Hoyle Card Games 2007
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Hoyle Card Games 2007

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Welcome to the more biggest collection of card games in just one program. The best feature of Hoyle Card Games is, by far, the number of games to be played. It has all the major variations of poker, such as Texas Hold’em and Five Card Stud, lots of standard single-player card games like Solitaire and Memory.
You'll be able to choose from three main categories: Solo Games, Team Games, and Competitive Games. Depending on the game that is chosen, difficulty may change, there may or may not be a great deal of difficulty involved. Some games represent a difficulty that a small child can play, others like Solitaire and Texas Hold'em, have medium-difficulty. On the high end, you can also choose to play games that require a bit more thinking and planning, like Pinochle and Euchre. The entire game has a big, entertaining cast of people made up of many unique characters, that interact with each other, and can talk with you during the game. It also has another nice features, you can create your own character, customizing everything from facial features to clothes, along with a voice and attitude. The audio needs to be better, it is generally laughable.
A problem arise with graphical user interface system, left a lot to be desired. If you try to play fast it is very easy click a wrong button because of its naming scheme. You can take your player online and play against other card players, but the community is too small yet. There was also a button for online tournaments, but there weren't any available. The online GUI was also very broken, with buttons floating on top of each other that shouldn't have been.
The program is also full of bugs out of the box, both graphically and in code. It crashes numerous times, and downloading updates can take over an hour.
In my opinion, the potential of Hoyle Card Games is not exploited.

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Claudia Liliana Timmer
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Pros

  • Has big variations of poker
  • Very nicely-done characters
  • You can have dialogues with other players

Cons

  • Graphical user interface could be better

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I contend these games have been programmed by the game maker Encore. Maybe I have the 2009 version? I've played this game long enough to know the dealer shouldn't be getting 21 every single time the player gets 20. I've had it happen 12 times in my last session of playing. IMO that isn't a coincidence and it's been programmed by Encores programmers. Basically, they cheat and deny they don't. Another fact that really irks me is when the dealer consistently gets BJ/21 whenever the player raises their bet.

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Dirk Holan
Site appears to be out of business as of 8-15-10.

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Roger Green
The 2007 version is not bad, the 2008 version is the best. The 2009 version should never be looked at by anybody, it's a very bad step backwards.
Everybody should have the opportunity of using or obtaining the 2008 version.

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