Hoyle Card Games 2004

by Sierra

Product Features

• Test yourself against 12 characters, each with their own unique strengths and strategies
• Create your own identity in the game with the unique Facemaker option
• Hone your skills with the adjustable difficulty levels
• Games include - Bridge, Canasta, Crazy Eights, Gin Rummy, Pinochle, Skat and Poker
• Also includes Hearts, Cribbage, Old Maid, Memory Match, Go Fish, Pitch and Euchre

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000083JXW
• Item Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: September 2, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,789 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #29 in Video Games > PC Games > Casino
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Let Hoyle deal you a winning hand with over 30 funand classic card games at your fingertips.Product InformationDeal Yourself In for some fun with 20 of your favorite card games!  Bridge hearts gin – whatever your game Hoyle CardGames will put you right in the middle of the action with over 30 classic cardgames including everything from solitaire to seven-card stud. And with Hoylein-game tutorials and strategies you’ll learn to hold ‘em and fold ‘emlike a pro in no time.  Turn a deck of cards into 20 games of amusement and hours of fun! Learn thebasics with Hoyle's easy In-Game Tutorials that walk you through the funstep-by-step. Earn "Hoyle Bucks" and purchase extra content musicand more! And now you can reply to the table chatter with new BackTalk feature.Provides hours of fun-filled entertainment!Who Do You Want to Be Today?Create your own personal identity to face your challengers.With the Facemaker feature you can customize your character's look when playingselect Hoyle games. Choose different hair eyes noses and more for thousands offun unique combinations. Or let the computer select your face by choosing theRandomize feature which presents an assortment of diverse characters using thevarious menu options! The possibilities are endless!  Hoyle Card Games offers 12 interactive animated opponents each with their ownunique phrases to help bring your favorite 18 card games to life. Choose toplay with Chloe the competitive physical trainer; Jack the retired travelwriter; Tony the down-to-earth fireman; or Marvin the fiercely funnytyrannaosaur.Games Included 5 Card Draw Bridge Canasta Crazy Eights Cribbage Euchre Gin  Go Fish Hearts Memory Match Old Maid Pinochle Pitch Rummy 500 Skat Solitaire Spades Spite & Malice Tarot WarProduct Features "Hoyle Bucks"  -  Earn virtual bucks and redeem them for enhanced content. In-Game Tut

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hoyle 2004 Card Games OK, January 27, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Hoyle Card Games 2004 (CD-ROM)

Hoyle Card Games 20004 is OK and I got around its "Insert CD" while playing by using Alcohol 120% (version 1.4.8) putting it in a virtual drive. Now my only real beef with it, is you cant change the background when playing Crazy Eights. The Hoyle Bucks
(I used a cheat) and Facemaker is neat. If you dont like having
to put a CD in all the time, get Hoyle Card games 2003-its
basically the same game, just without the "insert CD". Odd though, I still play a 1996 Hoyle Cards version, which except for a minimum 4 players in every game, is still far superior
to the 2000 generations, IMO.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than I thought, July 15, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Hoyle Card Games 2004 (CD-ROM)

I have the other versions of these Hoyle games, mainly I got new ones because they had new games. This one did not so I avoided buying it.
I got the puzzle games and hated it because of the display style everything seems to tiny and you can't make it more full screen like you could in the old versions. I was really hesitent to buy this but I did anyway.
I am enjoying it. The "Hoyle Bucks" makes the game more interesting as you try to do certain things to make the money plus collect the backrounds and such. (now you are "paying" for card back and backrounds that used to be "free") I like the talk back feature. There have always been characters I wish I could tell off and now I can ;). If that gets old I can always turn them off.

So if you are new to Hoyle Card Games then get this. If you have previous versions then only get if you have the extra money or these features sound tempting to you and you dont mind having to have the cd in the drive to play.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Poker Programming, April 25, 2004

By 

THOMAS WALL (Decatur, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hoyle Card Games 2004 (CD-ROM)

I really like the Hoyle card games, especially Spades, Hearts, and Gin Rummy. However, the Poker game is not at all realistic. Whoever wrote the paramaters evidentally knows absolutely nothing about poker probalities.
I do not play it often, but played two games tonight. In one game there were SIX times that a player got four of a kind! Twice it was four aces! The probabalities of that is somewhere two million to one.
I would surely like to see you issue an upgrade to this game to make it more realistic.
Sincerely,

Thomas Wall
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