Hellmuth and Chan to be featured in new Poker Video game.

[Poker Face]

Although Phil's game isn't out yet, last year's WSOP:Tournament of Champions 2007 Edition looks and sounds at least ten times better than the first WSOP. I know that's not saying much, and Chad and McEachern still look like trolls in the game. Their mouths still move too fast in the intros. Scary looking stuff.

They have about 20 or more pros(can't remember how many) actual voices in the game and Lon McEachern and Norman Chad do the commentary (yes, even with Chad's ex-wife quips). Problem is, it all repeats often and the game logic for the Texas Hold'em is probably worse.

I say that only because although the No-Limit Omaha seems fine, the No-Limit Texas Hold-Em has it's CPU players NEVER limping in , when they're first to act. Instead, they always raise, and it's always just 3 or 4 times the big blind. No other variations. At least the first WSOP varied the raises much more and had limp-ins by the CPU, but the audio and graphics were piss-poor.

As well, even though the new version may call all-ins less often with garbage, it still over values suited cards, so calling all-ins with 10-2 suited isn't uncommon (just like in all of them).

I still like the career mode, since it's hard for me to unlock all the tourneys before I run out of money on the hardest level. But it has easier levels, so if you run out of money you can still continue and you need fewer circuit points to advance to each casino.

It even lets you play a heads-up tourney against 15 other cpu players(you can keep pressing the square button until you get the match-up you want for the first round only).

If you're expecting a big improvement over WSOP 1, it certainly is. But just give it a rent first because I could still play the first WSOP game if it's all I had and you said you couldn't (although it is painful to look at and listen to, and those awful call's by the CPU can put me on tilt fast).