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Hoyle Card Games 2008 [OLD VERSION] Review (continued)
More User Submitted Hoyle Card Games 2008 [OLD VERSION] Reviews
Date: 2008-05-20
Works great with Vista!
After the fiasco with the 2007 version, this one works great with Vista. Great fun for hours of entertainment. Runs solid - no errors or computer crashes.
Date: 2008-05-15
Count error in Cribbage
I came upon a counting error in the Crib. I e-mailed the info to Encore.
They ignored me! I have a picture of the error.The other games might be OK but I would not buy it for the Cribbage game.
Date: 2008-05-15
card game review.
I found the product to be very good.The information on the product before purchasing it was accurate and what I wanted to know.I like the graphics and the ease of use of the product.I like the casino games because It seem as though you are really in a casino playing with different people.All in all I found the product very entertaining and fun.And look forward to purchasing other products along this line.Thank You Very Much.
Date: 2008-04-27
Hours of Fun
I not only bought Hoyle Card Games for myself but, also as a gift. There are so many different card games to play that there is never a dull moment. I had fun just creating the faces. I recommend this item to everyone.
Date: 2008-04-25
Still good old Hoyle Card Games, but somethings need to be fixed!
I've always enjoyed the computer versions of Hoyle Card Games since practically 10 years ago. Up to around the 2005 edition, Sierra held the license to the Hoyle name. They released fine and generally bug-free versions. But unfortunately, later on, Encore Software got hold of the license. They must have been given the source code of the program from Sierra, since their versions are so similar to the original Sierra ones. But somehow, they managed to introduce a lot of bugs, especially concerning the sound. As everyone is pointing out, the 2007 edition was terrible on that aspect. This 2008 edition had some of the bugs corrected, but you can still find some missing sound bits. For example, when playing Hearts, when the queen of spades is played, one of the characters will always say some teasing comment. Well, I could see the lips move, but again, no sound was playing. Half of the fun of Hoyle Card Games is the various comments the computer opponents tell you or tell each other. If this feature is broken, the games become kind of dull.
Sierra was replacing some of the characters every few years just to bring some fresh new blood and new comments to the opponents lineup. (You can see the previous cast from circa 2000 in the pdf manual included on the 2008 disc on page 8. Although you can't play with them, since Encore is using the newer cast from recent years). But why wouldn't they do like Sierra and replace some of the cast every few years? Probably just laziness on their part. It's easier to just rehash last year's edition over and over.
Another thing that bugs me... Way back in 2000 or probably earlier, if you played this game in full screen, it would be in 640x480 resolution, if I recall correctly, which was fine back then with the early 8MB graphics cards we were using. Sometime later, they got improved to 800x600, which was great, but they never changed since then. If you play the 2008 edition in full screen, you're still stuck with 800x600! In today's age of 512MB (or more) graphics card, this is preposterous! Even the lowest quality graphics card available in stores today could display this game in 1600x1200 without breaking a sweat. Granted, it's just a card game, but still, why live in the stone age? Maybe hiring a decent programmer would be a sound investment for Encore Software.
If you can only find the 2008 edition, buy it! The price is ok, and it's still Hoyle Card Games, after all. But if you can, try to hunt down one of the earlier Sierra releases (2005 or earlier, I think), to see how good these games used to be.
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