Crazy Eights 3D Premium Reviews

fun game

Fun game!

Fun game.

Great immersive experience!

There is no local play.

I am a huge fan of crazy eights.. I grew up with it, and as an adult, I play it whenever I get the chance.. so I was so excited to see this game in the works.. Ive been literally checking the status of this game once a week (or more) for the past 2 months in eager anticipation.. I finally saw it was released... but now.. I wish the team would have waited longer.. I'm not sure how this got out the door.. just in the first 5 minutes I encountered a ton of bugs and issue.. but let me first talk about the good parts :) 1. ) The on screen 3D graphics are very nice.. the table, the cards.. the scene in the background, all top notch. 2. ) Animations are great, the flow of the card play feels very natural and organic. 3. ) The options of card backs, and card "fronts" is done very well and look exactly as you'd expect 4. ) The music.. is.. a good attempt :) I would honestly rather they utilized more meditative, relaxing music that was less pop'y, or at least fit the setting to which you are playing, but all in all, is fine. So Now the Cons... 1. ) First of all.. resolution.. I have a large monitor that uses a 3840x2160 size.. first of all the game didn't suggest using it, so i pushed it up anyways.. once applied I could only see about 30% of the screen and the rest was off the screen AND the cursor didn't line up with the buttons so I had to drift in magic space and wait for the game to highlight what my mouse was over to get things back to normal (no "did these settings apply correctly.. resetting in 30 seconds").. So I went back to what the game recommended. The game play space was locked to the lower left portion of the screen but worked.. So then I decided Ill switch to "windowed mode" hoping it would get things back in line.. which it did.. roughly.. but the game doesn't use a true "windowed" mode.. its a mini full screen that you have to use the in-game "move" function to move the window.. O.o ... serious? 2. ) Card type... So for some reason.. the card type defaults to an UNO style card face.. Maybe I've been out of the crazy eights community too long to know what the norm is., but in my crazy eights was played with regular cards.. but lets put all that aside., my personal preference is to use regular cards.. so thankfully in the settings you can choose to set this back to normal cards.. HOWEVER.. after a round is completed.. the cards revert BACK to UNO cards.. so in essence.. every time you start a match you have to go back to setting and reset.. super frustrating.. 3. ) Crazy Jacks.. This may be another result of me not keeping up with the crazy eights community.. but last I checked.. the game was called crazy eights.. to my understanding that means when someone plays an eight you get to choose a new suit for the group to play on.. HOWEVER.. in this version of crazy EIGHTS.. apparently the Jack is crazy instead.. maybe I'm just picking the wrong game type.. so this may just be me.. idk. All in all., a nice step forward towards a great crazy eights game., but this feel VERY premature.. idk what testers they have, but there is a TON of basic things that seem to have been missed for the first release.. I truly hope the team will continue to make this experience the best it can be. I will definitely be waiting excitedly to see what it can become.

[list] [*]100% recommended. [*]This is the best version you will find for PC of this great and wonderful game from Crazy Eights. [*]It contains many ways to configure options and game rules, as well as customize the game. [*]Excellent graphics and great music. [*]Super fun to play with friends and family. [/list]