Pool Party is a sports simulation

Simulation

Simulation is the imitation of some real thing available, state of affairs, or process. The act of simulating something generally entails representing certain key characteristics or behaviours of a selected physical or abstract system....

 video game for the Wii

Wii

The Wii is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006. As a seventh-generation console, the Wii primarily competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3. Nintendo states that its console targets a broader demographic than that of the two others...

, published by SouthPeak Interactive

SouthPeak Interactive

SouthPeak Games is a video game publisher of titles in Europe and North America.-History:SouthPeak Games, which was originally a subsidiary of SAS Institute, has been publishing games since 1996 and has worked with multiple development studios, including EAI Interactive, Psyonix Studios and...

 and developed by HyperDevbox Japan

HyperDevbox Japan

HyperDevbox Japan is a French Japanese video game company created by Carlo Perconti, one of the founders of Toka and Arcade Zone. HyperDevbox Japan is developing original games and also porting external titles from one platform to another. The Company is now based exclusively in Tokyo Japan...

. It includes 13 different styles of cue sports, including nine-ball and eight-ball pool, and snooker

Snooker

Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a green baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. A regular table is . It is played using a cue and snooker balls: one white , 15 worth one point each, and six balls of different :...

.

Reception

The game received poor to middling reviews. N-Europe gave the game a 2/10 score, slamming it as "badly done shovelware

Shovelware

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" which felt like a quick cash-in on the Wii's success and control scheme. Gamespot

GameSpot

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gave a 5 out of 10 (mediocre) score, saying "twitchy controls and poor presentation eclipse what little fun there is to be had with this middling billiards game." The review aggregator Metacritic

Metacritic

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scored the game at 32 out of 100 based on 13 industry reviews, generally unfavorable score.

External links

• Pool Party official page