When I sat down to try Pool Panic, the person giving the demo described it as "the world's least realistic pool simulator." Yes. That's completely accurate. It's also why the game is actually fun. 

Billiards might be a fun game to play in-person, but in a video game it can feel like a geometrical slog. Pool Panic shakes things up by making every ball on the playing field alive. Want to hit a ball in the corner pocket? Be quick, it might get up and walk away. Each type of ball has personalities too -- some are like wild bears and will attack if your living qua-ball gets too close. Others need to be lured out of trees with food. Some will only let you hit them if they're in a good mood.

Sure, it's a pool simulator, but it's also part-adventure game and part-puzzle game. That's weird. But it works. Then again, it's Adult Swim games, so go figure.