Before trying Hustle Kings, my only experience with a pool game was Sharkey's 3D Pool, which I played a lot during the MS-DOS days. I had a great time with Sharkey's 3D Pool, considering it was a fun game for its time. Hustle Kings, on the other hand, is a more polished pool game with better graphics, which is expected given the significant time difference between the two games (Sharkey's 3D Pool is from 1989 and Hustle Kings is from 2009. They are a significant 20 years apart). While Hustle Kings didn't captivate me as much as Sharkey's 3D Pool did, it's still worth playing and sinking a few shots.

The difficulty curve primarily comes in the form of your assists being gradually diminished over the course of the career, rather than simply from the AI playing better. As such playing the game becomes increasingly irritating the further you get, and I personally found myself stonewalled on one event in particular- it takes place on a pink table where the objective was simply to pocket three balls in as few shots as possible.

It's a shame too because aside from this one snag Hustle Kings was overall a really smooth take on pool, touch controls and all.