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Who wants to be a millionaire?
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HAVE you ever heard of or seen the famous TV show in America, who wants to be a millionaire? Regardless, you should try the show's game edition.
The goal of the game is to correctly answer 15 consecutive, multiple-choice questions. Doing so earns you a million dollars. Unfortunately, it's only pretend money, but what the heck, it's still a challenge.
Included are the three lifelines that we have all come to know and love: Ask The Audience, Phone A Friend, and 50/50. As usual, asking the audience pops up an instant poll with the crowd's take on the correct answer. The crowd, however, is just that -- a crowd (i.e., they aren't rocket scientists). The computer simulates their responses in the game, and the answer comes with no guarantee.
Buena Vista has done a good job of infusing the show's personality into the game. Regis supplies the voice-overs, and they are relaxed, not too repetitive, and believable. The Phone A Friend lifeline is well done; Regis' friends are full of life, often offering anecdotes to back up their views. And the graphics are ... well, they're sort of what you'd expect -- plain, yet attractive. You'll spend most of your time staring at questions, so MIP-mapping and polygon count aren't really an issue. On the downside, I'm sure we'd all like to see a bit more Regis footage.
The multiplayer is extremely weak. Players compete in a "Fastest Finger" drill to see who can most rapidly identify the correct order of a list of items. Then the winner moves on to a standard single-player game. That's not really what I would call multiplayer, but then again there's really not much of a multiplayer aspect to the TV show. And here, it's good enough for a back-of-the-box bullet.
So, is it fun? Sure.
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