Darts Thread

[Stephen Bailey]

Gary Anderson is one of the few players on the planet who can beat Phil Taylor when Taylor is playing well. He won the International Darts League and the World Darts Trophy, both these competitions comprise of BDO and PDC players. Anderson won the World Darts Trophy 7-3 (sets) against Taylor, both players averaged over 100. Anderson beat Mark Webster in the IDL 13-9 (legs) and Webster (BDO World champs no.1 seed) beat Taylor in an earlier round in the tournament. Anderson also got to the semi-final of the Grand Slam of Darts and gave Taylor a huge scare. Taylor won 13-11 and went on to dominate against Andy Hamilton, winning 18-11 in the final (led 14-5 at one point).

I think they said in the BDO WC commentary that Anderson won 7 titles in total in 2007 and he is currently ranked as number 1 by a country mile. Don't let his first round BDO WC defeat fool you.

I have to say the standard of the BDO World Championship is possibly the worst I've seen this year, I can't defend it. Only 5 players (out of 32) in the 1st round averaged over 90. That is compared to the 16 in the 2nd round (last 32 of the PDC) of the PDC WC.

 

[Monty57]

Im hoping they give the wild-card to Wayne Mardle because hes a class player and also hes great fun. Im going for Aderian Lewis for the premier league can see him stealing it.

 

[Stephen Bailey]

Don't know if anyone's seen it, but the latest official PDC darts game is released in a couple of weeks, and here's the demo:

http://www.gamershell.com/download_22723.shtml



Tip: if you have a Xbox 360 controller, plug it in!

 

[Skater]

I have heard of it. If I buy the PS2 game, will it work on my PS3?

 

[evertonfan]

It's highly likely that it will.

 

[Skater]

It's highly likely that it will.

Good. It's just only some PS2 games work on PS3.

 

[evertonfan]

Yeah your right. But all newly released games work on PS3 I think.

 

[King Pietersen]

Pc Version comes out on my Birthday I'm probably guna get it, i didnt get the old one, but enjoyed the demo, i'll probably buy the new one.

 

[Stephen Bailey]

Pc Version comes out on my Birthday I'm probably guna get it, i didnt get the old one, but enjoyed the demo, i'll probably buy the new one.

The old one was far too easy and the career mode was awful. Even from playing the demo, this one seems more polished and quite a bit more difficult.

 

[King Pietersen]

Yeh, i've read that the old one was abit hit and miss, and very repetative. From the reviews i've read from the new one, it sounds good, the graphics arent anything special, but apparently the gameplay is pretty decnet. Looking forward to playing the demo.

 

[Monty57]

Ive downloaded it and the bloody thing wont work because i didnt have the newest direct x and i downloaded the new update and it still says i need the newest update? Might buy the game and if it doesnt work will take it back.

 

[King Pietersen]

I needed to download 2 .dll files, do you get an error message ?

 

[Stephen Bailey]

This was the only one I needed, simply put it in the games' main folder.

What was the other one you needed?

 

[Monty57]

Just downloaded that file you sed but still wont work

 

[King Pietersen]

xinput1_3.dll

put that into google, download and put in C:/Windows/System, i needed both files to run the game on my pc.