Bass Championship

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Championship Bass is a Sports game, developed by TOSE and published by Electronic Arts, which was released in 2000.Product Description Championship Bass takes PlayStation fishing to new depths! It is an intricately detailed, realistic bass fishing game and the first fishing title to incorporate level-based gameplay. Challenging for beginners and seasoned anglers, these bass jump, shake, and roll to throw the lure. The dynamic camera movement features simultaneous above-water and underwater views where players can see the fish and tease them to strike. Play in either professional bass tournaments or just fish recreationally using your choice of fishing lures, rods, and reels. Amazon.com Ready to go fishin'? Championship Bass from EA Sports is a great catch--even for non-anglers. This game is loaded with lures and fishing options like water temperature, time of day, time of year, water color and even how smart the fish are, but it's the fish fights that are truly remarkable. Depending on the size of your catch, battles with bass can last 20 minutes or more as you raise and lower the rod, let the reel spool free, and tighten it in to bring home your catch. We recommend using an optional fishing-rod controller for even more realism. With four sweeping lakes to tackle, players have plenty of locations to search for the big one. Tournament and career modes pit gamers against computer fishermen as they try to catch the heaviest five bass within a set time limit. Bluegills and catfish also fill the lakes, but it's the big bass that players will be after. --Robb GuidoPros: Go anywhere--lakes are full of bass Great fish fights Lures galore Cons: Landing a bass can be painful, especially if you're using the wrong lure No two-player mode Review It has not been a good week for Cid, the Siamese fighting fish that sits in front of my television. He has watched in horror while I've reeled in his brethren, screaming such trash-talking phrases as "Who's your daddy now!" and "Mmm, you'd look good with some tartar sauce." The cause of Cid's angst is Championship Bass, a slightly flawed but convincingly realistic bass-angling simulation. Although the game fails to make a good first impression due to graphics and control glitches, its great features - such as lake exploration via boat, an underwater camera, and accurate fish behavior - make up for those flaws. The game breaks down into four main modes: fishing trip, career, tournament, and challenge. Fishing trip is the equivalent of a practice mode, while the career and tournament modes pit you against unseen opponents in a timed race to catch the heaviest bass. The challenge mode offers a series of timed levels. You advance after completing the objectives in a given level, and beating certain levels or modes unlocks hidden lakes or lures. While some games use prerendered backgrounds and fixed fishing locations, this game offers huge lakes that can be explored via a boat you pilot. While exploring, you have the option of toggling on an underwater camera to find fish. This camera works far better than conventional underwater sonar - and you will begin to appreciate its effectiveness while playing. These two unique features give the game an edge on some of its competitors. However, at its root this game follows the timeless angling tradition: Pick bait and reel, cast bait, wait for bite, reel in, repeat until beer belly growls for dinner (beer belly optional). Fortunately, this game helps deaden the boredom somewhat. In addition to the free-exploration option (so you don't have to sit in one place forever), game time in most modes has been compressed - meaning five hours of game time is equivalent to an hour of real time. This gives the game a faster pace. More importantly, the fish act wholly realistic (based on my real-life fishing experiences) and require active attention. Perhaps I just need to get outside more, but I found myself getting sucked into the nuances of how finicky these fish were. Everything matters: type of bait, where the bait's dropped, and how the bait moves unde

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