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Gameplay

Ngage tournament screenshotWSOP: Pro Challenge is a one-on-one TexasHold 'Em Poker simulator. It has three introductory matches which youcan complete to unlock a three round WSOP tournament, and winning thatunlocks a three round N-Gage tournament (despite the name it's alloffline, there's no multiplayer). You can also play against any of thecomputer players in one-off matches, which may help you get to knoweach one's mannerisms.

The controls are very simple, you use the direction pad to choose anoption and press its button to select it. The game can be played in anyscreen orientation, and works fine both horizontally and vertically.This should be suitable for any phone model with any button layout.

If you're unsure about Poker, or if you haven't played the Texas Hold'Em variety which is so popular nowadays, it's worth learning thebasics before playing this game. WSOPC'sin-game help is probably not going to be clear enough for new playersto learn from scratch, and you would be better off consulting one ofthe many "Teach Yourself Poker" sites on the web. Incidentally, theTexas Hold 'Em rules are the same ones used on American pokertelevision series such as The World Poker Tour and World Series OfPoker (indeed, WSOP is the licence used by this game). If you canfollow episodes of the WPT or WSOP series, then you will probably beable to play this game.

You can only play games against one opponent at a time, which isperhaps understandable on a phone game as three or more players maytake too long, but it would have been nice to have the option of moreplayers. You can leave a game at any point, but you will have to startit from scratch next time. If you leave a game in a tournament, you canre-enter the tournament in the round where you left. This is veryconvenient, but also a tempting way of cheating: as soon as you'relosing you can leave a game, then come back to it and the money islevel again. Tables can be set to no-limit, pot-limit or limit.

Ngage tournament opponent thinkingAll of the opponents are real lifeprofessional poker players: Johnny Chan, Annie Duke, Shannon Elizabeth,Chris Ferguson, Mike Mizrachi and Scotty Nguyen. They have apparentlybeen photographed for WSOPC,and provide various facial expressions during games which may or maynot give you a clue about their situation. The animation is rathercrude but you can definitely see the expressions, though there don'tseem to be very many of them.

In terms of gameplay, WSOPC'sbiggest flaw is probably the lack of any kind of challenge. Thisreviewer (who is not an experienced player at all) managed to get tothe semi-finals of the final N-Gage tournament after just a few hoursof playing, and none of the matches seemed more difficult than previousones. There didn't seem to be any learning curve at all, if you coulddefeat opponents early on you could defeat them much later in the gametoo. After you've gone through all the levels and tournaments, there'svery little incentive to continue except to blindly accumulate more andmore pretend money.

There are some specific achievement-based tasks you can aim for such aswinning with one hand (which you can do fairly easily with an "allin"), but this gets a bit dull and feels like working through achecklist rather than playing a game.

As if the game wasn't easy enough, there's an "odds" meter which tellsyou roughly how good your cards are in the current situation. Thismeter can't be switched off, and it's very difficult not to look at it.

One of the novelties of WSOPCis the "tilt" meter, which fills up as your opponent suffers a defeatof some kind. When it is full, it starts blinking and the opponent issupposed to start making stupid mistakes, but this reviewer didn'tnotice any difference. The same applies to the "tells", or expressionson your opponent's face, which are supposed to be the key to winning agame of poker. In WSOPC they aren't really required to win at all, you can completely ignore them.



Shannon ElizabethAnnie Duke

Scotty NguyenMike Mizrachi

Some of your opponents. Yes, they do look like heads stuck on otherpeople's bodies, and it gets even worse when they're animated.


Graphics & Sound

WSOPC features the kind of graphics you'd see on a Java game, and indeed this is apparently a slightly upgraded port of a Java game.

On the positive side, all of the graphics are perfectly functional: youcan see all the cards, all the necessary information is visible, andnothing gets in the way of the gameplay. A particularly nice touch isthe way the game waits to reveal the final card, which adds somemuch-needed tension.

Another good graphical feature is the use of signature chips, which areeffectively trophies that you receive for certain achievements. Theseall have their own unique graphics, and it's more fun to collect thesethan to just rack up numerical N-Gage points. Nokia might want to addsomething like this to their own achievements system, which is how thefirst gen N-Gage's old trophy system used to work.

On the negative side, the animation of the opponents is verydisappointing. Perhaps because they'd paid for the rights to thesefamous players' faces, the developers felt like they had to includephotos of them, but the result of this is a rather poor-looking mess.To be fair, you can clearly see all of the players' expressions if youwant to look for "tells" so that element of gameplay is preserved, butit's all very crudely done. There's absolutely no style here.

Sound is virtually non-existent, with just the occasional snatch ofguitar music and some brief spot effects during certain game events.

Signature Chip win with one handSignature Chip for winning with All In


N-Gage Arena

The only online feature in the game is a single worldwide leaderboard,which the average player is never ever going to appear on. There are nosubdivisions or categories, and the player isn't even told theirranking unless they're in the top twenty.


Overall

At ten euros WSOPCis not the cheapest game on the N-Gage platform. For the same money orless you could buy any other N-Gage title including the excellentHooked On:COTD. However, WSOPC is the only card game on the platform so far, and that may tempt some people to try it.

Its main plus point is that it is easy to get started and the in-gameinterface is pretty streamlined. If you want poker on N-Gage, this maybe good enough for you.

The game's negative points are a lack of difficulty even for beginnerslike this reviewer, a lack of options in terms of rules and playernumbers, and a lack of things to do once you've played through all theset challenges. On top of all that, there's no multiplayer of any kind:no online, no Bluetooth, not even any "pass around" option. As for theonline rankings, they're only going to be of interest to the top twentyobsessives who have played this game to death and beyond.

World Series Of Poker: Pro Challenge feels like a cheap licence cash-ingame with very little depth, low quality production values, and veryfew options. Some kind of multiplayer mode might well have saved it,but there isn't one.

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