PDC World Championship Darts 2009 is a sports video game, published by Oxygen

Oxygen Games

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 and developed and designed by Rebellion Developments

Rebellion Developments

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. It was released for the Nintendo DS

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 and Wii

Wii

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 on May 29, 2009. The game features eighteen professionals from the Professional Darts Corporation. The game includes a Create-A-Player mode, which for the first time, players can create a female dart player to use in both Career Mode and Exhibition Mode. There is also a practice mode. It is a direct sequel to the previous year's game, PDC World Championship Darts 2008

PDC World Championship Darts 2008

PDC World Championship Darts 2008 is a sports video game, published by Oxygen Interactive and developed and designed by Mere Mortals. It was released for the PlayStation 2, PC, and has seen releases for the Wii, Nintendo DS, Xbox 360 and the PlayStation Portable. The game features sixteen...

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Rules

See also Playing darts and Scoring for full rules.

Professionals

Eighteen professionals were included the game. This was two more than the previous game. The in-game players are below:

• Phil Taylor
• Mark Dudbridge
  Mark Dudbridge
  Mark Daniel Dudbridge is an English professional darts player.-Darts career:He started playing in his very early teens, citing Dennis Priestley as one of his heroes...
  
  
• Raymond van Barneveld
  Raymond van Barneveld
  Raymond van Barneveld , nickname Barney is a professional darts player. He is a five time World Darts Champion, and two time UK Open Champion. From January to June 2008, he was the PDC world number one ranked player...
  
  
• Roland Scholten
  Roland Scholten
  Roland Scholten is a Dutch professional darts player who plays for the Professional Darts Corporation and formerly for the British Darts Organisation. He is nicknamed Tripod or The Flying Dutchman and uses Hey Ya by Outkast as his walk-on. He is currently ranked 45th in the PDC...
  
  
• Peter Manley
  Peter Manley
  Peter David Manley is an English professional darts player who plays in the Professional Darts Corporation. He is nicknamed One Dart as he is known for hitting doubles with his first dart...
  
  
• Ronnie Baxter
  Ronnie Baxter
  Ronnie Baxter is an English darts player. He uses the nickname The Rocket for his matches. Baxter is known for his fast, robotic throwing action...
  
  
• Wayne Mardle
  Wayne Mardle
  Wayne Mardle is a darts player for the Professional Darts Corporation, and former player in the BDO. He now lives in Romford...
  
  
• Terry Jenkins
  Terry Jenkins
  Terry Jenkins is an English professional darts player who is nicknamed The Bull, having previously used the nickname "Tucker" for his matches...
  
  
• Dennis Priestley
  Dennis Priestley
  Dennis Priestley is an English professional darts player. He has won two world championships, and was the first player to win both the BDO and WDC world championships, in 1991 and 1994 respectively...
  
  
• Kevin Painter
  Kevin Painter
  Kevin Painter is an English professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation tournaments, where he is known as "The Artist"...
  
  
• Adrian Lewis
  Adrian Lewis
  Adrian Lewis is an English professional darts player for the Professional Darts Corporation who is the reigning PDC World Darts Champion...
  
  
• Andy Hamilton
  Andy Hamilton (darts player)
  Andy Hamilton is a full time professional English darts player widely known for his "aggressive" style of play. He is nicknamed The Hammer and is currently ranked 12th on the PDC Order of Merit....
  
  
• Alan Warriner-Little
  Alan Warriner-Little
  Alan Warriner-Little is an English professional darts player. He currently lives in Crosby, Cumbria and plays with the nickname The Iceman...
  
  
• Andy Jenkins
  Andy Jenkins
  Andy Jenkins is an English darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation events. Jenkins had trials for Southampton Football Club while at school.-BDO career:...
  
  
• John Part
  John Part
  John Part is a Canadian professional darts player, who is nicknamed Darth Maple.Part is one of only five players in darts history to be a three time World Champion...
  
  
• James Wade
  James Wade
  James Wade is an English professional darts player, currently playing in the Professional Darts Corporation . He became the youngest player ever to win a major PDC title at the World Matchplay in July 2007...
  
  
• Colin Lloyd
  Colin Lloyd
  Colin Lloyd , nicknamed Jaws, is an English professional darts player on the Professional Darts Corporation circuit. He is a former world number one ranked player and he has won two major television titles in the PDC - the 2004 World Grand Prix and 2005 World Matchplay...
  
  
• Alan Tabern
  Alan Tabern
  Alan Tabern is an English darts player for the Professional Darts Corporation, where he is also known as "The Saint" and "Tabby"...