HOYLE Card Games (2010) |  | From: Encore
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $14.99
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Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 319
Format: DVD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Mac OS X Intel, Windows XP, Mac OS X
Genre: card-playing-game-genre
ESRB: Teen
Media: DVD-ROM
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 17750
Model: 17750
UPC: 705381177500
EAN: 0705381177500
ASIN: B002CMU7V6
Release Date: September 2, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Use HOYLE Face Creator to design your own player | | • | Customize card backs, characters and more | | • | Earn HOYLE rewards to unlock fun game bonuses | | • | 5 new and exciting games! | | • | Large, easy-to-read playing cards and improved game logic |
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Product Description
Feeling lucky? Then pull up a chair and deal yourself in to these exciting card games from HOYLE the #1 brand in family entertainment!HOYLE Card Games 2010 features all of your favorite team-style and solo card games from Old Maid and Canasta to Solitaire and Poker. Learn new games and refine your strategy for hours of card flippin' fun all in the company of the personable HOYLE characters!New & Improved: 5 new and exciting games! Large easy-to-read playing cards and improved game logic New AI characters and personalities New shortcut keys for faster game play Unlock a bonus game with each additional HOYLE 2010 purchase!* BONUS Official Hoyle Rulebook & Strategy Guide included!HOYLE Highlights: Use HOYLE Face Creator to design your own player Customize card backs characters and more Earn HOYLE rewards to unlock fun game bonuses* Does not apply to HOYLE Puzzle & Board GamesSystem Requirements:Windows® XP (Home & Pro) SP3/Windows Vista® SP1¹ Pentium® IV 2.4 GHz processor or faster 512 MB (1 GB RAM for Windows Vista) 1024x768 16 bit color display 64MB VRAM (Intel GMA chipsets supported) 3 GB Hard Disk Space DVD-ROM drive 33.6 Kbps modem or faster and internet service provider account required for internet access. Broadband internet service recommended.² Macintosh® OS X 10.4.11-10.5.6 Intel Core Solo processor or better 1.5 GHz or higher processor 512 MB RAM 64MB VRAM (Intel GMA chipsets supported) 3 GB hard drive space DVD-ROM drive 33.6 Kbps modem or faster and internet service provider account required for internet access. Broadband internet service recommended.² ¹Administrator privileges are required to properly install the program on Windows XP Windows Vista and Mac OS X. ²User is responsible for all Internet access fees and phone charges. Important Installation Note: Please disable and Antivirus and/or Firewall software that you have running before installing this softwar
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 Very Very dissapointing November 20, 2009
DigitalEagle (Minneapolis MN)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this thinking they must have improved the graphics since a few years ago. (The last Hoyle game I had) They even advertised on the box that the cards were bigger so I expected the graphics must have been improved by 2010. It even came on a DVD. Boy was I wrong. What are they developing this game for? Seems like an 1981 IBM PC XT. Doesn't Hoyle realize that most people have better resolution than 640x480 by now? The graphics are the worst I have ever seen on any new game. I can hardly make the cards out the graphics are so bad.
This game is a total waste of money. Free games off of the internet are much better than this.
Hoyle won't be getting any of my money in the future. I was just ripped off for the last time Hoyle!
Hoyle Went Backwards November 18, 2009
BHB (Virginia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Having had two previous versions of HCG, I expected improvement with the 2010 version. WRONG!!! The cribbage board is totally useless, you may as well keep score with pen/paper as you will NEVER spot the scoring pegs. In Canasta, it is very important to know the score in order to know what meld is needed. In the 2010 HCG, the score is nowhere to be found during the playing of the hands so I suppose you once again need pen/paper at hand in order to know the score. Also, having to click/drag the cards is very tiresome, particularly since we used to simply right click. I WOULD NEVER RECOMMEND THIS TO A FRIEND!!!
 Flaws kill this game November 16, 2009
Big Rob B (CHattanooga, TN)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I like to play card games so when I seen this I decided to give it a shot. After playing it I would suggest to anyone thinking about buying this game to look at other brands and strongly consider them before this one.
It is not that this is a bad game. I play this game a lot and I do enjoy it but the thing I hate about it is that it has a lot of flaws. Some if not most of the flaws should have been caught by someone before the game was released but they were not. The worst insult about the flaws are that most of them could easily be fixed by a patch. If they were to release a patch this would be at least 4 stars instead of 2-3. However there is not a patch for this game and I doubt there ever will be. So if you get this game you are stuck with all the problems it has Here are what I consider to be the major problems
The first problem is that the other players have no common sense at all. For instance in Spades the person before me throws down diamonds. Since I do not have diamonds I throw down a 5 of spades which would trump. The person next to me throws down another diamond card. In this scenario our team would win the trick by my trumping. Anyone normally playing in my partners shoes would if they did not have diamonds throw a weak non-spade suit. However in Hoyle Card Games 2010 your partner throws down a spades higher than yours. The end result is your team still wins the trick but loses a high trump. The above scenario happens in any game that involves partners. That is just one example of the no-intelligence this game is plagued with.
