World Poker Tour: Texas Hold 'Em (Mobile)

GameSpot editors' review

• CNET editors' rating: 3.5 stars Very good
  Detailed editors' rating
  Overall score: 7.8 (3.5 stars)

• Reviewed by:
  Alex Navarro
• Reviewed on: 04/22/2005
• Released on: 04/19/2005
• Originally published on GameSpot: World Poker Tour: Texas Hold 'Em (Mobile) Review

Mforma's World Poker Tour: Texas Hold 'Em is exactly what it advertises. Here, you'll find offline and cell network versions of the game of Hold 'Em, with varying types of bet limits (including no limit). That's pretty much it, but that's not a knock against the game in any way. World Poker Tour is just about as solid of a poker package as you're going to find on mobile phones, and it is well worth downloading for any serious poker fan.

When playing single-player, you'll find yourself at a table against five artificial intelligence-controlled players. The interface is modeled after a real-life card table, with a top-down view of all the players and a camera that pans back and forth from one end of the table to the other, depending on whose turn it is. Before you start a game, you can go into the options menu and select "details," which includes customizations for your personal avatar, whether you want players to be eliminated or not, and what you want the bet limits and blinds to be. The game itself plays briskly, without moving too quickly for those who might not be super familiar with it. If you're new to Texas Hold 'Em, you can get tips from the main menu screen, and the game will also let you in on the poker lingo for all of the different pocket combinations ("pocket rockets" and so forth). However, the challenge in the offline game isn't really that stiff. AI players will often play a little too aggressively with decent but unremarkable hands, so once you get an adequate chip stack going it's not too hard to bully them around.

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