Aces Spades

I used to love playing this game. It used to help me with my anxiety. But now they have changed the game so that it is frustrating and not worth playing! They made the game now so if you play solo and start to pull away in points the other AI player automatically starts using blind nil so that when they loose you can’t accumulate points anymore because after a couple of times of the AI players doing that the game ends with you only accumulating less than 100 points. I also noticed that I get more hands worth no points but you can’t go nil because they give you just enough higher cards. The idea is to use your choices to either trade cards for money you earned or get a whole new deal that cost you 30 credits. The problem with this is you only get so much per day and yo end up running out before the week is up because that’s how long you get to complete to see at what position you in. I think it goes 1st through 50. But you will never break top 10 unless you pay money. Also I noticed that it times how long the game should take you? I just know that after playing, quite a bit of the time I had to wait 10 minutes or more to play again or watch commercials to get one minute knocked off your time. So you can either watch 10 minutes worth of commercials or pay to be able to play sooner. This game has become quite frustrating as you just can no longer just play for fun! To many hoops to jump through just to play! I guess now all these games are less about you enjoying the game and more about the money! Don’t waste your time! It’s too frustrating to play now I play less and less as I now can’t stand what they have done to such a great game!

AI players (in single player) seem to always know which suit you are a little heavy in and just zero in til you go bust. If this happened incidentally I’d say it is just the luck of the draw. Enough comments have already been made about the AI partner not really having your back and having an insatiable appetite for Sand Bags. Really, who actually plays this way? Other than those nagging issues, I like the game and try to anticipate and play against the aforementioned anomaly’s. Hope it gets fixed someday but hey, whad’ya want for a couple of bucks?

First, I’ll start by saying the graphics and animations are Great! However the game play itself is very deceptive with scoring and awarding the booked hand. You bid your hand, you make your book, and the opponent is awarded your book after you’ve clearly won that hand. Example: Hearts lead (played by the opponent or even myself),everyone plays a hearts except for my AI partner or myself who cuts with a spade ( due to no hearts)...why is the hand then given to the the wrong team ( the book in this case should go to the player who cut with the highest spade, if that’s what was played to win the book). The game awards the book to the wrong team, the system seems to not recognize the sequence of players and who actually should be awarded the book based on who played which card and the value of that card. Not to mention the other problem of seriously reneging. The developers placed a lot of emphasis on graphics, which is Wonderful. Maybe now they can work on the integrity of the game with proper scoring and awarding of the books. Once this is done, you will have an exceptional product.