The game's presentation is very pleasant. It sports a stylish design with nice, bright colors over a dark background. When you roll the die, your puck will be moved in a different way each time - it will either turn into a UFO, a fly, a bird, or even a Slinky spring toy!
These cute animations are fun to watch at first, although I admit they get a little slow after you've seen them all and you're just waiting for your turn. In any case, it's a nice touch that I thought was worth mentioning. Also, the game is fairly accessible. It's very easy to pick your answer with the left analog stick and the push of a button.
The music, on the other hand, is not quite as memorable, but it does its job. The commentator is not very engaging either, but I guess you're doomed to have a commentator in a game like this. In this Trivial Pursuit, you can choose to play in three different game modes. As always, there are six categories represented by six different colors.
Of course, you can just select Classic gameplay and call it good. You grew up playing this mode, so I don't have to explain what it's all about. It's a given that everyone has their own house rules, but overall, we're all aiming for the same thing: the six wedges and the final trial in the center of the board. When I played this mode, it took forever to reach the center, so there's definitely a time commitment when you choose to play the classic way.
However, I really liked the diversity of the questions, and the fact that the game has been modernized with current questions that we're more likely to answer correctly, even if we were born in the eighties.
Classic mode with four players. Graphics: 7. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading Written by Philip Witowski September 25, at am. Green and Bavelier, Trine PS3 Review ». Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.
Email required Address never made public. Name required. Pages About Me. Blog at WordPress. Electronic Arts' attempt to bring the hugely popular board game to the home console definitely captures the essence of the original game, packing in a ton of head-scratching questions that will leave savants and scholars alike gasping at their unexpected ignorance. However, though the trivia is as potent as ever, the overall package does little to take advantage of its newfound digital home.
The lack of online multiplayer and the overabundance of geographic questions mean that there is little reason to play this version over any of the cardboard originals, and its high price makes it hard to recommend over comparable video trivia games already released. Canada is easy to miss, all tucked away down there.
There are three game modes in Trivial Pursuit. Classic mode follows the standard rules, where you must accumulate a pie wedge for each category. The ending rules have been tweaked, though, so that the active player chooses the final question category instead of having his or her competitors select it. Using the traditional method, would-be-champions would have to answer questions outside of their comfort zone, creating a tense and satisfying conclusion.
In this version, the last question seems like little more than a victory lap. One new mode is called Clear the Board, a single-player quest to earn the most points while still collecting every pie piece. You can land on each space only one time, so answering a high percentage of the questions is necessary to achieve success. Though this mode is fun conceptually, playing Trivial Pursuit by yourself is lonely. The final mode is called Facts and Friends, and it's a clever spin on the classic formula.
Classic is essentially just the standard Trivial Pursuit board game rules. Clear the Board is a single-player challenge where you attempt to collect all six wedge pieces and answer the final question. The twists are that you earn a point multiplier for every question you get correct, but you can only attempt a question at each space once. Whether you get it right or wrong, that space is now used up and you can't land there anymore. Your game is timed and you're playing for a high score, so you can try to top your score over and over again if that's your thing.
It's a fun mode for when you don't have any friends around. Facts and Friends mixes up the game quite a bit by having each of the players use the same puck. Each correct answer nets you some points towards that wedge, but each wedge can only be owned by one player. So if your friend claims the pink entertainment wedge first, you can't go for that one anymore.
Well, except that the bonus events and betting throw huge wrenches into the mix. You can bet on whether an opponent will get a question right or wrong and earn points for yourself, while bonus spaces which replace the Roll Again slots kick off any number of crazy challenges, included a Wedge Challenge where you can steal another player's wedge that they've already earned. Facts and Friends is actually a really fun way to play the game, and it's much shorter than a regular round of Trivial Pursuit, making it perfect for killing time when you don't have a ton of it.
There are some design choices that I don't think work perfectly however. The big one is that the Wedge Challenge comes up way too often, and the person initiating the challenge is able to steal a wedge from another player, but not the other way around. So really it just puts you at the defense time and time again with no way to actually gain anything when another player starts this.
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