[quote name=\'WhammyPower\' date=\'Nov 4 2005, 06:17 PM\']If you haven't bought the
WWTBaM or
WLoD TV games yet, you're in luck tomorrow morning at Kohl's. There's an Early Bird Special on them.....
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Coming out of the shadows here to help you guys save your money...
I can't speak about the WLOD game, but the Millionaire game is absolutely horrible. When I first plugged it in and turned the system on, I was greeted with a large pixellated Millionaire logo accompanied by a Nintendo-sounding Millionaire theme song. The game itself is pretty weirdly planned out, as well. You can either play by yourself or have up to three other people play along with you. You each get your own wired controller with A,B,C,and D buttons along with a Lifeline button.
In solo mode, it plays just like the show, reach $25,000, get Switch the Question, yadda yadda. In "Party Mode", only one player can use a lifeline on any given question. The first person to press the "Lifeline" button is temporarily locked out while the other players are forced to take a guess at the question. After everyone else has guessed, the person who chose to use a lifeline can select one and answer the question with that assistance. In either version, you can choose to have a timer set. If you choose this, you get 30 seconds to answer the question. Interesting idea....
The graphics are absolutely horrendous. Again, everything about the game screams Nintendo. Don't let the pictures on the box fool you. The actual game looks nothing like they make you think.
A few more gripes about the game. It says that there are thousands of questions to play with... I only played two games of it before packaging it back up in the box, but during the second game, 4 of the five first tier questions were "How many ___ make up a dollar?", using pennies, dimes, etc. You'd think their random generator would be a little better than that. Also, the controllers aren't very sensitive to your presses. Sometimes you have to press them a few times in order for it to lock in your guess. And one more... there are only two music tracks to the game: the Nintendo-like Millionaire theme song and for *every* question, there's a Nintendo-like version of the PAF clock timer.
Needless to say, I took the game back the next day and got my payment refunded. Worst thirty bucks I spent on a game show home version in my life. If you really want a Millionaire game to play, play the online versions at ABC.com or MillionaireTV.com. The graphics don't suck as bad, there's actual music, and it's free.
Honestly, don't waste your money.
-Rob
