Who Wants to be a Millionaire Special Editions Review Xbox 360
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire which is distributed worldwide on TV, is now on XBLA anb PSN. Within the main setup you have some options for the game itself where you can mix and match up questions they start with the main bread and butter Millionaire, in which you answer general knowledge questions regarding various subjects, then Specials, which are downloaded content or a set of questions that are preset, such as Movie based questions and the special editions such as the South Park DLC.
The first game pack, developed in collaboration with South Park Digital Studios, is based on the Emmy® And Peabody® Award-Winning Series South Park. South Park fans around the world will get hundreds of specific questions based on the South Park universe, set in a fully themed Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? studio and featuring an original South Park introduction. The Millionaire set, host, audience – including main South Park characters – lifelines and contestants are all themed around the classic animated series. The pack also includes five player avatars, especially designed by South Park, alongside more than 600 questions taken from across all 15 seasons of the show. Even the Phone-A-Friend lifeline features characters from the South Park world.
In the game itself, you start by choosing either single player or multiplayer and then choose the players (up to four players can play at once), then it moves to how it is within the TV show where players have to answer a “Fastest Finger First” question, you either place words in the correct order to make up a title or list a subject from smallest to largest, east to west. With the Movie or South Park DLC it could be anything from list the episodes of South Park in order, or List the the movies in chronological order.
Your host isnt as you would expect the great Chris Tarrant but a grey haired well spoken gent who looks a little like a knackered Alistair Darling without the freaky black eyebrows. As you would expect with the host he has limited responses to you which can peeve you when there is four of you playing and he starts to get a little repetitive, but this only adds to the game when you find everyone starts shouting at the TV just like when you watch the show.
Once the “Fastest Finger First” winner has been chosen they then take the “Hotseat” and answer the first question, once answered its the next players turn using different questions, up to now during multiplayer we have had no repeat questions which is refreshing to see.
As with the TV show you have your 3 lifelines 50/50, Ask the Audience and Phone a Friend. They all work exactly like the TV series apart from the phone a friend which is quite funny but sadly only heard 2 different very mumbled voices one male and one female(this was in the normal edition without the South Park Addon DLC), each giving a few seconds of ummm and ahhhh then up to now giving the correct answer – not to say that if you use the phone a friend later in the game for the bigger money it may show a different, more incorrect side I am yet to find out but I will. The South Park DLC adds a whole new dimention to this.
The main aim of the game is to get to the £1000,000 question, along the way if one of the people playing uses up all lifelines and or gets a question wrong they are out of the game and its left to the others to carry on answering the questions.
Sadly there is only local multiplayer, this would have been great to link up via Xbox Live and challenge your friends. All in all the game is great fun for all the family, with some easy questions and some really hard questions that you need to ask around the room to see if anyone who isnt playing actually knows it.. failing that Google is our friend.
If expanding your general knowledge is your thing then this is a great way to do so, there are a plethora of questions to answer and new packs coming out all the time, you would be mad not to buy this for either Xbox or PS3 it has some great longevity especially if you like the fact that you can expand the game when you start to find the game becoming stale.
Graphics 7/10 Nothing special but does not detract from the gameplay
Sound 8/10 With the addition of the South Park special edition makies the sounds great!
Longevity 8/10 With the promise of new DLC to keep addiing to the game it could be possible to play for years to come.
Overall 8/10 This is a must have for any Film buff or South Park fan, thre are hundreds of questions to keep you amused for hours
The first three Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?: Special Editions releases can now be purchased from the PlayStation®Store (main game £7:99; South Park £4:49; Movie £1:99) and the Xbox LIVE® Marketplace for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft (main game 800; South Park 400 and Movie theme pack 240 Microsoft Points). In addition to this, there’s a free XBLA single player trial version of the main game available, including a set of the first seven questions.
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