Virtual Pool HD
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Games | $1.99 | Celeris, Inc. | iPad |
ATTENTION - Virtual Pool HD is only for older devices.
If you have iOS 6 or later please search AppStore for Virtual Pool 4.
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Rack 'em up road warriors. Virtual Pool, the world's best selling 3D Pool simulation, is now available on the iPad.
With High resolution graphics and a huge playing surface for accurate aiming and speed control this is truly mobile pool at its best!
- Touchscreen interface to aim, apply spin and shoot in a full 3D virtual world.
- State of the art physics engine delivers a stunning simulation of billiards.
- Career mode with movies of Curly, the hustler, guide you through 6 pool halls and 122 opponents.
- Ghost Ball and Aim Line help you learn the correct angles for making shots.
- Practice mode with Tracking Lines helps you learn to play pool like a pro.
Reviews
The only true contender for pool app
Ktb53
The other games I have seen can't match the physics and realistic game play of Virtual Pool. It's a bit skimpy on graphics and overall atmosphere but playability is great. I hope the keep making it better and developing the characters etc. Great though!
Worst pool app on the market
RMD1976
This game looks bad and plays worse. The rails have no bounce and it feels like shooting on a crappy bar box.
A+++++
WiseguyWickett
This game is great! The physics and gameplay are very realistic. I have played it for hours moving up in the virtual pool circuit. Can't wait for some updates!
Exactly the same as the iPhone app
Dutch Boyd
I enjoyed the iPhone app quite a bit and when I got my iPad I had hoped that this would be even better. It was exactly the same, though... Same storyline, opponents and everything. As it is, I wish I didnt spend the five bucks. If you already have the iPhone version, stay away until they release a sequel.
Huge disappointment, so far...
Sergii
I was quite excited to find iPad version of the game, which I play often on my iPhone. However, HD version seem to be a very poor adaptation for the bigger screen. Blurred picture in some sections, some important settings are missed (such as ability to turn off the bad quality room picture, and turn on the shoot button, which appears, strangely enough, only with track lines mode, etc.) Modest effort so far, need serious improvement. Please, do it.
Best Pool App so far, by far
Idontwantanynickname!
I have tried them all, and have mostly been disappointed. None of the other pool apps out there could rate more than 1 or 2 stars. But this 5-star app is in a league of its own. Kudos; this is a killer app. That's not to say it is perfect, it could use more games (Philadelphia anyone? How about cut-throat?) and more rules options (let us conform the game to our local rules) and it is buggy at times (the graphics regularly disappear at the top of the screen and who wins is often obviously incorrect; simply putting a game "on hold" results in an immediate forfeit; called shots in 8-ball make the cue point wildly in bizarre directions). Plus the menu button needs to be relocated to somewhere that isn't directly where we want to interact with the game, which annoyingly happens all of the time. It could use some freshening up. But although the ralls are a little hot (how about an option to adjust that?) the physics are nearly perfect. For instance, the throw imparted by engiish to a cut shot is right on the money. Banks follow english and shot speed faithfully. Drag-draw shots are extremely realistic and faithful to stroke speed. All that is missing here physics-wise is swerve and the ability to raise the cue butt for jump and masse shots, really. If you jump or break too hard, the cue ball should fly off the table just like in real pool. So far, things are not quite that realistic. But getting used to this game is much like getting used to any particular pool table. I am smitten. I would like more games and more table sizes (currently you get 3 7-ft tables and 3 8-ft tables); a regulation 9-footer would be nice (make a product placement deal with Fusion tables, why don't you? Incorporate a graphic of the table top coming off and transitioning to a pool table, and charge them for it. Then we all win), and it would be nice if we could alter table cloth colors and ambient lighting per room. Snooker on a 10 or 12 footer would be sweet. On the minus side, the 3D zoom into the table after every shot, impressive as it is, is actually a completely unnecessary time waster--what we want directly after the balls stop moving is an overhead shot, and we don't need suggestions for the next shot either (just go overhead and remove the cue from the display until you get player input). And there is an annoyingly unrealistic cue?/rack? noise during each break shot setup (not needed-take that out). Popups explaining fouls would be welcome. But there really is little to complain about. I have played this game every day since I got it 6 months ago, and it never gets old. It is sometimes more convenient and more fun than real pool, believe it or not. If I had the time I would play this game 4 hours a day every day. It's that good. It occupies about 98% of the time I spend on the iPad. For all of its minor warts and faults, it's the best app I've ever seen, from anybody on any device. And that is saying something. If I had paid a couple of hundred for this app, I would consider that to have been a bargain. That's how much fun it is. What I would really like to see is an expanded training feature written with this app as the starting point. Redos on shots would be a really great addition. A button option for slow-mo replay of each shot would be very instructive and helpful to learning about what each shot's ramifications on the current new ball location for each shot might be. That alone might be the most valuable feature that this app does not yet have. Do that, and incorporate all the above features and needed bug fixes as a paid upgrade, and this app would be worth 10 times what it costs now, and I would gladly pay that and more. Otherwise, I might have to write that app myself!
Very addictive and strangely soothing
Anil Raghavan
I love plaing this game. It relaxes me after a long hard day at work. No frills, but very effective.
Where Is Easy Shoot
Steve Smyth
I have had Virtual Pool on iOS since before it was called iOS. My favorite game on the platform. This is the best version so far but occasionally I like to use Easy Shoot. Five stars if you bring it.
Poor competition
4boots
I like this game a lot. The visuals and physics are great and for the most part the play is fun. However, I wish the play was more competitive. Even with the difficulty rating set at the highest "Good Luck" in career play, I was able to beat all the opponents in straight pool without breaking a sweat. I even beat Curly by 75 balls and without using the Aim Aid. Hey, I ain't that good a pool player...
A welcomed friend.
DaB0lt
I have been playing VP on the PC for many years and have always found it to be the most precise pool sim available. This version is very well done but needs the following: - ability to raise butt of cue - ability to jump the ball - ability to skip playback of shot (z in PC version) Not a bad start, though.
