Review TheTheory 3/5 · Sep 16, 2017
TellTale's second Poker Night game is exactly what you'd expect if you played the first one: A maddening, offline-only poker game that skates by on pure atmosphere. After all, where else can you play poker with Ash (of Evil Dead fame), Claptrap (Borderlands), and Brock (The Venture Bros)? Where else can you get commentary and criticism (and cards) from GlaDOS …
TellTale's second Poker Night game is exactly what you'd expect if you played the first one: A maddening, offline-only poker game that skates by on pure atmosphere. After all, where else can you play poker with Ash (of Evil Dead fame), Claptrap (Borderlands), and Brock (The Venture Bros)? Where else can you get commentary and criticism (and cards) from GlaDOS (Portal)?
On the downside, the actual poker play is... iffy. And while the character commentaries start off hilarious and worth the price of admission, once you start hitting repeated conversations and stories, it gets pretty tedious.
But I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for this, even though much longer than an hour in the game at any one sitting would make me throw my controller through the TV.