World Snooker Championship 2005
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• Title — World Snooker Championship 2005 • Developer — Blade Interactive • Publisher — Sega • Series — World Snooker Championship • Platforms — Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox, PlayStation Portable • Released — Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox15 April 2005PlayStation Portable1 September 2005 • Genre — Sports • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer World Snooker Championship 2005 is a sports video game developed by Blade Interactive and published by Sega for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PlayStation Portable. It was also released as a PS2 Classic on the PlayStation Network in July 2012.
Overview
• Illustration — The Pool mode from WSC 2005, displaying an altered sized table This is the first game in the series to use the official World Snooker Championship moniker for the game. The game features modes similar to the previous entry in the series, with a career mode, tournament mode, and online modes, as well as quickplay and training modes. The game also features an unlockable "League of Champions" which allows you to replay past real-life events. The game features additional modes to previous releases, with options to play games such as bar billiards. Paul Hunter was planned to feature on the game's cover, but would be diagnosed with cancer before the game's release. He would continue to play the sport until 2006, when he died from neuroendocrine tumours in the lining of his stomach. With later releases of the game by Sold-out Software, his image and likeness remained on the cover and in the game but with a tribute on the back of the box "Paul Hunter 1978 - 2006". After meeting certain requirements, videos of real-life shots are played, showing professional players performing the same shots. In "Free Play" mode, other variables can be edited, such as number of reds on the table, and even the dimensions of the table itself.
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Reception
World Snooker Championship 2005 received "mixed or average" and "generally positive" reviews, according to review aggregator GameRankings. Eurogamer scored the console version highly with a 8/10 score, saying "it's a snooker game that gets pretty much everything spot on", but would later rate the PSP version lower at 6/10.
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- 1.Store Update: 25th July 2012 (Europe). 25 July 2012.
- 2.Hunter has cancer but vows to play in Sheffield. The Guardian. 7 April 2005.
- 3.Gray, Sadie. Paul Hunter. The Times. 11 October 2006.
- 4.White pays tribute to Hunter. Evening Standard.
- 5.Giant Bomb. World Snooker Championship.
- 6.GameRankings. World Snooker Championship 2005 for PC.
- 7.GameRankings. World Snooker Championship 2005 for PlayStation 2.
- 8.GameRankings. World Snooker Challenge 2005 for PlayStation Portable.
- 9.GameRankings. World Snooker Championship 2005 for Xbox.
- 10.Bradwell, Tom. World Snooker Championship 2005 (As good and complete a snooker game as we can recall. Cue debate). Eurogamer. 13 April 2005.
- 11.Bramwell, Tony. World Snooker Challenge (Have a break. No, seriously, take it.). Eurogamer. 9 September 2005.
- 12.Orry, Tom. World Snooker Challenge Review. VideoGamer.com. 13 April 2005.
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