PDC World championship darts 2009

*Haggler* · 03-06-2009, 4:29 PM

PDC World Championship Darts 2009 completely rebuilds its Wii Remote throwing method, comes with greatly improved graphics, includes new game modes, new champions to challenge and will hit the shelves in the spring of 2009.

Release date UK Out now
Release date US Tba

YouTube - PDC World Championship Darts 2009 (Wii/DS) - Trailer

DJT75 · 04-06-2009, 10:12 AM

Would be interested to find out what this is like. I didn't buy the last one after it got quite a slagging on here.

Ultima · 04-06-2009, 10:38 AM

2008 was the biggest pile of bug ridden software that I have ever bought but 2009 is the complete opposite. Throwing the dart with the wii remote is now very easy to do, on the easiest setting pretty simple to keep hitting 180's but knock the hardness setting up and it takes more consistant throwing action to hit the trebles.

I love this version.

DJT75 · 04-06-2009, 11:50 AM

How does it work. Can you choose to be a certain player & just do a tour of all the events, a bit like the Tiger Woods games? So it doesn't matter where you finish in the events, you just move onto the next one

Ultima · 04-06-2009, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by DJT75

How does it work. Can you choose to be a certain player & just do a tour of all the events, a bit like the Tiger Woods games? So it doesn't matter where you finish in the events, you just move onto the next one

Not 100% sure yet......been playing it for a few days but just doing exhibition games and not played any tournaments yet.

I'll have a gander when I get home tonight and work out how it works. I'll post here later tonight or tomorrow when I know more.

Ultima · 05-06-2009, 8:08 AM

Didn't get chance to have much of a play last night but did have a look at the what modes are on offer. There is a career mode where you can play as one of the professional darts players (Taylor, Barney etc......there are most of the big names in there) or you can create a custom player who starts at rank 64 I think.

The career mode lets you practice but it's mainly based around playing in the big tournaments on the pdc curcuit. You start in the US Open, onto the UK Open and through about half a dozen more until you get to the World Championship. I think you carry on as long as you want by the looks of it and start the following season back at the US Open.

I created a custom player who starts at rank 64 (I think) and played a couple of rounds in the US Open using minimum aiming assistance. Averaged 109.7 in my first game compared to 110.8 when I played as Taylor so no real differnce in ability whichever player you choose. However, I did notice that one or two of the later tournamaments where locked until you achieved a rank of 24 or 12 in some cases. Presumably as you progress you improve your ranking but I didn't get that far.

There is a party games type mode, Exhibition and a general play type mode. Again I've only looked at the Exhibition so unsure about the other modes.

When you play there are all the normal darts statistics available and the commentary from Sid Waddell is the normal constant drivel as expected.

The biggest plus for me is the dramatic improvement in the control system. It's very precise and I didn't suffer one occasion of the throwing action with the remote not being recognised.

Overall I'd give it 8 out of 10 from my limited playing of this game.

Regards

DJT75 · 05-06-2009, 3:20 PM

Excellent, thanks very much for your input.

cheers

**IronGiant** · 11-01-2010, 1:10 PM

Did you just get a copy by any chance?

Dave

DJT75 · 11-01-2010, 1:21 PM

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Originally Posted by IronGiant

Did you just get a copy by any chance?

Dave

Funnily enough Dave. I did!

Morrisons are currently chucking this out for £12.99 & with no sight of a 2010 version I eventually invested. Turns out to be a great game & I've even managed a couple of 9 darters. I highly reccommend, especially at £12.99!