World Championship Poker 2 - Win a copy!

Players who sign up for a new rakeback account through us and earn $200 (or £100) in rake during the month of June will win themselves a copy of World Championship Poker 2 on the platform of your choice (PC, PSP, PS2, XBox360).

Oxygen Games is pleased to announce the launch of World Championship Poker 2.  Set for release on PlayStation®2, PC DVD-ROM, PSP® System and Xbox® 360, the game has already launched in the US to massive critical acclaim and is the clear number one poker title based on aggregated reviews.

With a skill-based system of game play, career mode and multi-player options combined with the most advanced AI in any poker title to-date, World Championship Poker 2 will fast become an essential purchase in the UK and mainland Europe for any aspiring poker shark.

Cited as ‘the most realistic-playing poker game out there’, World Championship Poker 2 is now set for release on the 20th April 2007 across all formats, and the publisher is confident media and consumers alike will not be disappointed by the wait. 

The most real-world poker simulation to date; World Championship Poker™ 2 captures the challenge and intensity of the uncompromising real world game and brings it to the console.  World Championship Poker 2 is scheduled for release on the 20th April 2007 for PlayStation®2 and PC and the 15th June 2007 for for Xbox® 360 and PSP® System

Release:
PS2 & PC – OUT NOW
360 & PSP – 15th June

Product Description

From opening bet to show-down World championship Poker 2 puts you at the high stakes table, bluffing and trying to steal the pot.

Like you’re right across the table from some of the world’s top poker-playing personalities you will need nerves of steel and a stone-cold poker face to make your fortune. Put your stamina and resolve to the ultimate test with World Championship Poker 2.


Come face to face with the legends... Keep your calm and gamble like a pro; make your fortune and become a legend yourself.

World Championship Poker 2 – The definitive Poker Experience

Features (PS2, PSP, PC):

• 14 different varieties of poker, from Texas Hold’em and Five-Card Stud to Deuce-to-Seven Triple Draw and Razz.
• In-game character likenesses, play styles and iconic signature personality traits of seven of the best professional poker players.
• Featuring: Howard Lederer, Annie Duke, Greg Raymer, Amir Vahedi, Paul Darden, Clonie Gowen, and Robert Williamson III.
• Continuous career mode that simulates the career choices of an emerging poker pro.
• Dynamic bluff and tell system now expanded to include player versus player interactions.
• AI opponents with dynamic personalities, player controllable taunts, bluffs and tells.
• Commentary by Matt Savage
• Play third-person “TV” mode or switch to first person to watch your opponents for signs of tells and bluffs .
• Eye-Toy support for the PlayStation®2

Additional Features (X360):

• Even more varieties of poker to choose from.
• Multi-Table Online-Tournaments
• Smarter AI that actually “thinks ahead” to challenge players at every move.
• Scenario Mode puts players right “into the Action”
• Compatible with the Xbox Live® Vision
• Additional poker pro’s including: Erin Ness, Marcel Luske and Thomas Bihl.
• Name your game function with poker rule customization
• Even more game environments
• Web-cam support.

About Oxygen Games
Oxygen Games boasts a broad range of fun & sociable titles to capture the imaginations of the emerging games audience. With the focus on all major console platforms, Oxygen’s games are based on mainstream lifestyles and interests, whilst delivering contemporary content featuring sports, music & well known personalities.  For more information please visit www.oxygengames.net

About Crave Entertainment
Based in Newport Beach, California, Crave Entertainment is a subsidiary of Handleman Company. Crave, a publisher of videogame entertainment products creates games for the major console platforms including PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system, Nintendo DS™, Game Boy® Advance, Nintendo GameCube™, Wii™, the PlayStation® game console, PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, the Xbox® video game system from Microsoft and the Xbox 360™ video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. For more information about Crave Entertainment, please visit www.cravegames.com.