion; Jennifer Tilly, the Academy Award nominated actress and World Series of Poker bracelet holder, and many others in hopes of bringing home the Tournament of Champions trophy.

More Pros Than Ever Before Your poker skills will be put to the ultimate test by over 20 of the world's top poker champions the most extensive collection of pros in any video game. You'll be expected to go all-in against the likes of Scotty Nguyen, Scott Fischman, Men The Master Nguyen, Clonie Gowen, T.J. Cloutier, Eric Seidel, Antonio Esfandiari and many others. Plus all the action will be called by the hilariously creative commentator team of Norman Chad and Lon McEachern.

Learn from the Best This is not just a sequel to last year's #1 selling poker video game. This is a high-stakes game where you check your amateur status at the door, enter life as a poker pro, and head out on the Circuit. You're not alone, though as you'll be under the tutelage of Chris Jesus Ferguson, winner of five World Series of Poker bracelets. He'll teach you his most closely held tips, tricks, and strategies that have solidified him as one of the world's best poker players. But it's up to you to learn them and to put them into practice at one of the world's toughest poker stages The World Series of Poker's Tournament of Champions.

Unlockable Poker Tools With successful wins, you will unlock valuable poker tools that will enable you to become an even more skillful player. Unlockables include the ability to instantly check your odds of hitting various hands at the pre-flop, flop, turn and river, check the ranking of your hand, and even check valuable statistics on your opponents' style's of play such as the percentage of flops each has seen or and percentage of pre-flop raises.

DigiMask Technology Put yourself in the game with the proprietary DigiMask technology specifically licensed for this title. With this technology you can use your camera peripherals on either the Xbox 360 or PS2 platform to map your likeness onto your in-game character! It's time to show your poker face.

Expanded Online Multiplayer (Xbox 360 and PlayStation 2) Experience new online features such has hosting multi-table tournaments for the hottest poker action, reading tells from your online opponents via the camera to give yourself an advantage, or even have a little fun by testing your psychic skills in a side game of Blind Man's Bluff.

Customer Reviews

Better for free?
I started to get into poker firstly by trying the game online, after a while i started to play poker with a few friends which was great fun. I decided to get this game due to the fact i could get some achivements from playing poker. When i first got the game it was fun, being in a fully 3D enviroment made it a bit more interesting that a birds eye view from normal online poker. The achivements are easy to get as you just have to win tornies. But after a while the novelty wore off and what you are left with is a game you feel you have played 1000 times as the game play and avitar actions seem to be same.

The main problem is playing the AI is just not fun, you get no satisfaction from beating someone or winning a hand compared to a live game, this is where online comes in. It is much more fun playing this game online where you can give some banter over the head set and have a good time, but in the end you can get the same gameplay satisfaction form playing the free aplications on the internet as some have started to become 3D, and you can win money!

My final thought on the game is: You can get a decent poker game free online, this s only worth it if you want to practise the game of poker, get achivements or play xbox live, but it does get boresome after a while, unless your a poker maniac and if you are i am sure playing AI will bore you quikly.

Decent poker game
Fairly decent poker game - career element makes it slightly more interesting than standard poker game. Pity that animations when betting chips not actually linked to the amount that you bet (looks strange when you call $10 with a huge pile of chips - or when you call $1000s with a single chip). Also found the overhead view not particularly great - as can't really see the cards on table that well (there is a mini-display for your hand - but sometimes it's easy to confuse a diamond with a spade - at least I've made that mistake a few times). Still for the price I paid for it, it's a decent enough game... and has improved my poker game..