Vegas Pool Sharks 2.1.9

Play Pool with fairly-realistic ball physics

Vegas Pool Sharks has okay graphics, and presents as a mediocre challenge, but its ball physics are something that few others have managed to achieve within a Pool or Snooker game. If the game were simply a Pool game simulator, it may be one of the best of its era.

Play Pool against a computer opponent

Vegas Pool Sharks offers up a Pool table and the vision of an intimidating opponent looking over at you as you play. Using the Pool cue, which is visualized in front of your view, you have to hit the white ball and make sure you hit one of your balls so as to not lose points. The aim of the game is to sink all your balls before the opponent sinks all of his/her balls. The game itself is unfulfilling, and there are few options to toggle to remove the less desirable elements in the game.

An unfinished effort with problems

Vegas Pool Sharks is a sad example of how a Pool game almost became good. Pool/Snooker games are notoriously bad for a number of reasons, and yet Vegas Pool Sharks somehow managed to create compelling physics within the game to make it interesting for even non-Pool fans. Yet, it fails so hard because of the so-so graphics, the lag, and the unfair opponent scoring that the game quickly becomes irritating. Vegas Pool Sharks will keep you interested for a while, but its lack of development expertise and production quality is what will scare you off in the end.