Though I was never forced to restart my PlayStation 3 to get the game to work (I did have to hit the Home button more than a few times though), a normal ten minute period of gameplay was usually met with 30 – 45 seconds of the game just downright freezing, generally when the game auto-saved, which happens very often. Comparing this to Telltale’s The Walking Dead series, Poker Night 2 gave me more issues within the first couple hours than I experienced with all 5 episodes of TWD.
In just three simple words – glitches and freezing. Once you manage to read the tells and figure out when the AI is going to match your bets or fold, things aren’t difficult, but at the end of day, Poker is a game where luck plays a big component. If, like me, you aren’t very good, it will take longer. Since the main goal is to get each player’s special item (Claptrap’s is his VGA) – with obtaining all the unlockables, topping the leaderboards, getting the Borderlands 2 head and skins, and XMB themes being secondary ones – if you’re a good Poker player and manage to win every single Tournament, you could effectively get through most of Poker Night 2 in about 6 – 8 hours. Well, this is really going to depend on your skill level. As far as customization goes, you can change the look of the table, deck, characters, and chips through a handful of unlockables based on each character. You aren’t going to be blown away by the graphics in Poker Night 2, though when it comes to the look of the characters, they look exactly as you’d want them, with Telltale not changing them too much to match this game’s aesthetic. Then, true to form, Max started shooting a gun around, leading Claptrap to say that he’s a little overpowered and might have to be nerfed. One of my personal favorite conversations involved Claptrap inviting Sam and Max over to Gearbox, only to have Sam say that he doesn’t think they’re first-person shooter material. These are (almost) always interesting and can range from Sam getting asked why he wears pants to GlaDOS just down right insulting anyone at any given time with whatever they’re talking about. To help keep the act of playing Poker from getting too boring, each of your opponents will begin to tell stories in the match that can carry throughout an entire hand. Once you get into the game, you are given your cards, then you go through the usual tropes of calling, checking, raising, and trying to read the other player’s bluffs. Starting at the beginning, the rules are humorously explained in a way that even a beginner can understand them.
When it comes to the actual Poker side of things, it works as well as you’d expect, not adding anything to the formula, but not doing anything to mess it up. In Poker Night 2, you play Poker (Texas Hold ‘Em or Omaha) at a table featuring Brock, Claptrap, Sam, and Ash, with GlaDOS dealing the cards. Since each character is so unique and brings their own flavor to the table, it’s hard to pick my absolute favorite (GlaDOS and Claptrap are in the front though), but it’s easy to pick Sam as my least favorite due to him not being very funny at all.
#POKER NIGHT AT THE INVENTORY 3 CAST SERIES#
Brock Samson from The Venture Bros TV show, Claptrap from the Borderlands games, Sam from the Sam & Max series is at the table while Max is sitting nearby, Ash from the Army of Darkness movie, and GlaDOS from the Portal games.
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