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Fun, if you know the answers.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I like this game. the graphics aren't that great but it doesn't limit the fun factor. There is a cool function when you start to input the answers, the computer automaticlly finishes the answer for you. My girlfriend doesn't like it so much because she doesnt know a lot of the answers. I like it, I guess because I know a lot of the answers. Don't tell her I said that!!

4 stars

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Overall not a bad game, just needs updates & Alex says the same thing over and over again

not the real thing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is alright. The first thing that really annoyed me was the fact when you play one player it doesnt give you the answer to the question even if you are wrong. In addition, the computer gives voice recognized answers and you have to type your answers and you have to be exact even if you've changed it in options. Another thing that really irritated me was the fact that the buzzers are retarded.

Good Family Fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The only thing that I can say negatively about this game is Alex Trebec. All his small "cameo" appearances are annoying, and it is nice that you can hit the "start" button to skip them. Also, the computer only seems to answer the top dollar questions, but all in all, a great game.

Save Your Money

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I feel like they could have done a better job with this game- not much fun.

A huge step backwards

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: August 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It's not every day that I advocate video games becoming more derivative, but in the case of "Jeopardy!", I'll make an exception.

I've played a lot of video-game versions of "Jeopardy!", which has gotten easier to adapt as video game technology has improved. In the early 90's, the Sega Genesis version was a nightmare to play, as you had to spell out answers in their entirety with just a D-pad and three easily-confused buttons (for "select letter", "delete letter", and "accept"). Games took well over an hour to play and punished players who accidentally submitted incomplete responses by pushing the wrong button. Worse, there was no way for the cartridge to remember which questions had already been used, so you always risked getting repeat questions, which killed the fun and novelty of the game.

The CD-i version (of all things!) in 1995 was a breakthrough by substantially solving these problems. First, it had a list of "completions", so after entering a few letters of your response, you could see it matching an alphabetical list of possible answers, and just arrow over and pick the completion. This dramatically sped up game play. The other fix was that the game could use the small (8KB?) built-in memory of the CD-i player to log which questions had already been used, effectively eliminating repeat questions. With the copious CD storage, it was also possible to read the questions aloud -- while not necessary, it was a nice touch. The only flaw was that the controller 1 had a clear and obvious advantage over controller 2 when ringing in.

The PlayStation "Jeopardy!"s polished the "completion" system of the CD-i version, and saved the question usage stats to the memory card. In other words, it didn't fix what wasn't broken... it just took "Jeopardy done right" to a wide audience than would have seen the CD-i version.

And now, the PlayStation 2 version arrives with this history of "Jeopardy!" video game evolution behind it... and promptly proceeds to ignore it. While it uses a sensible completion system for entering answers, it makes the stunningly boneheaded move of NOT saving stats about question usage to the memory card, allowing repeat questions to appear at potentially any time (at least the Genesis version allowed you to reject categories you knew you'd already seen - Atari's PS2 version isn't even that smart). What the heck were the Atari engineers and producers thinking? Apparently, they were too focused on features nobody really needs, like having CPU contestants answer with actual audio replies instead of on-screen text (memo to Atari: nobody cares).

Increasingly powerful systems should allow "Jeopardy!" to become more like the actual game show with each generation -- eventually, the game should be able to use a microphone and speech recognition technology to let players speak their answers aloud. But more important than the technology is a basic competence and awareness of gameplay issues, of fun, that this game screws up with the single avoidable mistake of not logging question usage to avoid repeat questions.

I hope they put out another one soon

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: April 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Overall, this game is a lot of fun. The only complaint I have with it is (as another reviewer mentioned) there have been instances where I typed in a correct response and it was judged as incorrect by the game. An example would be typing in "Thames River" and the game just wants you to type in "Thames"... irritating to say the least. That said, I have played the game numerous times and it's only happened to me maybe twice. I'm ready for version 2!

just like the show

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: January 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

youll do about as good here as on the show.that is until you get the same old questions over and over again.theres a part where you and the others compete for the right to answer first.thats a pain in the butt.the other thing that stinks is that they make you spell everything right.there is a loose spelling option butits useless.

A suitable challenge of trivia (and sometimes spelling)

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: January 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

It's not exactly like being on the show- you'll notice that some categories tend to be exceptionally easy (I'll never forget the $2000 clue in State Capitals: Boise. Thanks to a Daily Double, I managed to earn 20k on What is Idaho?). Overall, there's a good blend of difficult and challenging with intermediete to easy questions. The categories are exceptionally diverse, and I could be wrong, but the player profiles keep track of which categories you've completed, so no repeats (whenever I play with my main profile, I never see the same category).

Watch out for spelling though- the auto complete helps, but sometimes they will judge 'What is pope?' wrong when they want 'what are popes?'.

Be warned you need a multitap to play with three people, and there is no way to play with less than 3 (whenever its me and a friend, I just add a 3rd player and leave it alone rather than play the computer). Speaking of, the AI is not very difficult or fast on the buzzer, and only comes in 3 skill levels.

The game does has several upsides- good mix of questions, realistic style game play, a version where you can play solo (the only thing I hate about solo is that it doesn't give you the right answer if you're wrong/don't guess), tournament play, and it tracks statistics. Bottom line- an excellent version of the game with minor glitches. It'll keep you coming back.

The best Jeopardy game in all time period

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the first "Jeopardy!" game released on Playstation 2 and I believe this and "Wheel of Fortune" are the first two games released on Playstation 2 in 2004. Clearly, this is a perfect game with a real experience and some challenging answers. Also, it includes a real Alex Trebek speaks before, during and after the game show. On the whole, this is fantasic and absolutely recommended to all people in all time period.

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