The next and biggest problem in the game is the fact that you can not see a lot of the stuff that is important. In most games you can see the cards or other important things however in a few games you can not. Oklahoma Gin for instance you need to know what the initial card throw in the discard pile was so you will know what you need top go out on and the game shows it. The problem is that is in white text against a light background pretty much meaning you have to knock several times and find out the score you need to go out. Cribbage also suffers due to not being bale to see important stuff. The cards can be read fine but unfortunately you can not see the cribbage board. The pegs are too small and then there is little contrast between slots and pegs I even tried all the other cribbage boards the one I wound up using was not the best but the least worst of them all. Other games like Tarot (which I will talk more about momentarily) are unplayable due to the fact you have to get right next to the screen to find out the value of your cards. In all cases this could be fixed with an option to make things larger but in this game if you are unable to see the screen that is your tough luck.
The third problem is a lot of the games are glitched terribly. The one that comes to mind instantly is Tarot. An example is that it is the person to the left of you's, turn. The card comes from the right, The person across card comes from the left and the person to the right of you comes from the right. You win the trick and the card goes to the person across from you. If the previously mentioned small cards do not turn you off from playing Tarot this will. Skat has flaws with the scoring Another glitch I got in a game was I had to throw down spades so I click the only spade card I had I get an error message that says I must follow suit. I tried this with every other card and still get it so I tried the original spade again and still can not throw it down.
Do not buy this piece of junk! November 13, 2009
David Schmitt (Saint Louis, MO USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I wish I had seen the Amazon reviews before I bought Hoyle Card Games 2010 at a local office products store. My wife had enjoyed an earlier version (2004, I think), but we couldn't find the CD when I updated her machine to Windows 7. After installing the 2010 version and playing with it for awhile, I removed it because of the following problems:
1. It doesn't install in "All Users" mode, so it's only available in the installing account. My wife's computer is in the kitchen and has 4 user accounts for her, me, our daughter, and the grandkids. I had to tediously create shortcuts in each account, pointing to the Hoyle executable.
2. The program requires administrator privileges, but I have the only administrator account on that machine. Therefore, each of the other accounts has to input an administrator password (mine) in order to start the game. This is a gross violation of common-sense security policy, which is especially important on a computer used by grandkids to prowl virus-laden internet sites.
3. As a software engineer, I can tell that this product was created by a software team without any user feedback. They apparently fell in love with some 3D graphics package, and so they used used most of the screen real estate to show off their new-found 3D programming skills by creating complicated backgrounds and useless motion effects. As a result, the cards are ridiculously small, and the program offers no option to enlarge them. Visiting the Hoyle user forum, I found that this is a common complaint, and Hoyle's answer is "Sorry, you can't do that." Even worse, the 3D graphics are rudimentary compared to just about any modern PC action game. The images and motion effects looks like they were designed in the early 1990's.
4. While searching for the earlier Hoyle CD, I came across the old Microsoft Bicycle Card Games disk from the Windows 98 days. It installed and ran on Windows 7 just fine, and although it doesn't have 3D graphics, it is far more pleasant to play than Hoyle 2010.
Today I will return this Hoyle junk to the place I purchased it.
Don't buy this horrible game October 26, 2009
Duffnick
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this game on a whim from Sam's Club. All of these terrible reviews are right on the money except for one thing, they cannot express how horrible this game is with mere words, it must be experienced.
In the Midwest euchre is a very popular game. I have been playing euchre since I was a boy. It would appear that the programmers took a few euchre algorithms mixed it all up in a pot, and puked out this blasphemy that they try to call euchre. The players have no concept of the game. For instance, they might lead the right bower and they pull out the left and the ace, their next play is not to play their king and queen of Trump, rather to lead a queen of some off suit. This usually precludes the team from making two points rather than just one.
If everyone passes in the first round, and it comes to you to choose trump the selection box appears directly over your cards. You have to either remember what cards you have, or each time, drag it out of the way so that you can see your cards.
The score only shows after a hand is finished it is not posted on the board anywhere. So if it's a tight game and you'd like to know what the score is to either go for it or not you're SOL.
To go alone, you must first check a box that says "go alone" and then select the trump, very un-convenient. If you forget, of course your "partner" play along.
All of the other games have their faults also. for instance, in Texas hold-em, once a player goes broke he/she is not eliminated, he/she is replaced with a new player. I thought hold-em tries to eliminate everyone but the winner. Not on this junk game.
Do yourself a favor and steer clear of this POS.
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