Koch Media has revealed a selection of screenshots from the upcoming World Snooker Championship Real 2011. Currently in development at Dark Energy Sports, World Snooker Championship Real 2011 is set for release during Q2 2011 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.
Snooker has long been a well-represented sport in video games. Many will have fond memories of hammering Jimmy White’s “Whirlwind” Snooker on the Amiga back in the day, where the excellently implemented green baize action was supplemented with a healthy dose of humour, Archer Maclean having imbued his realistic simulation with anthropomorphic balls that would waggle their arms and blow raspberries at you if you spent too long diddling about with your shots. These days however, gamers demand more realism and licensed sporting action, and as simulations go, the WSC Real franchise offers as faithful an experience as you could want from a snooker game that you control from the comfort of your armchair.
After a two-year hiatus, developer Dark Energy Digital have returned to the table, and the latest installment in the series aims to provide the best and most realistic approximation of the Crucible favourite/working men’s club fave imaginable, and it is fair to say that they have improved upon the last entry in their canon.
Might Pick It Up When It Hits £10 BTW
*Spoiler* John Higgins Put On A Marvelous Performance & Beat Judd Trump 18-15
Brutal Gamer writes:
Picture this: You are in the Crucible theatre in Sheffield and you’re in the final frame of the snooker world championship, it’s a black ball game. You walk around the table accessing your options, you look at the crowd and then bring your concentration back to the shot at hand. You get into position, this shot will win you snooker immortality so you move your arm back. Then your mum walks in and tells you to turn that games console off. This is the level of realism that World Snooker Championship (WSC) Real 2011 brings. I know what your thinking why play a snooker/pool game when you can play in real life? Simply put its fun, sometimes you don’t want to go out in the rain to a smoke filled snooker hall. With WSC 2011 you can sit back relax and enjoy a good snooker/pool sim.
DasReviews writes: "Dark Energy Digital today announced that WSC Real 11, the official game of snooker, will feature full PlayStation Move support on PlayStation 3 when it launches on April 15th, 2011. WSC Real 11 for PlayStation Move on PlayStation 3 will include Real Cue Action: an exciting feature that allows precision aim functionality when using the PlayStation Move controller..."
... but I think games like this would do a lot better if they would just be XBLA/PSN titles, instead of full retail games.
Is it just me, or does the guy in that pic look a little like Shigsy Miyamoto?