Others say...

"Misleading"
The description on the back of the box reads "Omar Sharif Bridge II offers a game of intricate deliberation, skill and chance for the novice and expert".

I can't decide whether they were talking about the game or the interface to the game. With each click, I hoped that something may happen in the game, but the program just dumped me back out to Windows. The 3D-interface is non-intutive, and overkill for a simple card game.

The box reads "Master card champion Omar Sharif shows you how to improve your game and takes you through the bids." For having a world bridge experts name on the box, one would think that the game would come with a tutorial on how to play the game or an interactive helper but the game fails to provide even this.

"inflexible"
This game is high on video effects but low on player flexibility..I found it difficult to set the game to my playing style and difficult to review a game once played beyond the chart given at the end of the game. This inflexibility, along with meager explanations of conventions used, makes it hard to learn from. Besides this, the cards for the dummy are small (in perspective across the table) and in a shadow, with spades and clubs frequently adjacent (as with hearts and diamonds) so that it is easy to misplay -- and there is no way to correct misplays. The tremendous need for computer power is also a problem. I am ordering Bridge Baron.

"Specification warning"
From the first review item for this product, I can see that they had a problem running the game satisfactorily. The minimum spec for this game is a 700MHz PIII with a DirectX 16meg video card. With this spec, or better, it runs very nicely. This game is designed to combine the latest AI with within a full 3D environment, with fully rendered rooms, cards and 3D lighting. In this respect it is outstanding. If you do not have a PC with this spec, then you should buy a different product. I notice that Gamespot fail to give the minimum requirements. Anyone who bought this product and found their PC did not meet the minimum spec must be entitled to return the product, as Gamestop failed to give the minimum spec (a complaint has been issued to them).

"Powerful new 3D interactive game"
This 3D game is terrific on my new XP machine with a wonderful set of rooms to play in. There is a comfortable home room, a spacious club hall and a championship venue - all quite realistic. Best of all is that the game can be tailored to play at a variety of levels, with different characteristic play styles, so you don't get board with the same old computer play style that other games have. There is also an internet play option, so I can play my club friends. I would have given this 5 stars, but it seems you can only play one other person on the internet version with the remaining 2 seats occupied by the computer characters. It would have been better if all 4 seats could be played by humans.
You need to watch out for the minimum computer specification as its quite high, requiring a 800MHz machine and a decent graphics card with 16MBytes, however my son laughed at this and said that the spec was so low that cavemen had better computers!
Overall I am delighted with the game and it has given me hours of pleasure.


"OMAR SHARIF BRIDGE II"
Unless you have a new, very fast and powerful computer, this game either won't load or will play so slowly, you won't want to play it. Gamestop will not allow a return on already opened games, either. It seems the graphics take up so much memory, you can do much better buying Bridge Baron, which I later purchased and am very happy with it.