Game Description

3 Pack, from HeadGames Publishing, is a collection of three previously released indoor sports games including pool, a dart game and bowling. The game supports 3D acceleration.

Pro Pool 3D is a billiards simulation with eight types of pool including classics such as Cutthroat, Eight Ball and Nine Ball. Players can choose to play in four different locations, each with a specific environmental theme: a "dive" bar, an upscale billiards hall, a typical recreation room in a person's house or a tournament hall. The game features advanced AI, five different cues and multiple shot styles including English, Massé and jump shots. There are 25 varied table styles and a training mode for learning basic gameplay.

In Dart Pro, there are five games from which to choose including 301, 501, baseball, cricket and tourney. Multiple dart types are available (based on throwing styles) as well as a choice of skill levels. Dart Pro accommodates up to four players and features 3D graphics.

ProBowl 3D features 10 bowling venues, customized bowlers, multiple camera angles and a variety of shot styles. Players can emulate hooks, slices or straight shots when taking aim at the pins. There are several modes of play including Extreme, Orbit, Dream and Ribbons and Pins. ProBowl 3D's soundtrack features CD-quality music and digital samples from real bowling alleys. ~ Anthony Baize, All Game Guide

Roots & Influences

3 Pack is a compilation of three previously released games: ProPool 3D, Dart Pro and ProBowl 3D. ~ Michael L. House, All Game Guide

Review: Enjoyment

Each of these three games have their moments, but none of them can offer more than a few minutes of fun. ~ Anthony Baize, All Game Guide

Production Credits

Install: Jason Delamater, Ed Clune

Additional Graphics: Jason Delamater, Ryan Merriman, Trevor Harveaux

Project Manager: Jason Delamater

Additional Sounds: Jason Delamater

Box Art and Graphics: Trevor Harveaux

Head Games Is: Danny Hammett, Chad Koehler, Terry DeSanctis, Mitch Norton, Charmaine Klohe, Mary Reinitz, Trevor Harveaux, Jason Delamater, Jeremiah Conlon, Ryan Merriman, Peter Eckert, Brent Smith, Rick Snyder

Special Thanks: Teresa Rojas, The Coke Man, The Jedi Master, The Internet, Samantha, Timmary, Billy, Patrick and Joseph Hammett ~ Michael L. House, All Game Guide

Review: Overall

3 Pack is a collection of three budget games that barely stand alone as individual packages. ProBowl 3D is a weak bowling simulation that suffers from poor graphics, almost no sound effects, and a terrible user interface. Apart from the numerous styles of bowling balls offered, this game has few redeeming qualities.

In order to bowl, players must first grab the ball, choose a spot on the floor, and then perform an awkward maneuver involving the use of as many as four different keys on the keyboard. Despite the fact that the interface appears to allow players to place spin on the ball, every shot thrown makes a straight line down the lane. The straight-ahead shots allow for little pin action and few strikes.

Unless players choose to insert a music CD into their CD-ROM drives, they won't be hearing music. Plus, the pace of the game is excruciatingly slow. There are goofy animations and shots of the scoreboard between every shot and no apparent way to bypass them. Of the three games included in this compilation, ProBowl 3D is definitely the weakest. Play a few frames, and then move on quickly.

ProPool 3D is the billiard offering in 3 Pack. While it's not the best pool simulation available for the personal computer, it is much better than its bowling counterpart. ProPool 3D is visually simple. There are four different pool environments in which to play, but the action is the same in all of them. The balls and cues have a bit of texture, but this is primarily a two-dimensional game with occasional forays into 3D.

The sound in ProPool 3D is average. It's composed of generic billiard sounds -- a cue striking the cue ball, balls striking each other -- accompanying whichever music CD the player chooses to insert into his or her CD-ROM drive. Occasionally, the game tosses in some random crowd noise, but the placement is sporadic and seems to follow no particular sequence of events.

ProPool 3D is enjoyable as pool games go, but the action is far too inconsistent. In single-player games, computer opponents are either completely inept or amazingly skillful. Players can never be sure if they are facing a drunken yahoo in a bar or Minnesota Fats, so chances of winning more than a handful of games are slim. ProPool 3D's control interface is also a bit clunky. It is difficult to get the power of each shot down, so balls will usually fly at alarming rates of speed, erasing the player's ability to make accurate shots.

Dart Pro is a fun little dart game with a few minor bugs. There are few dart simulations available for the PC, so it is difficult to contrast Dart Pro with contemporary games. Visually, Dart Pro is straightforward. There is a board. There are darts. Not much else is needed. The dart animation is good but not great. The darts fly and fall without regard for things like gravity or realistic velocity.

Of the three games in 3 Pack, Dart Pro's sound is the most annoying. The noise consists of ambient bar crowd noise with incessant lame comments from invisible onlookers with heavy Boston accents. Turn this feature off to make the game more palatable. Dart Pro does score some enjoyment points, because it is a decent way to get practice in the ways of scoring various forms of darts popular throughout the world. Unfortunately, there is a bug in Dart Pro that causes the scoring system to break down occasionally, making it impossible to finish games.

Single games are fun in Dart Pro, but tournament action is inconsistent for the same reason the billiards simulation is inconsistent: the bipolar nature of computer opponents who are either too weak or too strong. Tournaments are nearly impossible to win, and therefore barely worth playing. Overall 3 Pack is a below average collection of pub games that will ultimately fail to please. None of the games are good individually, and putting them in the same collection was a mistake. ~ Anthony Baize, All Game Guide

Review: Graphics

The games in this collection feature lackluster graphics and animation. All of the visual presentations are behind the curve for games released in 1999. ~ Anthony Baize, All Game Guide

Review: Sound

The sound in all three games is annoying and low-fi. The CD player option is good, but the ambient noise in the games ruins the aural landscape. ~ Anthony Baize, All Game Guide

Review: Replay Value

It is doubtful that gamers will rush to their computers to play this game after initial play sessions. Playing these games once is hard enough. Replaying them is torture. ~ Anthony Baize, All Game Guide

Review: Documentation

There is very little documentation included with the game. ~ Anthony Baize, All Game Guide

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