The Hustle: Detroit Streets
The Hustle: Detroit Streets
The Hustle: Detroit Streets est un jeu de billard développé par Blade Interactive et édité par Activision Value Publishing. Sorti le 26 octobre 2005, il est disponible sur PlayStation 2, Xbox et PlayStation Portable. Le titre appartient au genre du sport et propose aux joueurs de s'immerger dans l'univers du billard sur trois plates-formes distinctes.
La presse a toutefois émis des réserves sur l'expérience proposée. Play.tm a regretté que le jeu n'ait pas su exploiter tout son potentiel pour renouveler le genre sportif, estimant qu'il avait représenté une occasion manquée d'apporter quelque chose de véritablement nouveau au billard vidéoludique. De son côté, Game Chronicles a reconnu une tentative louable de proposer un jeu de billard de qualité sur PSP, tout en soulignant que des temps de chargement prolongés et des procédures de tir maladroites avaient fini par entamer le plaisir de la expérience.
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Critiques de la Presse (Metacritic)
« The Hustle had such an opportunity to finally bring something fresh to the sports genre, especially for pool, something to sink your teeth into, really get involved in. However, as is usually the case, developers seem to cock up, make hideous technical errors and destroy whatever amazing concept for the game that they first had. Waiting through horrendous loading times to play what seems to be a choppy, half-arsed experience is not worth the wait. »
« A valiant attempt at bringing a quality pool game to the PSP, but between the load times and the clunky shot procedures most of the fun is quickly sapped out of this title. »
« The Hustle gets overly cute with its story mode, and the pacing is achingly slow, but the pool itself can be fairly fun. »
« The character models looked pretty good, and really helped add to the "streety" tone that the game was going for. Unfortunately, technical issues got in the way, and for handheld gaming, load times are critical. Pool itself isn't a lightning-fast game, but it's really no fun staring at a virtual table while cut scenes load. »
« I found the game's controls to be unfriendly and unnecessary. I asked myself a couple of times if this should be this difficult. My answer was "no" everytime. »
« It may be slightly too slow and easy for some, but it still has more than enough variety to keep most fans happy. »
« A game that simply doesn't feel right on the PSP. It's slow (and even slower when played wirelessly with a friend), lacks a quick play mode, and has an uninspired story mode. »
« The game is slow-moving and badly lacks atmosphere. [Mar 2007, p.78] »
