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Bar-stool melee from San Andreas, The Lost and Damned, and GTA Online.
The Pool Cue is a tool and a weapon in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, The Lost and Damned and Grand Theft Auto Online, and due to appear in .
The Pool Cue in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is depicted as a full-length cue with a black lower section ("butt") and brown upper section ("shaft"). It is primarily used as a tool to play pool. The in-game model of the Pool Cue was originally a cutscene prop from Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (same as the Desert Eagle), used in the mission Alloy Wheels of Steel. The Pool Cue can be seen used by Mitch Baker and another biker during the cutscene.
In Grand Theft Auto IV, the Pool Cue has in fact been categorized as a weapon alongside other melee weapons, but its use as a weapon was dropped during development. The Pool Cue may still be used to play pool, but cannot be used outside the game, even though it is a functional weapon. It can be obtained via trainers, but it has low details, no HUD icon, and has the same behaviour as the Baseball Bat.
In The Lost and Damned, the Pool Cue is officially added as a weapon into the game, albeit as a halved version. Additionally, pool can still be played. There is also an own full-length cue added in the game, which appears to have better aspect, featuring the halved cue as the lower section of the full-length variation.
In Grand Theft Auto Online the Pool Cue assumes the halved variation seen in TLAD, but has a brighter texture and "OLD GEN" logos on it.
