is a Japan-exclusive

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video game for the

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and

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. Like its predecessor, '' Side Pocket 2'', it features the in-game likeness of a real-life professional pool player. In this case, it's

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member, Kyoko Sone. The game is the third and final installment of the Side Pocket series.

Gameplay

Unlike the prior installments in the ''Side Pocket'' series, ''Side Pocket 3'' renders the pool room environment with 3D polygons. In spite of this, the table can still be viewed in a traditional, top-down fashion. Play modes consist of: story mode, training mode, trick game mode, and versus mode. Game variants include

eight ball Eight-ball (also spelled 8-ball or eightball, and sometimes called solids and stripes, spots and stripes or rarely highs and lows) is a discipline of pool played on a billiard table with six pockets, cue sticks, and sixteen billiard balls ...

nine ball Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with at each of the four corners and in the middle of e ...

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14.1 continuous Straight pool, which is also called 14.1 continuous and 14.1 rack, is a cue sport in which two competing players attempt to as many billiard balls as possible without playing a . The game was the primary version of pool played in professional ...

, bowlliards, cutthroat,

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, poker, pocket game (a homage to the original game), and yotsudama.

Reception

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scored the PlayStation version at 25 out of 40, claiming that it was more or less the same as its Sega Saturn counterpart. Brazilian magazine

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gave the Saturn version 8 out of 10.

References

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''Side Pocket 3'' (PS)
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