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This is a sports game category that covers all computer games that emulate cue sports, such as pool or carom billiards. For snooker , see the subcategory, Category:Snooker video games . Subcategories
The Virtual Pool series has received a moderate-to-good reception from critics, with Virtual Pool 3 the highest-rated game. [32] A GameSpot review of Virtual Pool Hall praised its game mechanics, particularly the ball-collision physics. [8] Virtual Pool 2 received a perfect score (100) from the German PC Player magazine. [33]
Five-pin billiards or simply five-pins or 5-pins (Italian: [biliardo dei] cinque birilli; [1] Spanish: [billar de] cinco quillas or casín), is today usually a carom billiards form of cue sport, though sometimes still played on a pocket table. In addition to the customary three balls of most carom games, it makes use of a set of five upright ...
Four-ball billiards. Four-ball billiards or four-ball carom (often abbreviated to simply four-ball, and sometimes spelled 4-ball or fourball) is a carom billiards game, played on a pocketless table with four billiard balls, usually two red and two white, one of the latter with a spot to distinguish it (in some sets, one of the white balls is yellow instead of spotted).
The word billiard may have evolved from the French word billart or billette, meaning 'stick', in reference to the mace, an implement similar to a golf putter, and which was the forerunner to the modern cue; however, the term's origin could have been from French bille, meaning 'ball'. [4]
Player attempts to pot the "3" Ball in the corner pocket, using left hand english and follow. Virtual Pool 2 is a simulation of several different modes of pool.Like its predecessor, Virtual Pool, the game is viewed in first-person 3D perspective, in contrast to most earlier pool games, which featured a fixed overhead view. [4]
See the list of cue sports for various other games with "billiards" in their names; also more specifically: Pin billiards, a fairly large number of billiard games that use a pin, or a set of pins or "skittles" Bar billiards, a game combining elements of bagatelle and English billiards; Electric billiards, an obsolete term for pinball
Virtual Pool (assigned the retronym Virtual Pool 1 after the release of sequels) [1] is a 3D, first-person sports simulation video game released by Interplay Productions in 1995. It is the first of the Virtual Pool franchise of computer simulations of pool games developed by Celeris.