Texas Holdem Poker Xbox 360
| System: X360 - XBL | Review Rating Legend | |
| Dev: Tiki | 1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid | 4.0 - 4.4 = Great |
| Pub: Microsoft | 2.0 - 2.4 = Poor | 4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy |
| Release: Aug 2006 | 2.5 - 2.9 = Average | 5.0 = The Best |
| Players: 1 - 8 | 3.0 - 3.4 = Fair | |
| Review by Patrick | 3.5 - 3.9 = Good | |
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By Patrick Evans
Texas Hold’em is the purest form of poker to some, and to others it’s the only game they will play. Dozens of websites attract online Hold’em players with nothing but time to kill, and Microsoft wanted to move in on that market. The Tiki Games developed Texas Hold’em strips the game down to its basics and provides players the opportunity to lose the time without losing their shirt.
Texas Hold 'Em for Xbox 360 game reviews & Metacritic score: Xbox Live Arcade Whether you're a beginner or a pro, enjoy the thrill of the perfect hand or the perfect bluff. Test your skills in. Texas Hold 'Em (Xbox 360) overview and full product specs on CNET.
Available for free until Friday morning at 1am Pacific, Texas Hold’em offers both standard and tournament games for players to choose from. Right out of the gate, there were chumps that decided they would take a stab at pots early and got their rear ends handed to them, but this is typical of regular online games as well. The regular tables saw idiots and sharks alike all scratching to win as many hands as possible.
A permanent bankroll is one of Texas Hold’ems greatest draws on Xbox Live. Most tables or tournaments have buy-ins, which is deducted from your overall bankroll when you go into the game. When you leave the table your money goes back into the bankroll, either a little fatter or a little leaner. As you continue to climb up in the money, bigger and bigger tables, and payoffs, are available to you, just like in any other online poker game.
The interface in-game is as simple as it gets. When action comes to you, call/check, fold, and bet are all on face buttons. If you want to bet, you can either use the outrageously over-sensitive control stick/d-pad or you can use the shoulder buttons, which increase the bet amount in increments according to the blinds. It would have been nice to see betting handled a little more carefully, but using the shoulder buttons gets the job done.
Xbox Live’s poker has one major advantage over many, if not all, online poker websites out there. Chatting with the people at your table makes the game much more fun and erases part of the anonymity associated with online poker. Instead of simply looking onto a computer screen and scratching yourself while you wait for your turn, you can now talk to the others in your game while scratching yourself and waiting for your turn.
Bankrolls and chat-support are great, but Texas Hold’em does have a few issues that make finding a suitable table difficult. When searching for a table with the Quick Match option, there will be times that the table that comes up is outside your price range. Using the custom match option solves this without a problem, but it would be nice to see the game use some intuition in selecting a table for you. There were also some glitches in the network with buying in or cashing out. I jumped onto a table with a 20,000 dollar buy-in when I only had 18,000. Before I even got to play a hand, I was tossed out of the game, but I received more than 40,000 dollars from the table inexplicably. In the leaderboard, I’m still ranked as if I had 18,000, but my dollar value is astronomical. For my sake, I hope they don’t fix that glitch, but it’s troubling nonetheless.
Microsoft has said that it plans on utilizing the upcoming camera accessory in Texas Hold’em to allow players to see each other while playing. If so, it will mean two things for online poker. One, people will start having to watch what they do to keep their cards hidden, and I will have to start playing the game with pants on. When the camera support comes out, we at CCC will revisit this game and update our review, but for now, Texas Hold’em is the most addictive Xbox Live Arcade game since Uno. Even if you can’t get it while it’s free, this game is easily worth the 800 points.
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Original music and sound effects High definition graphics Leaderboards and achievementsBy Patrick EvansTexas Holdem Poker Xbox 360 Kinect
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| Texas Hold 'em | |
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| Developer(s) | TikGames |
| Publisher(s) | Microsoft Game Studios |
| Platform(s) | Xbox 360 (XBLA) |
| Release | August 23, 2006 |
| Genre(s) | Card game |
| Mode(s) | Single player, Multiplayer (2-8) |
Texas Hold 'em is an Xbox Live Arcade version of the popular poker variant of the same name developed by TikGames. It was released on August 23, 2006 and was the first XBLA game to be offered as a free download (for a limited time).[1] After 48 hours, it was no longer a free download. It was also made available on the Xbox Live Arcade Unplugged Vol. 1 disc, which is available for retail purchase as well as bundled with Xbox 360 Premium consoles and Zune 3.0 firmware.
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The game features three single player modes, including standard play, tournament play, and scenarios. It also supports up to eight players on Xbox Live, and now supports the Xbox Live Vision camera.
In November 2006, all players' bankrolls and the game's leaderboards were reset, in order to 'eliminate inflated scores' that some players achieved as a result of exploits.[2]
References[edit]
- ^'Texas Hold 'em Review (Xbox 360)'. Teamxbox. Retrieved 2006-09-21.
- ^'Texas Hold 'em patched', Eurogamer.net, by Tom Branwell, November 29, 2006; web page retrieved February 18, 2010.