Virtual Pool Mobile Review

Virtual Pool Mobile is a reasonably new offering from Celeris. I’ve heard many rave reviews in forums about how great the game is, but I held off downloading it since I figured it would be “just another pool game for Palm”.

I took the plunge a few weeks ago and downloaded VPM. I began to play my first game, and I was shocked to see the graphics my Palm was generating. The physics of the pool balls is truly stunning. The game play allowed for different spins, cue position on ball, and an infinity number of table views. This game is a must-have…unless you hate being absolutely hooked on a game for weeks on end.

The physics of the game, the quality of the graphics, and its ability to force you to play for hours on end combine to make this the best pool game for Palm OS in my opinion. However, be warned that as you beat your preliminary opponents you will be faced with even more difficult ones.

Installation is rather tricky in my opinion. It puts a self-extracting file on your Palm. However, if you install it to your RAM (like any other application), it will fail to run the program. Make sure you install the extracting installer to your card. Secondly, my launcher, Facer, failed to run the program once installed to the card. I have to exit my launcher and run it off the default launcher in order to load the application. The majority of the other launchers I tried did not have this problem.

Overall, a top-notch game. If you beat the whole game (which I can’t), call me, and I’ll buy you lunch.

-Brock

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