World Series of Poker - Tournament of Champions

Xbox 360, PC, PS2

Get "On the Flop" with World Series of Poker. Activision has just released a sequel to their top-selling 2005 Poker game, World Series of Poker - Tournament of Champions. The game features more than 20 top pros, tools to improve their game, celebrity players, and premiere circuits. The Xbox 360 version of the game also features Digitmask technology, which allows you to map your face onto the player during play.

Tournament of Champions features a storyline which casts players into the shoes of a want-to-be Pro player building up his career. For the game you under the tuition of Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, winner of 5 World Series of Poker Championships. During the course of the game you compete against some of the top pros and celebrity players, including Joseph Hachem, Phil "Unabomber" Laak and Jennifer Tilly. Your ultimate goal is to play in the Tournament of Champions, an invitation event held at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Vegas. The game also supports commentary from Norman Chad and Lon McEachern, regular commentators for the World Series of Poker on TV. 

The game has just been released here for Xbox 360 (RRP $80), and PC (RRP $30), and will be available for the PSP (RRP $50) on December 13th, and the PS2 game ($50) will follow on 17th January, 2007.

Sliced Comments: Once a bit of a daggy pastime, Poker has really come to the fore, and has become quite popular even throughout Australian pubs and homes at the moment.