It's always nice to watch new media for Xbox Live Arcade games come out of nowhere. Cruising over at GameTrailers, we uncovered a video for Poker Smash, from Void Star Creations. The game takes standard puzzle game mechanics (match tiles of the same type) and throws in a little bit of poker flavor. As in most puzzle games, the object is to match up tiles of a similar color. The twist is that each tile is in fact a poker card, and players can also create poker hands instead of merely matching colored tiles together. We don't know many more specifics other than that, though it appears online multiplayer may not be included, as the official site lists "split screen head to head" only. Poker Smash is currently slated to hit XBLA before the year is out.
You can have up to 5 multiplayer, in which everyone has a stack of chips. You lose and gain chips depending on how well you do. Winner is the guy who owns everyone else's chips.
No on line multiplayer? Forget it. HELLLO people! Isnt the reason we buy XBLA games is because of the fact that YOU CAN PLAY ON LINE, LIKE ON MULTIPLAYER. Even if this was free I wouldnt waste my time on split screen. SPLITSCREEN DEWDS. Please someone tell me that this is some kind of joke
Yeah I'm not sure maybe we're in the minority but I think most people (like Ren and I) buy a game because it will be fun to play. Truth be told I don't get on to play against someone. Usually when I try to I find no one there. Guess that's why I still need a online win in puzzle quest.
"POKER SMASH currently has 4 Singleplayer modes and 2 Multiplayer modes. Singleplayer consists of Action Mode, Puzzle Mode, Practice Mode, and Custom Theme Mode. Multiplayer supports up to 5 people in an Xbox Live Tounament Mode as well as a Local Splitscreen Mode."
This looks like tetris attack except with poker hands added in as well. Very exciting imo. The only problem I see is the cursor is a single box with an arrorw (which im sure changes depending on what direction your coming from, frather then a double box. This means unfotunetly the action will be slower then tetris attack, which could very well ruin the game.
@mike.. Actually the single cursor makes it so that you can play it even faster than Tetris Attack. Currently the record combo is 80X as far as multipliers go.
And yes it has online play as well. Up to five different people can battle it out over Xbox Live.
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12-04-2007 @ 6:58PM
Jonah Falcon said...
You can have up to 5 multiplayer, in which everyone has a stack of chips. You lose and gain chips depending on how well you do. Winner is the guy who owns everyone else's chips.
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12-05-2007 @ 10:17AM
Richard Mitchell said...
Still, it never says online. Just that 5 players can have a tournament.
12-05-2007 @ 2:54PM
Jonah Falcon said...
I can email you the devs email addy so you can ask them directly.
12-05-2007 @ 3:00PM
Jonah Falcon said...
Just realized how silly it is to say "It has up to 5 player multiplayer... is it online?" (grin)
12-04-2007 @ 7:27PM
Moorio said...
HOMERUN!
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12-04-2007 @ 7:29PM
frrs said...
The art style actually looks nice.
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12-04-2007 @ 8:39PM
Frank said...
Looks fun actually, one of the few arcade games I'm actually excited for before it comes out!
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12-04-2007 @ 10:08PM
alex said...
No on line multiplayer? Forget it. HELLLO people! Isnt the reason we buy XBLA games is because of the fact that YOU CAN PLAY ON LINE, LIKE ON MULTIPLAYER. Even if this was free I wouldnt waste my time on split screen. SPLITSCREEN DEWDS. Please someone tell me that this is some kind of joke
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12-05-2007 @ 3:25AM
Ren said...
No, I buy them because they'd seem like a fun game to play. Online or no.
12-05-2007 @ 2:56PM
Darkharmony said...
Yeah I'm not sure maybe we're in the minority but I think most people (like Ren and I) buy a game because it will be fun to play. Truth be told I don't get on to play against someone. Usually when I try to I find no one there. Guess that's why I still need a online win in puzzle quest.
12-05-2007 @ 2:56PM
Jonah Falcon said...
There's online play, so you can get your head out of the oven. (grin)
12-04-2007 @ 10:35PM
Calsonic said...
Me and my friends will get a kick out of this. I'll buy it.
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12-05-2007 @ 2:56PM
Jonah Falcon said...
Yes, there IS online tournament mode:
"POKER SMASH currently has 4 Singleplayer modes and 2 Multiplayer modes. Singleplayer consists of Action Mode, Puzzle Mode, Practice Mode, and Custom Theme Mode. Multiplayer supports up to 5 people in an Xbox Live Tounament Mode as well as a Local Splitscreen Mode."
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12-05-2007 @ 5:11PM
mike said...
This looks like tetris attack except with poker hands added in as well. Very exciting imo. The only problem I see is the cursor is a single box with an arrorw (which im sure changes depending on what direction your coming from, frather then a double box. This means unfotunetly the action will be slower then tetris attack, which could very well ruin the game.
ill give the demo a shot tho.
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12-05-2007 @ 5:23PM
Jonah Falcon said...
You can also lay bombs on the board as well.
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12-15-2007 @ 2:32AM
The Baron said...
Hello!
@mike.. Actually the single cursor makes it so that you can play it even faster than Tetris Attack. Currently the record combo is 80X as far as multipliers go.
And yes it has online play as well. Up to five different people can battle it out over Xbox Live.
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