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GameDuell 9-Ball Pool Review |
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GameDuell (gameduell.com) promotes itself as the one of the largest online games sites in Europe and the largest in Germany. To back this claim up it shows Nielsen statistics on the players with GameDuell at the top of the list above other well known brands like AOL Games and Yahoo! Games.
They show a pretty staggering figure of 10 million players available on the site which is a particularly big number. There are only a few networks in the US that can match this level of players and most of those are the top level brands that have massive portals to bring the players in.
One of their main skill games is 9-Ball Pool which is available here; http://www.gameduell.com/gd/k19a.do?gametype=bil
You can sign up to an account pretty easily although it was odd that when I tried to sign up directly from a games page there was no submit button after filling out my information so I had to go back to the main registration page and do it there. Once I was there is was pretty easy.
On the registration, they give you what they call G$ or GameDuell Dollars. This is a reasonably common way for a play for money site to bring players in and play the games for free but only allow it to happen for a certain amount of time before the players free money runs out and they look at depositing real money.
With GameDuell, a $10 deposit gives you unlimited access to all of the free pool games, including the multi-player 9-Ball Pool as well as many others.
If you sign up as a practice pool players your account is guaranteed to be free of costs and obligations:
* The registration as a practice player is completely free of cost and obligations.
* You can cancel your membership at any time.
* Along with your registration as a practice player, you will receive 1,000 G$ of practice credits.
* These practice credits can be used at any time within 6 months without any further obligations.
At least they are reasonably clear that becoming a practice player is more about learning how to play the games before becoming a real money pool game player. There are one too many sites out there that don't let players know they are really a play for money pool site but get the players in by calling the game free.
Overall, finding a practice game to play was reasonably easy (the play 9-ball for money options were very obvious as well) and the game play itself was quite good.
When you're in the game you can see lines that show you where the balls are going to go on the angle that you're hitting them on. I'm not a particular fan of this in pool games as it takes the edge of trying to judge the angle yourself and becomes a little bit like following their lead in the game and doing whatever they want you too.
That said, the game play was good and the balls reacted as you would expect in a normal game. They could probably add in some more graphics for the balls rolling etc (we have that in our own Pocket Them All game) however they are obviously trying to fit a lot into this multi-player pool game and they have done a particularly good job of making the GameDuell 9-ball pool game easy to get into and play straight away. |
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Pool Game Newsflash
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How often should you play to keep your skills up? I find that there are real amounts of time which if I don't play pool within then I start to loose my skill at that particular game. This can be quite relevant to pool skills for a specific peice of software or even just your general hand-eye co-ordintaion for any online game. What's the best way to deal with this? |
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