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Ultimate Cards, would by it’s very name, seem to imply that one could expect the card game to end all card games. Sadly this title, while having its good points, just doesn’t live up to such a boast!
Most card games offer the standard fare of Poker and Solitaire, with all the variation there of. Ultimate Cards, however, opts to go with more eccentric card games, including Spades, Hearts, Gin Rummy, Oh Hell!, Whist, and Crazy 8’s. After all, how many solitaire games do you need?
Thankfully the rules to each game are provided and there is a learning feature as well that will suggest the best card to play until you get the hang of the game.
Ultimate Card also offers a selection of opponents to play, ranked from Average to Expert. They are present graphically only during the configuration screen, which is not a bad thing considering how poorly the digitized images are done.
You never see the opponent images during game play, but you can choose to hear them. Each character as a few things to say when they are forced to pass, or if the win or lose, done in their own voice, as it were. The sound can be turned off, but the chat was so infrequent that it doesn’t interfere. There is no music for the game.
The games are varied and fun, the AI is good enough, and the graphics are suitable for a card game. Ultimate may not be the best adjective to describe the game, but it is still a collection worth having.
Unzip the contents into a temporary folder. Map a drive using SUBST from a Command prompt. For example: SUBST G: C:TMP, where C:TMP is where the game files are. Change to the mapped drive and install from there. Once installed copy and run the CRACK.EXE (once only) before playing.
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