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Ailene Goldhirsh

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Back in the midsts of time (2011) I reviewed International Snooker, giving it a rave write-up - but ever since have still been eyeing up the more modern 'Pro' version, effectively a re-write, over on Android and iOS. And now the new, full game is on Windows Phone and I'm expecting great things. Summary: I wasn't disappointed, though do see my caveat in bold below!

Writer's note: this game is heavy on processor requirements. I was playing it on the Lumia 930, which runs it at full speed. Ditto the 1520. But note that the older S4-based phones run the game at less than half speed, essentially unplayable, while the Snapdragon 400-based phones run it acceptably, but definitely 'slower than real life', and with some graphical stuttering.

The original International Snooker was a great simulation for its time, but felt a little lacking in subtleties and atmosphere. In contrast, the 'Pro' rewrite has been designed with everything you'd expect from the ground up:

All of this is in perfect step with the version of International Snooker Pro on Android, even down to matching the Android version's longstanding 'bug' whereby the screen time-out interrupts your opponent's breaks, forcing you to keep tapping the screen to keep the game alive. Provided your lockscreen timeout isn't too short though, this isn't a problem in most matches.

There's a trial version that allows three frames to give you a feel for the game and how it plays, plus a 'Quick Play' feature, but the meat of International Snooker Pro is in the 'Career' mode, in which you work through a virtual year, with each tournament letting you work through easy first rounds, and then your opponents getting ever better in terms of playing AI, until in the final of each event you're absolutely punished if you miss.

It's perfectly pitched and utterly addictive. I've been playing this title for half an hour a day every day for the last two years on Android (I know, I know....) and still love it. The real world physics and the AI of the opponents mean that no two games are ever remotely the same and there's a real feel of trying to 'beat' the other guy.

If this all sounds a big gushing then I make no apologies. The timing of the visuals, with TV-style angles cutting in to show the ball and pocket action, the replays, the vocal scoring, the occasional applause from the audience (which is still generally muted, but hey....), all adds to an immersive game environment.

Yes, it's true that I've now bought this title in each of its two incarnations on three mobile platforms and that's adding up to close to 15 over four years. That should tell you how good this game is. Shots that I'd attempt in the real world (a little back spin, 76% power should bring the cue ball back off two cushions, ready for the pink, etc.) come off exactly as real balls would on a real table and with real cushions. In fact, in the real world I'd fluff the cue stroke and miss, at least here the cue stroke is the one thing that always comes off perfectly, provided you remember to chalk the cue!

In terms of in-game winnings, you amass enough to buy a temporary 'auto-chalk' function, and to buy extra cues with more power, these are all nice-to-haves, but no more. The core of the game is the snooker itself and this is hard to fault.

Is International Snooker Pro perfect? Not quite. There's an interesting quirk whereby the AI of opponents can be a bit weak getting out of snookers, so if you're miles behind in a frame then it's almost worth hanging in and trying to win the frame on the 'three misses' rule - that's a million to one shot in the real world and a 10:1 shot here, at least if your snooker is fiendish enough!

I've often contended that mobile app stores are stocked with content that, to be frank, could do with some quality control. Happily, there are also a few applications which ride high above the rest, with interface that's nigh-on perfect and oozing class - International Snooker is one such, for Windows Phone, offering a genuinely realistic environment, a terrific interface and gameplay that's pitched just right.

Pool and snooker games are perennial favourites on mobile platforms - I should know, having bought just about all of them over the years. And now we have the premier cueing title on Windows Phone, by the British developers Big Head Games. In fact, International Snooker is also available for the iPhone, for Android, even for the Mac, but don't worry for this isn't a half-hearted port to Windows Phone - Big Head has created this version from scratch and the result is very polished indeed.

Based exclusively around a first person view of the table, you never actually get to see your own cue, but this isn't an issue - controls for spin and cueing angle are in the screen corners and it's relatively easy to get the cue ball to do your bidding. The power meter on the right of the screen is less intuitive than 'drawing the cue back' by touch, as featured on some other titles, but does have the advantage that you can set the power of a shot exactly (e.g. you learn by experience that nn% is what you need to play a thin safety and get the cue ball back to baulk.

There's a surprisingly playable 'trial' version, which lets you a fair way through the game (and then a little more each day after that) so you really can get into the title before committing yourself to purchase. Yet again, perfectly pitched by the developer, Big Head Games.

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