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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.

A wounderful game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: November 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I loved this game! I am a big Jeopardy fan(even though I only get about 50% of the answers correct:) I still enjoy playing it.The great thing about this game is that I have played it about 100 times and there have only been a few times that I have had repeat questions.The only bad thing I can say about this game is typeing in the answers can be tedious.You definately have to know your spelling for this game,but my husband and I enjoy playing this game even though I always lose:)

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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

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.

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!

"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.

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.

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!!!

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.

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