Then let me tell you what you just bought: The best four-player party game ever made. It's hilarious, witty and will provide hours upon hours of good times. What's more, this PS version feels right on the system--it's not a half-assed port. And if you don't have a multi-tap, go back to the store and buy one of those as well. The hugely successful and wildly addictive trivia game show You Don't Know Jack will be out for the PlayStation this fall.
If you're not familiar with this "Irreverent Quiz Show Party Game" as described by its creators , it's a one- to three-person trivia contest, set up in a game show environment. But this isn't your average Alex Trebek-hosted dealie. This game is truly wild, and it's hosted by a very funny, smart-mouthed and sarcastic S.
He'll tease you. He'll mock you. He'll occasionally force you to answer a question, even when you didn't buzz in. Most of all, he'll make you laugh your head off. What other legitimate game show host would gauge your performance by saying, "Let's see how you did. The voice work in YDKJ is amazing, and everything streams off the CD nicely the early beta we received had no noticeable load times at all.
Even more impressive is how live and spontaneous everything is. If you guess the wrong answer, the host may point out why you were stupid in picking out that specific response. If you decide to skip the instructions, the host will comment on how impatient you are.
If you take too long to enter your name on the high score list, you might hear, "Pick up the pace or else I'm going to do it for you. You are now known as 'Kumquat. It will also have special question types like jack Attack words will flash on the screen and you have to buzz in when you see a match, like "elephant" with "Babar" , DisOrDat you have to choose whether the word you see belongs to one category or the other, like whether "Burundi" is a Star Wars character or someone belonging to the African Nation or ThreeWay you have to pick one of three items that matches the clue up top, like deciding who among Moore, Connery or Brosnan starred in The Man With The Golden Gun.
If you get one irreverent quiz show party game this year, make sure it's You Don't Know Jack. Trust us. It's a blast. Oh and by the way, the answer to that question up at the top is joe Rvbicki, deputy editor don't ask us what that means of Official U. PlayStation Magazine. You can find a demo of YDKJ in one of his upcoming issues. The irreverent quiz show finally debuts on the PlayStation. What makes YDKJ legendary, however, isn't the questions, but its sarcastic commentary and whimsical humor, both of which flow through the entire game.
Up to three players can match wits, answering questions over two discs. Testing your brain power and not knowing jack may prove to be the most intellectual occupation this September.
The best party game for the PC is finally making the leap to the PlayStation. An irreverent quiz show, You Don't Know Jack tests your knowledge of pop culture and haute culture with hilarious results. The smack-talking host poses gut-bustingly funny questions, such as stumpers about sexual reproduction that involve Pearl Jam song titles. Barring any mishaps as the PC port transitions to the console, this game's addictive, fast-paced action should make Jack a PlayStation star.
Browse games Game Portals. He explains your keyboard assignments, then you're launched into the game proper. Each player has an assigned key that's analogous to the buzz-in button you've seen on TV game shows. Two players are assigned keys at each end of the keyboard; a third player gets a key in the middle I played a three-player game on a laptop once, and it was a bit cozy.
It's a quiz-show format, with ultra-hip and sometimes cryptic questions and categories. Sample category: "Dirty Dancing and Flightless Birds. The winner of the previous question gets to choose the next category. It takes a bit of experience to be able to even partly decipher the meaning of the categories before you see the resulting question.
Once someone chooses a category, the question pops up'both in text form, and read aloud by our oh-so-hip host. There's a lot of voice in this game. You buzzed in before I finished reading the question! Well, let's see if you can just type out the answer for us! I was surprised when I found out that the actor playing the host changed from YDKJ to YDKJ2, since he sounded nearly the same there's a bit of chatter in the intro implying that the new host is a cousin of the previous host.
In classic game show tradition, you make money for every question you answer correctly. Some questions are timed, with the payoff growing smaller as time passes. Conversely, you lose money with wrong answers. At the beginning of the game, you're given some Screws yep, they're actually represented as little floating woodscrews. These allow you to If a question pops up that is just impossible, you can buzz in and hit the "S" key S for Screw which will force your opponent to take a stab at the question.
If they answer wrong, there goes some cash. One of the nicest aspects of the original game was the music, and that's one area that disappointed me in YDKJ2. I love you, my question four the question that cares.
It really made the game for us. YDKJ2 makes two changes to the jingles. First, they're shorter. Most of the time, they barely get a melody going before they're gone. I imagine that Berkeley did this to move the gameplay along a bit faster, but I miss the old jingles. Secondly, now there's more than one jingle per question, selected randomly.
I'm sure that this improves the replay value, but I really didn't seem to develop the same familiarity with the new jingles. There are several new question types in YDKJ2. In addition to the usual multiple-choice and rhyming questions, YDKJ2 adds some variations, with varying success.
Probably the least successful type is "Celebrity Collect Call. The call to Home Improvement's Tim Allen was particularly lame.
Other celebrities include such luminaries as Erik Estrada and Florence Henderson both of whom, I assume, would pose questions about chips -- that's a Wheat Thins joke YDKJ2 is as colorful and full of animation as the original. Partygoers with active-matrix-display laptops should note that the bright primary colors used in the game look particularly good on such displays. Watch out for spilled drinks! This game is probably the best way yet invented to justify buying that new fancy-pants surround speaker system for your PC.
The sound has great dynamic range, and literally everything in the game is accompanied by a sound effect. It sounds so good, you'll stop wondering whether the hissing noise in that other game is caused by your sound card. If YDKJ2 sounds so good, why doesn't everything? The documentation is fine and well-written, but you'll probably never need to refer to it. Gameplay is wonderfully self-explanatory, and the game requires no setup whatsoever.
The You Don't Know Jack series makes the ultimate party game. It's incredibly friendly to the non-computer-literate members of your environment. Your spouse may actually bug you to play it. It's a heck of a lot of fun.
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