World Series of Poker 2008: Battle for the Bracelets

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $11.55

Features:

• Your poker skills will be put to the ultimate test by over 30 of the world's top poker champions
• Phil Hellmuth, Chris Ferguson, and Mike Matusow will teach you their tips and tricks in a poker school setting
• With successful wins, you will unlock valuable poker tools that will enable you to become an even more skillful player
• Build your bankroll at all the favorite locations of previous years such as Harrah's New Orleans, Grand Tunica, Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino and new this year, the hottest poker rooms of the Las Vegas strip!
• ESRB Rated T for Teen

Customer Reviews:

Locks Up Constantly [Posted on 2008-01-27]
Bought this game and my laptop meets all the requirements but about 5-10 hands into any game the video starts going crazy making the game unplayable. Contacted Activision support and they were no help and would not offer a refund. It appears Activision doesnt stand behind their products.

Horrible [Posted on 2008-02-02]
This game has so many bugs its unplayable. Installed it on my main gaming system, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 gigs memory, 8800GTX video card and after a few mins of play the video would hang, get jumpy, and eventually the whole game would freeze. After searching the web i saw 1000's of people complaining about the same problems. I saw a few people claim they got the game to work on older systems. So i installed it on my laptop, P4 3ghz, 1 gig mem, with on board video. The end result, not any better. Activision has horrible customer support - would avoid this game like the plauge.

A Good game IF you have the right video card and driver... [Posted on 2008-02-12]
I have experienced the same video problems that many others have with this game. When I first purchased the game I was using an ATI X850XT video card and had no problems playing this game. I recently upgraded my video card to an NVidia 8800GT and the game would go "crazy" after about five minutes with flashing and flaky video problems to where I could barely figure out how to exit the game. It was unplayable and very frustrating. I looked for updates from Activision (of which there were NONE) and read many complaints on the net about others having problems as well. I even updated my video drivers to the latest version at the time. Nothing worked UNTIL today! I just updated my video drivers to the latest version (version 169.38) and now it works perfectly! I don't know what it is about the older NVidia drivers, but they fixed something in this latest version that also fixed the video issues with this game. I recommend anyone who has a fairly recent NVidia card to update to this driver version and see if it works for you. I don't think the ATI cards are having same issues, but I could be wrong. Hope this helps! As far as the game itself, it is very enjoyable once it all works and I do recommend it if you can get it to work properly.

Does not work on my system, period [Posted on 2008-03-16]
After I play this for 5 minutes, the graphics corrupt to the point where I can't find the exit button. Random images overwrite everything and the game is compltely unplayable.

My system is a quad-core Pentium, Nvidia 8800 gtx with all software updates. I play other demanding games like Crysis, Stalker, COD4 with no corruption or other graphics problems.

This game needs a patch and is unplayable without one. Unfortunately I rushed in head first and bought the game without checking reviews. Please, please heed this advice and do not buy this game until Activision gets a patch out. And even then, wait to see if reviews say the atch is successful.

For now, DO NOT BUY THIS GAME.

Bad Bad Bad [Posted on 2008-03-30]
This is the worst video game I have ever bought. It would not run on a new laptop running vista. It did run on my desktop running xp. When it did run it was poor at best. My computer locked up several times while it was installed whether it was running or not. When I uninstalled it the problem went away. The brat must have been behind on his mortgage payment to put his name on this trash.World Series of Poker 2008: Battle for the Bracelets

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