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PSN Review – Inferno Pool

07/26/2009 Written by Darren Arquette

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Inferno Pool is Dark Energy Digital’s first PlayStation Network title and represents a multifaceted approach to the classic game of billiards. Bringing a bit of Unreal Tournament attitude to the slate as well as some rock star pyrotechnic effects.  But, will this odd little PSN download help fill the void of a lack of summer games?

There are numerous features and modes included with the game.  There is the aptly titled Inferno Pool as well as the classic 8-ball, 9-ball and Practice.  Each mode can be played single player and 4 player multiplayer. Multiplayer can be played online or offline with friends or AI enabled bots. Kudos to Dark Energy Digital for adding local offline multiplayer.  It’s generally a feature that is often over looked even by larger studios.

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Other options include table color and bot AI difficulty (from 1 to 5). The color makes no difference what so ever accept maybe see the ball colors better on certain tables.  Artificial intelligence settings present quite a bell curve.  The lower levels being fairly easy and the upper levels have intuition just short of flawless. Using the lowest AI setting of 1 (novice) will give you the advantage of showing the ball trajectory.

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The game in general is not hard to look at, visually this is probably one of the better looking games of Pool available.  Framerate is solid and the camera offers various views to assist in precision shots. To no surprise 8 Ball and 9 Ball play very much like the classic games. Very faithful but with the Inferno Pool ambiance and backdrop.






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9 Responses to “PSN Review – Inferno Pool”

  1. Brent says:

    This will hold us off until that PSN exclusive pool game that was announced recently comes out. (Name?) Great review.

  2. mercitec says:

    to Brent the game your talking about is Hustle Kings but this game kinda looks interesting just might cop it can also use more games to my collection especially a new genre.

    Add me on PSN: Mercitec
    Level 12 Gamer

  3. SolidCake_ says:

    is na going to get this?

  4. killajd says:

    I will be getting this cause I love playin pool… This looks to be looking real good

  5. mcx says:

    Hustle Kings looks like my type of style. I would like to play a demo for this one before I judge it.

  6. Is this a EU store only game? I havent seen this in the store, looks pretty awesome though.

  7. shadowjin says:

    I keep hearing good things about this game and the fact it has split cam video type thing..

  8. SteelFox says:

    the ability to se your friends via split screen PIP was a cool add on.

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