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The real SMARTY PANTS bought a different game!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 68
Date: November 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is horrible! We thought it would be a fun game to play with our 6 year old since it gives age specific questions. After a couple of rounds our little girl said "you guys can play. I will watch." She is a very smart child and some of the questions were insanely difficult, not to mention stupid. It is not fun trivia at all. Needless to say we took it to the nearest gamestore the next day hoping to get some of our money back and only got $15 for this $50 title. So basically we rented this horrible excuse for a game for $35 for one night.
Please do not dissappoint your children with this game it is not good for their self esteem, or yours for that matter.

If you don't know detailed information in many categories, you'll find it's boring.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 40
Date: December 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you don't know detailed information in many categories, you'll find it's boring because your friends will get all the scores. For example, one of the question that the game asks might be something like this "Which team won the Grey cup in 1988?". I think it's not neccessary to remember it because I can easily find it on the Internet.

I'm glad I rented it.

Trivia for Americans

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 13 / 18
Date: January 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a review from an international perspective. I bought the game three days ago without hesitation since I love brain games (I highly recommend Brain Academy: Wii Degree), but I was disappointed to find out that most of the questions are based on American culture, American sports, American science, American history ...etc. I tried to reduce the age limit, but it didn't do me or my family any good. The bottom-line, if you didn't study in American schools and was not raised the American way, be a real smarty pant and don't buy the game.

I gave the game three starts, and I am being generous. I gave one star for using the Mii, one star for graphics, and one star for the idea of the game. The game looses two stars for being misleading and using the term "Everyone" for marketing; the game is not age-friendly and not for people from the rest of the world.

Fun, but not a lot of options

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: January 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Love the game, but wish it had more games within the question/answer game. It's pretty boring without options to choose from and it goes to quickly on the "quick game mode."

OK

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 14
Date: January 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I didn't know I needed an additinal controller, that was my first disappointment. The actions you have to do to get more time to answer questions doesn't make sense when you are trying to point the controller to the t.v. It was fun, but a board game could have been better.

Fun for the whole family

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: January 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Enjoy playing smarty pants with my husband and 6 year old daughter. The game knows my daughter's age so she can read and answer most of the questions. Once you are done playing together as a "family", then you can play "friends" and compete to see who is going to be the Smarty Pants. My husband and I enjoy trying to beat one another. Good game to have some time with your family having fun.

An electronic deck of Trivial Pursuit cards

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: April 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Smarty Pants is a collection of trivia questions accessed via the Wii as opposed to the old-school deck you'd find in a traditional board game. Unfortunately it stops there, since the scant additional features feel tacked-on like a lazy afterthought.

Though the menu claims to offer options, they boil down to single vs multiplayer and co-op vs competitive. The rest could be summed up as "difficulty". Once the game commences, you are presented with multiple-choice questions and choose the answer you want by simple point & click with the Wii remote.

The game's weak attempt to add motion control is implemented so poorly that as long as you waggle hard enough you get credit for any task you're supposed to perform, be it "Dance", "Jump", or even "Tug-of-War". I was hoping for more, but found myself disappointed.

The positive side of being such a basic game is that there was little opportunity for bugs or glitches- I certainly didn't encounter any. The game offers a lot of questions on a pretty wide variety of standard trivia topics, so if you're just looking for endless trivia this will be slightly more interactive than going through a Trivial Pursuit deck card by card.

In the end, though, if I'm going to plunk down my hard earned green for a video game whose core concept is already available in non-electronic format I expect to see some additions to the recipe and a unique experience. Smarty Pants fails to fulfill that expectation.

Not a Smarty Pants..........

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you like game shows this is pretty good. The questions are agecentric, which is nice, I guess; I am going to enter a younger age, I'm tired of all the disco questions. But, we (hubby & me) had a lot of fun, it would probably be more fun with more players.

Family fun for all ages/Great Icebreaker

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 20 / 20
Date: December 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

We brought Smarty Pants to Christmas dinner, and the wii generation was playing this game. The elders and non-gamers could see and hear the game from the side and started to pay attention and join in. Soon thereafter, our parents were playing a round themselves! While "competitive," the entire family started to help all four players, making for great memories and laughs. It is an easy platform for fun and icebreakers at parties. The game is most fun if there is a group of people. I could not imagine it being fun with just two people.

The drawback to the game is that we did see some recycled questions within the two games played. And in some instances, the questions didn't make sense though age appropriate. However, everyone started jumping in to eliminate the wrong answers. Now who's got the quickest thumb to buzz? A bunch of laughs within itself.

A good Get-together Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game was purchased for our family to play. I had read somewhere online that it was for ages 3-85+... But upon getting the game, it was 10+. I originally got it for my 4-year-old, but we have to help her read/answer the questions. So it becomes mommy and child versus daddy. It still gives us good fun, but wish there was a younger version. Cant have it all, I guess. Will definitely be fun for teens and adult parties. There definitely is a wide variety of questions. And you enter your age at the beginning of the game, so your questions are tailored to your generation. The price is a bit high, should be 39.99 or a little cheaper, but it is better than some of the 50-plus dollar games I have bought in the past (Cars, Smooth Moves).

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