''Pool Party'' is a

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for the

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, published by

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and developed by

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. It includes 13 different styles of

cue sports Cue sports are a wide variety of Game of skill, games of skill played with a cue stick, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a Baize, cloth-covered billiards table, table bounded by elastic bumpers known a ...

, including

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and

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pool, and

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Reception

The game received "unfavorable" reviews according to the

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website

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. N-Europe slammed the game as "badly done

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

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said, "twitchy controls and poor presentation eclipse what little fun there is to be had with this middling billiards game."

References

External links

''Pool Party'' official page
2007 video games Cue sports video games HyperDevbox Japan games Multiplayer and single-player video games Snooker video games SouthPeak Games Wii games Wii-only games {{Snooker-stub