A good start, needs improvements – Euchre Night (featuring Dirty Clubs) Review

One of the better euchre games out there for iphone and ipod touch. The AI is sophisticated and customizable. and the price remains reasonable. It has potential to be a great game once some improvements are put into place. There is currently no "fast play" option to skip unnecessary hands. If I have already won the hand 3 tricks to 1, there is no need to play the fifth trick-- it is irrelevant. Similarly if the opposing team has already won the first three tricks and "euchred" the team who called it, the last two can be skipped entirely. This is the way people play in real life so it is frustrating when the game forces you to play through hands that have no effect on the game itself. Would be improved greatly with a redone interface-- small aspects of the game, such as the icon to show who is dealing the hand, are not easily noticed on first glance. You can only play landscape-- no "portrait" orientation even though it could easily fit. There are built in "pauses" between each person's action-- it takes each computer player a few seconds to decide if they should pass or order it up...this could be sped up considerably, as it is currently much slower than most human players. It is also completely unnecessary to force people to tap the screen to acknowledge that the game is continuing. And while you can customize colors, there is currently no way to move off of the "metal" aesthetic and use more classic card sets that are, frankly, more attractive.
Review by playingnow on Euchre Night (featuring Dirty Clubs).