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Nice gameplay but still buggy

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 26 / 27
Date: November 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

A nice game overall, with cool graphics and music. However, thorough product testing doesn't seem to have been high on Microsoft's list of things to do.

These are the bugs I've found after playing this game intensively for a week:

Go Fish: If you're the only player left with cards the game doesn't know what to do. You can click all you want on the pile, on your cards, on the other players... but you're going nowhere. Quitting the game (and losing the score) is the only way out.

Canasta: This is the card game I bought this package for. The computer plays a really nice game, but has the following bugs: First, after all players have exchanged their red 3's, the game still insists on checking for red threes in the player's hands after every draw from the pile. Second, even though one of the rules of Canasta is that you cannot go out before you get at least one canasta, the computer players regularly go out this way. This seems to happen when the last card on the player's hand is a Joker that would complete a Canasta. Instead of doing so, the computer discards the joker, leaving you with an illegal hand. Although the computer players are allowed to this, one is not.

I've also seen (though it's usually too fast to be sure) some players, even myself, getting skipped. I'm still trying to prove this one is going on.

One final annoying bug has to do with the computer character's speech. It seems hard-coded to respond to certain events (i.e.: groan if you make a nice play). But they will also do this even if they're playing as your partner.

Overall, the game is good and offers nice game play. I haven't tried the online options yet. But the bugs eventually interfere with the otherwise decent gameplay.

Finally, contrary to another review I saw here about this product, the game does offer several variations of 1-deck and 2-deck solitaire games.

Not as good as the earlier Bicycle Games

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 19 / 21
Date: December 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The bells and whistles, and the silly avatars don't enhance the games on this new Bicycle card games. The solitaire selections are less interesting than the first Bicycle solitaire, and my favorites, Spider and Forty Thieves are missing. One of the games doesn't work at all, and some are quite awkward.

just terrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: November 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This software is just as lazily written and frustrating to play as the Hoyle collection. The bridge game is especially incompetent. Even on expert mode the players bid at random, frequently dropping bids that require a response. More remarkable is the card play, where the AI reliably gives away several tricks every hand. It was fun setting the opponents by seven, the first time, but it becomes boring almost at once.

Don't buy for pinochle

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: May 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Many of the card games work fine but there are problems
with pinochle:
The deal doesn't rotate between players. The deal
stays with the same player throughout the game.
The same player will get "stuck" with the deal
the entire game.
Even at expert level the computer partner and
opponents play like novices.

Shouldn't Have Been Released, Yet

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: July 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I can't believe that Activision is charging money for this software. It's not ready for release, yet; heck, it's not even ready for beta-testing. The software I received is so full of bugs as to be almost unplayable.

Where are the solitaire games

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 11 / 16
Date: November 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I like the way you can choose your own avatar. The music in the back ground is nice.

I just thought I'd be getting more than one solitaire game and there's no poker either.

THIS GAME SUCKS!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 13
Date: July 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

When I bought this game, I knew it wasn't going to be like "NO LIMIT TEXAS HOLD EM' POKER TOURNEMENT" I knew that for sure. What I didn't know,was that it was really really crapy. The characters are a joke! You wouldn't see a mime at a card table playing cards! He would probably get thrown out! If I could give this game zero stars i would!!!! PEEPS AND HOME DOGS, DON"T BUY THIS GAME. You could get this crapy game for .26 on Ebay.

Spider

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: October 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I enjoyed playing Spider on a friend's computer -- the game came with the XP version of windows. I looked for a copy of the game so I could play it. If that's what you're looking for, I'd suggest buying Hoyle's Card Games. It has Spider, as well as at least 25 other varations of solitaire. I enjoy this product much more! :)

Game is not too interesting

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

boring, not much too it, waste of money. Need no skill to play these games

Our Favorite Bridge Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My husband and I play this as much as our other favorite, Scrabble. It's true that your opponents sometimes make dumb moves, and so does your partner, but the graphics are great, which makes the game very enjoyable. All other bridge games we've tried have small cards and dull pictures. True, you win more often than you would in real life, but that's part of the fun. It's also a great way to learn the game, because, unlike real life, you can complete a lot of games very quickly and get the hang of it as you go. The game won't let you make an illegal move.

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