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"From Sony studios in Burbank, California....it's JEOPARDY!"

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 31 / 31
Date: November 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Offering the most realistic adaptation of Jeopardy you can get, Atari faithfully re-creates the game in complete detail. Besides the fact that you can play alone and with others (much more fun this way), some other mildly interesting options were thrown in the mix.

Players can take sample exams that are given to prospective contestants vying to be on the show. Although not connected to game play, it will surely test your basic knowledge. During your progress through the game, your statistics will be recorded to include wins and losses, total earnings, best and worst game scores, and your totals of correct and incorrect answers. After achieving a specific amount of winnings, you qualify to participate in Tournament of Champions contests.

Although Jeopardy doesn't have difficulty settings as to the trivia questions, they're not really needed. There is a nice mix of questions that range from relatively easy to moderately challenging. For those looking to gain an outright advantage from the start, you can adjust the buzz-in time, response time, and computer I.Q. in the options area.

The game designers appeared to have a good plan in mind when they put this game together and it all flows pretty smoothly. Aside from a couple of slow load screens and a mildly annoying full motion video clip of Alex Trebek jumping in and out between question selection screens, game play is straightforward and fun. My only reservation with Jeopardy is the listed 5,200 or so answers. If you play for long, consistent periods of time, you're bound to see repeats of the same categories sooner than you'd like. So far, I'm happy to report that after playing the game with my wife for many hours (we're trivia hounds), we have yet to see any repeated categories or answers.

Jeopardy is quite entertaining and is recommended to anyone who likes trivia and thinking games and, of course, to those who are fans of the game show itself.

Best JEOPARDY! Game Ever, Buy NOW!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Ok. If you look at my Wheel Of Fortune review, I'm not happy with Artech's (the Designer) work.

Apparently they were spending all their time in Jeopardy! This is the best. The new set look is there, and everything is dead on. Even the Category Showing sequence looks exactly like the show. It's great! Looks good, acts good, and overall is the best JEOPARDY! game anywhere.

Great Job Artech/Atari!

Pros:
Looks Great
Plays Great
Sounds Great
Faithfully Puts the Show on your TV

Cons:

Ok, so there's one little bug in which you hear the "Daily Double" sound effect before Final Jeopardy!, no big deal.

Buy it now. Worth every penny.

Total pain

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The game itself is okay as far as the questions and stuff, but theres something wrong mechanically with the buzzers......and you get something wrong if you don't spell it almost exactly. Oh, and Trebec is soooooo annoying!

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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 25
Date: December 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

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11 stars in my opinion

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you have a ps2 and you or a family member enjoys the jeopardy tv show you cannot go wrong with this game its great

Not worth the money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: January 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

In my opinion, this game is badly designed. Atari have put no effort into this. There are too many "glitches." I don't know how a previous reviewer can state that he has "yet to see any repeated categories or answers." My husband and I encounter repeated categories/answers every time we play, which is definitely getting less frequent!

Another problem is a question being judged "incorrect" when it is obviously correct. This happens nearly every game.

The game is worth about $10.

Sorry, Alex.

Character selection and misspellings

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: January 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have enjoyed Atari's version of Jeopardy for years and was excited when they came out with a version for PS2. I purchased it and was dismayed with two aspects of the game.
The first and biggest problem, in my book, is that with all the technological capabilities of PS2, there is no character selection. Other versions have you, the player, choose to be male or female and sometimes different races and clothing options. There was nothing like this with PS2's version. You can either choose a cheesy symbol or draw your own.
The other problem is the spelling accuracy aspect is inconsistent. You can accidentally, or on purpose, put "ton" instead on "tion" in words like action or constitution and have it be incorrect but blatantly misspell other things and have them be correct.
Also, be careful when typing in an answer. I had a problem where the answer asked for a type of "tape" and I typed the question to be "what is duct?" but it was marked incorrect, so answer each question completely, no matter how tedious (e.g. duct tape).
Good luck but I would not pay the $30 for it if I had known, so wait until you can get it cheaper or at a used dealer.

All these other negative reviews are just way off...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: April 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This PS2 version of Jeopardy is great fun, and worth every penny. There are hundreds of categories, and yes some do repeat more frequently than others, but then it becomes a good test of one's memory. The spelling accuracy of your responses can be adjusted in the options menu, and you can save multiple careers (players) by writing your name or choosing from a selection of designs (who cares about choosing a character? It more directly engages you this way, instead of designating you as a "puppetmaster".) My wife and I have become junkies, and you'll be sucked in by it's seductive intellectual appeal, too. This is perhaps the best game-show to video-game conversion I've ever seen. I also recommend Atari's "Wheel of Fortune", but this is the superior of the two. Now go get JEOPARDY! and discover just how smart you are!!!

Unfortunately, a waste of money

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: April 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have to say that I was really hyped about getting this game. To be short, it's the worst game I have ever bought. It is probably the "cheapest", "garbagey" game I've seen since owning a PS2. Try renting first...you'll see what I mean.

Fun but frustrating

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The kinks definitely need to be worked out of this game. The concept and graphics are top-notch, but there are some very frustrating aspects to it. The "judging" programming needs help, since several of my answers were correct, yet were ruled incorrect, for reasons which were not always clear. Players must be spot-on with their spelling of words, due to the fact that the computer judge is extremely literal (e.g. "first star" was not allowed for the answer to "Twinkle, twinkle." "Star" was the correct answer). Also, the spelling prompt at the bottom of the screen actually allows for unintentional "cheating", if you will. That is, I had intended to type in the answer "Sheldon," when actually I meant "Shelley." Once I saw Shelley on the prompt screen, I buzzed in with it. I have no doubt version 2 will be far better, but until then...

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