Pool Party is a fully-featured pool and snooker simulation featuring a diverse range of game modes and settings and, of course,  makes use of the Wii’s control system.

Pool Party features 13 different single player and multi-player game types, encompassing the standard 8-ball, 9-ball, snooker game modes, but including more exotic game types such as Rotation and Black Jack. Play takes place in a choice of 10 stylised environments, ranging from the seediest dive bars to opulent mansions and supremely luxurious yachts and players will also be stepping into the shoes of a range of distinctive characters, as well as facing off against formidable player AI.

In the menus you have various pool games from basic 9 ball games, 8 ball games, 10 ball, 15 ball and even snooker. After choosing a game in this screen you have the choice of character with their own little biography, a selection of tables, balls, cues and random button to set a random room, table, character and music.

Before I move on id like to say I would have also preferred if there was some form of tournament or story mode which would have made single player more long lived. I would really recommend a 2 player game if you want any life out of this game.

As for the game itself its what you would expect from a pool game, the balls physics seem pretty decent, graphically its very basic for wii standards but what more do you need with a pool game.

The game room environments are average but the characters heads seem a little too cool for pool and maybe should be street racing instead. To play the game its very simple, you can rotate the cue stick around using 3 ways, either using the analogue on the nun chuck, the left and right buttons on the wii remote and lastly you can press the wii remote and move your wii remote around on screen to move the cue, you can also press up and down on the wii remote to choose elevation.

To put spin on the ball keep pressed on your wii remote and move the left and right keys. To actually hit the ball you can do 2 things, you can keep your wii remote pressed and adjust the power using the analogue stick and push the wii remote forward when your ready to hit your ball. Or for a more realistic shot you can press your wii remote in and pull back and forward on your wii remote to put power on your shot, although a little harder to judge your power its the most realistic way to do it. So for game controls they ain’t bad, there’s a few ways to do it and just choose which makes you most comfortable.

There’s not much more I can really say about the game, its very basic overall and very short lived maybe a nice on-line or single player story mode would have made a difference, there’s some life in 2 player but not much. If you really love pool games then maybe take a look but make sure you can get it at a bargain price. I wouldn’t pay no more than £15 for this game.

Gameplay 5/10
Graphics 5/10
Sound 5/10
Overall 5/10