In the past, the fastest you’ve ever played a game of pool is when a gang of burly tattooed men slam a pile of 50p pieces on the side of the table a second after you’ve started then stared really closely at you throughout your game.

But now here’s Battle Pool, and you’ll have to play much faster than that. In Battle Pool you have to clear a table as quickly as possible while an online opponent does the same. Each time you sink one, your opponent has one more ball to pot, and the winner is whoever clears the table first, Battle Pool is fast and frenzied, and the online aspect really adds an addictive quality to proceedings. Or at least it would if we weren’t so crap at it. We’re such girls.

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