Hoyle Table Games 2004
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend 18 Classic table games with a brand-new twist! With animated opponents who talk back and speak their minds - now it's more than just a game! Exciting and challenging board games that you'll want to play again and again.… Product details and pricing info |
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45 Customer Reviews Posted
- They don't even know the rules of chess
- First, their draw by three fold repetion is off.
second, their expert level probably isn`t even rated 1000
This is the worst excuse for a game I have ever seen. - 2004-02-15, 5 of 6 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Stay away from Hoyle Casino 2004!!!
- I really wish I had read the reviews here about Hoyle Casino 2004.
I bought the game this week, and did a full install on my laptop. I use my laptop for travel, so I expected to be able to play this game on the long flights.
Lo and behold I was shocked when I found out that I could not play the game without the CD inserted in the CD-Rom.
As a frequent traveller I find this unacceptable. I tend to lose CD's when I travel, or damage them due to the hectic packing and unpacking of my personal things. I tried to make a backup copy of the CD, and found out that I have to buy a program that will defeat the copyright protection like Alcohol 120% or CloneCD.
Even if I do spend the extra money and time to make a portable copy of the original so I don't lose it or break it, I will still kill the battery if I'm on a flight that lasts more than a couple of hours. The other solution is to make an image of the CD on my hard drive, and point the game to that. This would take up more precious space on my hard drive, when the game already took up 455 MB of space on my drive with the install already.
All in all I am very fed up with Hoyle and their disdain for paying customers. I don't want to be treated like a criminal, and I will boycott all future Hoyle products.
Stay away from this product!!!
- 2004-02-10, 15 of 18 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Hoyle 2004 Card Games OK
- Hoyle Card Games 20004 is OK and I got around its "Insert CD" while playing by using Alcohol 120% (version 1.4.8) putting it in a virtual drive. Now my only real beef with it, is you cant change the background when playing Crazy Eights. The Hoyle Bucks
(I used a cheat) and Facemaker is neat. If you dont like having
to put a CD in all the time, get Hoyle Card games 2003-its
basically the same game, just without the "insert CD". Odd though, I still play a 1996 Hoyle Cards version, which except for a minimum 4 players in every game, is still far superior
to the 2000 generations, IMO. - 2004-01-28, 9 of 9 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Copy Restrictions & Bugs (Hoyle Table Games 2004)
- I've owned several Hoyle games in the past and simply cannot recommend this one. The games themselves look interesting, but the intrusive copy restriction strongly weakens the value of this product. The fragile CD must be in the drive whenever the game is played (the copy restrictions also defeat virtual CD type programs).
While this may seem like a minor issue, it isn't for me. I was burned once by Sierra when they decided to drop replacement disks for another copy restricted game years ago. I refused to buy another product from them for several years, up until Hoyle Casino last year. Needless to say, I'm not exactly thrilled to see these types of copy restrictions again. Now that I've had a sample of the new copy restrictions, this alone will prevent me from buying any more Sierra games.
But that is not all that is wrong with Hoyle Table Games 2004. I was not able to get Maximum Pool to even run (WinXP). Sierra's solution (on their web site) is to disconnect any gamepad or joystick connected to the computer. Sadly, my computer throws a fit when the gamepad isn't attached (I often have to reinstall when I want to use it again).
Finally, like many Hoyle games, the AI seems heavily weighted in favor of the computer players. I've virtually given up on Hoyle Casino because of this (I almost always lose), and Hoyle Table Games may join Casino in the closet if I don't see better results. I like a challenge, but not to be defeated virtually every single time.
Anyway, that's my take on Hoyle Table Games 2004. Hopefully some of this will prove useful for you.
- 2004-01-24, 24 of 27 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- No more!
- I have purchased Hoyle card games in the past, but after this one, I done with them. I was unable to install this game properly using Windows XP. The suggestions the "techs" gave me were of no use and almost condensending.
- 2004-01-19, 28 of 34 people found this review helpful, Rated:
