Colin Burton's Snooker Tournament 2001 (PC)

Advantages: Fun to play, with some amusing features.
Disadvantages: Almost incomprehensible voice-over provided by the game's sponsor.

...now it looks as though Colin Burton, the Snooker-hero of the moment, could finally bring the game to the masses with this new title for PC. For those that don’t understand the game of Snooker, it is basically Pool with more balls and mathematics. Don’t be put off by the seeming complexity of it all – learning is well worthwhile, and here you have Snooker-Supremo Colin Burton to coach you along. In his hands, the seemingly complicated ...
...smashing those balls around the slate, and maybe even smashing a few windows! As soon as you hear Colin’s voice jabber his trademark “Get weady”, you suspect that the game is going to rely rather heavily on its high-profile endorsement. The game has some ‘novel’ features, the first of which is the training mode. The training game is set inside Colin’s living room – a beautifully modelled 3D surrounding in ... Read review

Advantages: Different coloured balls
Disadvantages: Grates after a while

I generally don't go for this sort of game, but it was very cheap and I impulse bought it, and it is absolutely marvellous. For anyone familiar with the wock and woll world of Burton snooker tournaments, it provides all the thrills and spills of half edge angle shots, custom cues and bi-lateral ball midads that I never thought I would see implemented in a game. The graphics are fine, but its the sound effects that make it special, the comments and ...
...too, like the windows you can break with the cue, and there is a video recorder in the backroom that you can knock cassettes into, for some reason when I managed to flip "House Party" into the slot, a voice said, "well, thats torn it" and the game crashed, maybe its an in-joke? Also it runs on just about any PC, so if you feel you need another snooker game in your collection, rush out and get this, its weally gweat. ... Read review