PlayFish announces "Poker Rivals" for Facebook
Playfish, the company recently purchased by Electronic Arts is getting ready to roll out a brand new Texas Holdem Poker Game for Facebook called Poker Rivals. Playfish is looking to challange long time established texas holdem games Zynga’s Texas Holdem application with a unique and flashy interface and by adding a virtual life aspect to the game, where players can build homes, buy yatchs and even vary their physical avatars’ movements at the poker tables.
Zynga’s Texas holdem game has managed to hold the #7 spot on Facebook’s top 25 applications list, with nearly 19 million users, so there are no shortage of poker players in online social networking sites. Playfish’s new Poker Rivals application seems to be aimed straight at this demographic.
Eventhough the game is till in beta, visually it looks great and the play is very smooth. Using their facebook poker chips from the game, players can buy clothes and jewelry to customize their avatars looks. Poker Rivals also allows you to tag players according to their play style, a great feature that lets you keep track of rival’s playing styles. Poker Rivals is by the far the most detailed and customizable of the online texas holdem games. Playfish says that more features are being added and tweaked before the official release is scheduled. You can check out the working beta version of the game at this link: Poker Rivals.
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good, f zynga they banned my account earlier and i hope playfish kills their texas holdem game
looks great lets see if they can launch it properly in time to compete against zynga’s poker application, can you buy facebook poker chips in this game too?
looks great lets see if they can launch it properly in time to compete against zynga’s poker application, can you buy facebook chips in this game too?
nice layout, alot nicer than zynga poker but zynga has a big following it’l be hard to best them at this point. but if the game is engaging than it has a chance, I just signed up with playfish’s game tonight lets see how it goes
zinga poker is shit compare to playsfish texas holdem but too many people playing zinga now
yeah it looks great, lets see ift they can get some more players in the game to liven things up, are they still in beta ?
sweet interface but yeah its a little too busy sometimes
I like the options where you can choose your sitting stance, thats kinda different than the interface most other facebook poker games have chosen for themselves. But yea it can be a bit confusing at times but once you get the hang of it you can play poker more comfortably.
This layout is awesome I wonder if its got the juice to take on zynga poker though. Can you buy facebook poker chips in this new application?
I dont think you can just yet, but I’m sure the game makers will offer chips at some point in the future. I’ll keep you updated