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Overall Excellent Game With A Couple Shortcomings
Pros: SolSuite 2007 has possibly the best card graphics of any current solitaire game including extra large high-res card sizes (the only way to go with large, high res monitors) and an outstanding selection of high quality card sets and card backs (recently improved again in v7.11). There's also lots of backgrounds to chose from. Detailed game win/loss statics complete with graphs is also impressive. Of course, the huge selection of games and game variations is SolSuite's strong suit if you'll pardon the pun.
Cons: On the down side, sound lags behind the rest of the game and is obviously a low priority for the developers. SolSuite sounds are long overdue for an update. This wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that you can't even select your own sounds for events! Default sounds can only be enabled or disabled. One kludgey workaround is to overwrite files SolSuite uses with sounds you prefer. Forget about something as "advanced" as sound themes or background music - even though sound is at least as important as backgrounds or skins.
A more minor disappointment is the Game-Won/High Scores dialog which looks and sounds like it was developed in Windows 95--including the original Win95 tada.wav sound. You've got to be kidding! And what are all those fake player names and scores doing in the list??
Posted: 17-Nov-2007 08:53:48 AM
