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User Rating: 6.5 | Texas Hold 'Em X360
By alexisonfire828 | Review Date:
It was only a matter of time before Texas Hold'em came to the 360 and that time is now. Here we have Texas Hold'em poker possibly the most popular card game around, as of lately, damn you World Poker Championship. Anyway this game is exactly what you'd expect from an Xbox Live Arcade game. This game is rather fun and if you're lucky enough you would've caught this before the free offer expires it's a good investment, otherwise it's not worth it, seeing that there are plenty of other online poker programs for the PC. This game for the XBL Arcade is fun, straight-forward and easy to play. The interface is simple and easy to navigate, there isn't much offering as to options and customization, but it's expected for an XBL Arcade game. There's only 1 other offering for a background, and there's a choice of turning the sound and music either higher or lower and on or off. Like I said nothing big. Along with these options there's a how to play option and a My Stats option that lets you view your bankroll for your single player and multiplayer careers (more on that coming up), the types of hands you've gotten and how many times youve gotten them.

Single player comes with 3 different types of games. There's Single player mode, your own career, there's Tournament mode where you enter tournaments and play through them trying to come in 1st and finally there's a scenario mode where you're faced with different challenges from random starting chips to aggressive or passive AI opponents. As your progress through the single player mode whether or not you do well, it will show in your bankroll. Each person starts off with $2,000 and depending on how good of a gambler you are, your bankroll will go up if you win and say enough is enough and cash out or go it will go down if you keep losing and buy more chips. Either way your bankroll will show it. The same sort of idea is used for online play your started with some cash and pending on how good you are your cash will go up or down.

There isn't much to say about multiplayer, if you've played or seen an online poker game on the PC it's the same damn thing. I have yet to experience any lag, but have come across sore losers who would leave the table or turn off the console when they lost a big hand.

The achievements are by far the easiest to get in this game, there's no real challenge for any of them, just play smart and they're as good as yours. The achievements can be viewed in the cheats section, but you're looking at things like Get every possible hand in poker, play 1,000 hands and earn $1,000,000 in your bankroll. Nothing that can't be done over time.

Overall, this game is fun and I find addictive just cause it's poker. Everything is presented to you neatly and presented quite nice in this little package. This game is rather lackluster and nothing on here just has to be seen, if you know what I mean. For the price of free you can't complain, but if you can't get it for free then I personally wouldn't bother, just download pokerstars.net or something it's free and online. That about raps it up for this review!

Cheers everybody.

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