Hit it or Quit it?
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| Year: 2012 -- Developer: Pipeworks -- Publisher: THQ |
First impression:
On the back of yesterday's Wheel Of Fortune, I'm going to check out the demo for Jeopardy. Knowing that it's by the same company, Pipeworks, and published by THQ, I expect this really to just be the same as WoF, except a different word game.
That's actually kind of exciting. Yeah, the voices are kind of lame, but I expect decent camera work, a solid presentation of the game, and lots of features I would be excited for, but won't be able to see in the demo. Let's make sure they didn't screw this one up!
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Fooled around for: 10 minutes (1 full game)
Notice the time there.. only 10 minutes for the full game!? The demo didn't even let you run a full board. It only gives you the first two columns. This made for a very short game.
Otherwise, as expected, the game looks like the show. And it looks like WoF. Somehow, I wasn't expecting them to have re-used the character models and sound clips and everything. It looks like the same three people happened to get on WoF AND Jeopardy. WTF?! At least on WoF, I could play a real, full game.
Alex' sound bits were good though. He voices all of the questions and all of the answers. He must not have had much else going on or something, or there really isn't much variety in the questions after a few games. There is a little weirdness when certain bits are spliced together, otherwise without looking, it usually sounds just like him.
Except overall, this really wasn't as fun of an experience as WoF. Had I thought about it, I probably could have expected it. One of the biggest things about "real" Jeopardy is that you either know the answer or you don't. In turning that into a video game, they decided to go multiple choice with it. This means that every now and then you might allllmost know it, and you can just look at the answers and figure it out. That doesn't count!
Also, Jeopardy is harder anyways, of course. This is why I never wanted to be on Jeopardy, but I would totally try WoF. That is, unless I could get on Teen Jeopardy. That might turn out okay...
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| Multiple choice!? |
Hit it or Quit it?
Considering they dumbed down one of the most important aspects of this game, and it's usually too hard for me to have fun being in control, I definitely would be quitting this. Especially since if I bought this AND WoF, it would mostly feel like playing the same game with all of the similar assets. They should have just bundled the two games together, and more people would probably end up playing this. As it is though, quit it.
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