World Championship Poker 2 with Howard Lederer

by Crave Entertainment

Product Features

• Play against the best in the game: Howard Lederer, Annie Duke and others
• 14 different poker games
• Characters have individual styles, signature moves and personalities of their real-life counterparts
• Real Deal simulation and Power Play arcade modes

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000A87T56
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.2 x 0.5 inches
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: December 14, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,298 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #6 in Video Games > Sony PSP > Cards
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: Sony PSP

World Championship Poker 2: Featuring Howard Lederer lets you ante up at the high stakes table, for the sequel to the best-selling World Championship Poker! Test yourself by bluffing and trying to steal the pot from some of the world's toughest professional poker players, including Howard Lederer, Annie Duke and more!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Slow gameplay and loading times, January 1, 2006

By 

Thomas Hyde "wildrush" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: World Championship Poker 2 with Howard Lederer (Video Game)

Horribly slow loading times and no feature to skip thru games you have folded on? Like watching paint dry at times. Althought there are some nice characters in the game ... the load times and poker basics have not been polished in this game.
I also bought WSOP and although it's not as flashy, the gameplay experience is much better. Do yourself a favor, ignore Howard ... He's bluffing, when he says this one's good.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars If I could give this game negative stars, I would, January 20, 2006

By 

Robert Berger - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: World Championship Poker 2 with Howard Lederer (Video Game)

I picked this up as the first game I bought for my PSP which I bought shortly after Christmas this year. The first thing I noticed were the incredibly slow load times, but I took that with a grain of salt as with a poker game, I didn't really see it as a terrible detriment.

Then I discover the little feature called the bluff mini-game. Basically if you have either a very strong hand that you are slow playing or are bluffing with a weak hand, you have to play a mini-game where you use the analog stick to keep a cursor in an area or your player gives a "tell". I have no idea what moving a cursor around would have to do with your bluffing skills, but apparently they felt the need for more to the game and it is just awful.

Now, here is where the real big issue comes. I have reached week 9 I believe it is and in the tournament for this week my game continually freezes up on me. I have attempted to contact Crave Entertainment, the manufacturerers of the game, and have gotten zero response.

Crave put out a mediocre game that simply doesn't work properly and they've done nothing to fix it. I don't recommend this title to anyone and I personally will not purchase another game from this company.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Maybe A Good Game on PS 1, December 7, 2006

By 

Chess Buddhist (Long Beach, California) - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: World Championship Poker 2 with Howard Lederer (Video Game)

Big, chunky polygon graphics, long load times and long mid-game pauses in the "action," clumsy in-game navigation, very poorly designed mini-game, almost nothing good about this game. In fact, go on your PC and do a search for "free poker game" and you'll get a better game than this. It wouldn't be so bad if it didn't take so long to load and if there wasn't a long pause between deals, allowing the PSP to catch up (it's obviously thinking, but thinking about what I can't say. It's not like it's loading up any graphics.) There are plenty of video poker games, I'm sure any of them are better than this one. And for an extra annoying twist, you get "wisdom" from poker champ Howard Lederer. "Don't rub your eyes during a poker game, the chips can be dirty," (thanks mom, uh, Howard). How about this gem: "It's better to play weak players."

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