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Not as enjoyable as expected...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: May 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

As a fan of trivia games, I was quite disapointed with this one. I had two main problems. The first was the questions were too easy. With the multiple choice format, even with the hard questions it was easy to pick out the right answer. My biggest complaint was the second time I ever played the game, it started to repeat some questions. That happening after only two games in unacceptable!!

Anyways, if you are looking for a more enjoyable trivia game, I feel Jeopardy! is superior.

Unless You Have Online Capabilities Or A Group Of Trivia-Loving Friends, There's Nothing Here For You

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is a review of this product: Trivial Pursuit Unhinged (PlayStation 2 video game). Amazon may display this review on the page of another version of this product, for which this review may not apply. After reading this review, please click on the link so that you can be assured that the product this review applies to is the same one you thought it was for.

(This is a review that I originally wrote on 03/29/2004)
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Although I really dislike the original board game (I find it terminally boring), I decided to rent this game. I figured that since it's a video game it might provide some enjoyment that can't be found in the board game, due to the nature of the formats. Well, I was wrong!

For starters, you can't really play this game with one player offline because there are NO computer opponents. There are three game play modes, and two of them can be played with just one player BY HIMSELF/HERSELF, but where's the fun in that? The game has online play, but I don't have the PS2 Network Adapter, so I couldn't test it out. Online would be the only way to play this with just one player, in my opinion. (As of this writing, I haven't had the chance to gather my friends together for a game.)

GAME PLAY MODES

CLASSIC - 1 to 6 players - Roll the dice and move around the board. If you land on a category space or headquarters, you answer a question in that category. If you were on a category headquarters, and you answered the question correctly, you get a wedge of that color, and you roll again. If you were just on a regular category space and you answered the question correctly, you just roll again. If you answered incorrectly, turn passes to the next player. The first person to get all six wedges, go back to the central hub, and answer the final question, wins the game.

FLASH - 1 to 6 players - You start on level one, and the goal is to get to level six. On each level you get to choose between two question categories. Answer the question correctly and you move up one level. Answer incorrectly and you stay at your current level. Whether you answer correctly or not, your turn is over and the next player goes. The first player to get to level six is the winner.

UNHINGED - 2 to 4 players (each needs his/her own controller) - Same as classic, except you play for points as well as wedges. You get one point for answering a question correctly and you can gain additional points by betting on whether the current player will answer the current question correctly or not. Points can be used to steal other player's wedges, protect yourself from getting one of your wedges stolen, or to choose a new question if you feel that the current one is too hard. Plus there are special spaces on the board that rotate the board, give you double or triple bonus points, let you recycle questions until you get one you like, choose between only two "multiple choice" answers instead of the usual four (called "50/50"), and do other things, too.

Each game play mode has one setting that you can adjust before you start the game. For Classic and Flash, you can choose whether you want to Shout Out the answers to the questions or select from four Multiple Choice answers. Shout Out is just like the traditionally way of playing. You read the question on the screen (no celebrities read it to you), you vocally give your answer, then you press X to see the correct answer. If you were correct, you press X. If you were wrong, you press O. Obviously the game is trusting you to honestly choose whether you were correct or not. This option of answering questions is best used when playing with other people in the room. For Unhinged mode, the only setting you can adjust is how frequently you want the special spaces to appear (low, medium, high, or never).

CATEGORIES/MULTIMEDIA

They are slightly altered from the original board game:

Pink - Arts & Entertainment (Whoopi Goldberg)
Yellow - History (John Cleese)
Orange -Wild Card (John Ratzenberger)
Blue - People & Places (Brooke Burke)
Brown - Science & Nature (Bill Nye the Science Guy)
Green - Sports & Leisure (Terry Bradshaw)
(The black spaces are Roll Again)

I'm rather disappointed by the whole multimedia aspect of the game. The game features six celebrity "hosts". However, you only HEAR them read the questions for their particular category (except if you have the Shout Out option on, in which case you read the question yourself). You never see them at all. The game also boasts multimedia questions, in which you are asked a question pertaining to a still photo, audio clip, or video clip. However, these questions come up very infrequently. Most of the time you'll just get a boring old text question.

MY FINAL ANSWER

This game was designed for only two types of people: single player trivia junkies who have a network adapter and online capabilities, and groups of people who love trivia games. Unless you fall into one of those two categories, there will be absolutely nothing in this game for you. If you absolutely must try this game out, rent it first to see if it suits your needs before you buy it.

Good concept but needs revision

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: April 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I am a big fan of the board game and was looking forward to this game coming out in video game format. I do like the 3 format options and having different voices ask the question. However, I was disappointed in the inability to see where one was at on the board with the constant zooming in and out and rotation of the board. At times, I could not tell what wedges I had acquired and where on the board I needed to direct my pie to obatain other wedges. I could live with the zooming and rotation, but the most disappointment that I received was the fact that questions were repeated often. After just playing the game for a couple of hours, I surmise that 25 percent of the questions which were previously asked were asked again during my total play. This aspect was totally frustrating and disappointing. I would hope that Atari correct this in their next version, if there be one.

