
Review: Pool Bar - For iPad & iPhone 4 - Most Realistic Pool Game?
by Staff Writer
August 2, 2010
Update
Pool Bar was relatively minimalistic when we first covered it, but the most recent 1.2.3 update has changed the game considerably. The biggest addition is Game Center allowing for online multiplayer as well as online high scores and achievements. Connecting via Game Center is easy whether you want to play a friend or auto match, and then once in the match you can text chat, or actually chat over the microphone.
Overview & Features
Do you want to see the most realistic looking pool game on the iPad, well Pool Bar may just be it. Pool Bar includes 8 Ball in US and UK styles, plus 9 ball that you can play as single player and two player on the same device. The game features four characters to play as, but that’s about it.
The Good
Pool Bar is definitely the nicest looking pool game in the App Store, and one of the best looking overall. The physics engine is superb making the pool balls act as realistically as you could imagine in a digital state. The animations of the balls rolling across the table with the varying camera angles is a sight worth showing your idevice off. The game offers a classic game of pool in three varieties, and as much as you can play on a regular pool table you could theoretically play on this game. Single player is shallow going against computer players with one of three difficulties. Multiplayer is good though letting you switch the iPad back and forth between players trying to win head to head.
The Bad
There is a severe lack of content. The outstanding pool engine is in place, but there isn’t much content to use that engine. Single player is just a game against the computer with no stat keeping.