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3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
 Great computer card game!, 2006-12-27
This is definitely a quality PC card game. It installed flawlessly. Gameplay is great and it is very entertaining. Hoyle does these games correctly.
John
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1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
 Not so good...., 2006-12-17
The games we bought this for are Hearts, Spades, and Rummy. The first two have opponents / partners who play very poorly - we're amazed in Spades how your partner cuts you as much as your opponents and they can't play nil hands!! In Rummy the oppoenent ALWAYS gets three Kings - never lay one down.
The worst part of the game is the mouse buttons. You cannot change them and they're backwards! Also you have to drag the cards to lay out (in Rummy), not quick way to do so, and if you dont place them exactly where the box is they return to your hand.
Overall very frustrating and mildly entertaining. With a little more effort and a programmer / designer who had actually played the games this could have been good.
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
 Don't waste your money, 2006-12-14
Most of the people involved with programing this game seem to have been dedicated to making it as irritating, unenjoyable and predictable as possible. Solitaire seems to consist of anly a few variations; only the values of the cards dealt change. After a while you come to know which game you'll win. In poker the players do really clever things like check with a straight and raise with high card.
7 of 7 customers found the following review helpful:
Hoyle Card Games, 2006-07-13
I like the characters and even 'talk' to them. They have their own 'Personalities'. I also like the convinience of not having to use the disk whenever I play. I enjoy this game very much!
9 of 9 customers found the following review helpful:
 Bridge is broken, 2006-06-10
I've spent a lot of time playing this, so I've obviously got my money's worth. There is a nice selection of games and the presentation is quite decent.
I like the way that the other players are "real" characters who talk to you. It's corny, but I find it does add to the fun of playing cards. True, I'm a bit mystified why these characters include talking animals and an alien from space, but you can edit out any characters you don't like, which is fine.
BUT - and here we come to my very big gripe against this game - I discovered that Bridge was essentially unplayable. The game documentation includes a guide to the bidding system, Standard American Yellow Card, which the game supposedly uses. The trouble is, it does nothing of the sort. I eventually realized that there is very little logic to the computer players' bidding. This was totally exasperating. Learning Bridge is hard enough as it is, and is simply impossible if the computer players just make it up as they go along!
I still have fun playing simpler games like Gin, Rummy 500, and Go Fish. But I only give this game 3 Stars because of the broken Bridge.
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