"Actua Pool" inherits the name from the Actua sports series, which in the nineties covered disciplines like soccer, golf, or snooker on PlayStation and PC. In its jump to Nintendo DS, pool is played by aiming and calculating the shot with the stylus, with different rule variants for quick matches.
It arrives at a point when the console already had several pool simulators to choose from, so its appeal mostly depends on nostalgia for the Actua brand. For anyone looking for a straightforward tabletop pastime, it still delivers.
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