Not that Great

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: December 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

My husband and I bought this game about 2 months ago and have only played it one time.I really did not enjoy the format or the questions.It is boring and long(or maybe it just seems long because it is boring)!There is a setting for a faster game and it is a little better,but I reccomend Jeopardy over this game anyday.Also you can get it for a lot better price,just look around.

Stick to the board game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: August 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Nice version of the board game, but might as well stick to the board game

Great Idea for a Classic Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: April 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was very excited to hear that Trivial Pursuit was going to be coming out for the PS2. I'm an avid board game player and I really enjoy playing classic games over the internet. I've been waiting for someone to finally start developing these games for the PS2.

I have to say that I was not disappointed with Unhinged. The game play is great. There are three modes of play, Classic, Flash, and Unhinged. Classic is what you would expect. Flash is a quick game up a six rung ladder and takes less than 30 minutes to play. Unhinged ROCKS! The twists that they have added to the game are awesome. You can bet if your opponet will get a question right or wrong, and the more points you get, the more damage you can inflict on the other players. You can even steal their wedges.

I've read some reviews that say there are not enough questions and that questions repeat too often. I've played several games and I've run across 2 repeats. With this type of game on this type of platform, it would be impossible to not run across repeats. But unless you are playing the game day in and day out, who's going to remember all those answers?

Bottom line, the game is fun and Trivial Pursuit fans will like it. It's a good price as well. It would be great if you could download additional questions, but you can't. Pretty much that is the only negative I can say about it. Get this game if you are a Trivia fan.

Trivial Pursuit gets a major face lift!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: March 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Atari really pulls out all the stops in this new and exciting look at one of the most successful trivia games ever produced. If you're a fan of the classic version of trivial pursuit, it's faithfully reproduced here but if you're looking for something different, you are going to love the blown out style of game play in Unhinged mode. Actually, there are three play modes consisting of Classic, Unhinged, and Flash Mode (a trivia race up a ladder for multiple players).

Classic and Flash modes are pretty straightforward but forget everything you know or think you know (almost) when playing Unhinged mode. The game board itself, graphics and all, are totally transformed and offer new spaces which include Board Rotation, Teleport, Random Category, 50/50, Recycling, Sticky, Bounce, Double/Triple Bonus Points, and All-Wedge. And if that isn't enough, you earn bonus points to purchase special moves and you can also place bets in regards to the outcome of your opponent answering questions correctly or incorrectly.

Not content with reading the trivia questions yourself? No problem. Celebrity voices do it for you. Here's your supporting cast and the categories they read from: Whoopi Goldberg on Arts & Entertainment, Terry Bradshaw on Sports & Leisure, John Ratzenberger covers the Wild Card category, Brooke Burke hits you with People & Places, Bill Nye (the Science Guy) is all over the Science & Nature topic, and John Cleese reads the History questions. Also adding to the fun is a sizable amount of multimedia clues interspersed with the regular questions.

After only a couple of hours of play time, this game becomes seriously addictive and really tests your trivia knowledge. Not too hard and not too easy and very entertaining for sure. A great game for one and all and recommended to everyone.

Great Idea for a Classic Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: April 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was very excited to hear that Trivial Pursuit was going to be coming out for the PS2. I'm an avid board game player and I really enjoy playing classic games over the internet. I've been waiting for someone to finally start developing these games for the PS2.

I have to say that I was not disappointed with Unhinged. The game play is great. There are three modes of play, Classic, Flash, and Unhinged. Classic is what you would expect. Flash is a quick game up a six rung ladder and takes less than 30 minutes to play. Unhinged ROCKS! The twists that they have added to the game are awesome. You can bet if your opponet will get a question right or wrong, and the more points you get, the more damage you can inflict on the other players. You can even steal their wedges.

I've read some reviews that say there are not enough questions and that questions repeat too often. I've played several games and I've run across 2 repeats. With this type of game on this type of platform, it would be impossible to not run across repeats. But unless you are playing the game day in and day out, who's going to remember all those answers?

Bottom line, the game is fun and Trivial Pursuit fans will like it. It's a good price as well. It would be great if you could download additional questions, but you can't. Pretty much that is the only negative I can say about it. Get this game if you are a Trivia fan.

WAIT!!! Before you believe the bad hype---

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 12
Date: April 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Contrary to other reviewers who claim that this game repeats the questions after only a few plays -- it does NOT. All you have to do is make sure you are using a memory card. When playing you must first enter names and pick players. Then save these and/or save the game in mid play. This will keep the orginal players names (and their formerly read questions) in the memory bank. The next time you play the game simply pick the same player or players and the system will remember...and you will have NO repeat questions.
This is alot of fun to play. My wife and son and I all play it together. We learn and have fun doing it. I highly recommend the "Action Mode" of the game -- 100 times more entertaining than regular Trivial Pursuit.
Hope this review helps.

Trivial Pursuit Unhinged

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Love the gam very challenging questons and very well planned. The celebrities are very clear and concise and nice to listen to

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