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- ASIN: B00004RIPJ, Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 8 x 1.5 inches, Media: CD-ROM, Release Date: July 20, 2005, Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (52 customer reviews), desertcart Bestsellers Rank: #27,524 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games).
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logo above to see over 15,000 titles in stock. .com Review The
first version of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire was the third
bestselling game of 1999 and continues to fly off store shelves,
so a sequel was inevitable. Who Wants To Be a Millionaire: 2nd
Edition gives fans 600 more questions and brilliantly captures
the feel of the TV show. The only thing missing is the cash.
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You're in the hot seat with more questions, more Regis, and more
fun. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Second Edition is packed with
600 all-new questions, lifelines, and Regis banter that is sure
to satisfy fans. The pressure is on--win a million or lose it
all. Just try to keep your cool when Regis asks, "Is that your
final answer?"
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Even if this second version of the best-selling original "Who
Wants To be A Millionaire?" CD-ROM game doesn't bag you a
million, it's a wealth of multiple-choice amusement. Testing
broadbased knowledge with 600 new questions, the game is a
reasonable facsimile of the blockbuster TV show starring the
dapper Regis Philbin. The sounds, graphics and playability ring
true-right down to the movie clip of "virtual Regis" pointing and
asking, "who wants to be a millionaire?" And everything seems
crisper, sharper and faster than in the original CD-ROM version
that sold more than a million. Play alone or test your speed
knowledge in the "fastest finger" round to beat a competitor to
the hot seat. Amaze yourself with how much-and how little-you
know. A 2000 Parents' Choice® Silver Honor.
Reviewed by Don Oldenburg, Parents' Choice® 2000 -- From
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Most hard-core gamers probably gnash their teeth at the thought
of Regis Philbin and his simple-minded trivia game outselling
every other supposedly respectable game on the market. The TV
game show that has every executive from other networks feverishly
reshuffling his prime-time grid is also burning up the computer
entertainment charts. With more than a million copies sold and no
end in , Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is the people's
choice, whether fraggers like it or not.
Much like the TV show, and perhaps like Regis Philbin himself,
Millionaire the computer game appreciates its own mediocrity, but
it executes its blandness extremely well. First of all, the price
is low enough ($19.95) to make it an ideal impulse buy. Second,
it's got Regis himself, who's key to the game show's success.
After all, Millionaire is about achieving unearned success by
showing mastery of trivial knowledge that otherwise gets people
nowhere in life. Who better to usher these average Americans into
the Hot Seat and give them a at accidental wealth than a
common-man celebrity like Regis?
While the game doesn't reproduce the social drama that makes the
TV show so popular, it makes do with the bare-s gameplay and
adds some of the design qualities of the developer's signature
product, the much better You Don't Know Jack. Each aspect of the
show is re-created in the computer game in some fashion. In
single-player mode, you go right into the Hot Seat, where you
must ascend a ladder of 15 multiple-choice trivia questions to
win. Reaching the one thousand and thirty-two thousand dollar
milestones guarantees you will win at least that much if you lose
later, though it hardly matters. All you'll get is an onscreen
check with Regis' signature.
When you feel stumped, you have three "lifelines" to use
throughout the climb. The 50/50 option removes two of the three
wrong answers to a question. You can ask to poll the audience,
which gives you the actual results taken from a sample group for
each question. The most impressive re-creation is the
phone-a-friend lifeline, in which Regis calls one of his friends,
who then struggles to offer a suggestion that may or may not be
right.
Jellyvision and Disney evidently invested the necessary
resources to give the game as much of the TV feel as possible.
While Regis doesn't actually read off all of the questions, he
does offer the color commentary about where you are on the ladder
and banters with the phone-a-friend character. Even after many
hours of play, there still wasn't any tedious redundancy in his
comments, and the question database seemed sufficiently deep to
avoid frequent repeats.
With years of You Don't Know Jack experience under their belts,
the Jellyvision designers know how important a smooth
audio-visual experience is to keeping a simple game interesting.
In addition to the melodramatic music, the questions - which pop
in and out, causing the screen to rearrange itself - are animated
well. Regis comments on the game without any telltale sound
splices or lag times for disk access. However, the questions are
noticeably more media and pop-culture-related than those in the
TV version, suggesting that Jellyvision may have been dipping
into the You Don't Know Jack database.
Unfortunately, the Fastest Finger multiplayer qualifying round
is the weakest part of the game. On TV, more than a dozen
contestants must arrange four items (like movies or historical
events) into the correct order, usually chronological. Getting
the fastest correct answer sends you to the Hot Seat. The
computer variant struggles to re-create this by letting any
number of people choose a letter as their own on the PC keyboard.
The computer then shuffles the four items into different orders.
The first person to press a key when the right order comes up
wins, and then the standard single-player mode starts.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire could have been a better game in
other ways as well. It's hard to say whether a network-play
variant could have worked better than the Fastest Finger option,
which just doesn't make Millionaire into the party game that You
Don't Know Jack is. A head-to-head or multiplayer contest in
which players simply respond to the same multiple-choice
questions simultaneously until one player remains would have
probably worked better. And since the central drama of
Millionaire has to do with the money at stake, it would have been
interesting to link the home and on-air versions somehow. For
instance, home players who consistently reach the top of the
money ladder could automatically apply to be TV contestants.
But for $19.95, one probably shouldn't complain that Jellyvision
didn't explore any extensions to the basic gameplay. As it
stands, Who Wants to be a Millionaire is both a faithful and
entertaining simulation of the TV show. You Don't Know Jack is
far and away the better trivia game, as it's both more
entertaining and more appropriate for party play. But it's
definitely the game for those who want to see how well they would
do in the infamous Hot Seat. It may also be the best way to
permanently shut up that irritating, know-it-all family member
who barks out the answers to all of the questions whenever the
show is on TV. --Steve Smith
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