{"id":3166,"date":"2011-02-21T14:03:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T14:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=3166"},"modified":"2011-02-22T09:36:37","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T09:36:37","slug":"well-i-know-jack-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=3166","title":{"rendered":"Well I know Jack now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right then, as I suggested yesterday my copy of the new <strong>You Don&#8217;t Know Jack!<\/strong> arrived in the post so I spent a large amount of time playing it last night &#8211; 13 of the 73 episodes in fact as it turned out across two play sessions. The first one I felt something was missing, the second one started as &#8220;a quick game&#8221; and turned into seven or eight, so make of that what you will. I haven&#8217;t had the chance to play it properly with other real life people in the same room, which is how it is meant to be played really. Nonetheless, I wrote a sort of mini-review on Twitter last night and think it would be good to summarize it here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It needs more question number animations &#8211; what&#8217;s there is quite good, but it&#8217;s the same animation in the same place for every game, except occasionally a quirk happens.<\/li>\n<li>The Wrong Answer of the Game is ingenious &#8211; sometimes cryptic but always fair &#8211; you&#8217;ll kick yourself when you realise you&#8217;ve missed it, which you&#8217;ll do quite often now speed is the determining cash factor in each question.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve not had much difficulty finding games online on the Playstation Network, and not in matches against people who have learnt all the questions either.<\/li>\n<li>Dis or Dat wrks slightly differently depending on whether you play online or off &#8211; off the worst scorer plays and the other people can steal answers they don&#8217;t get right. Online everyone plays it privately.<\/li>\n<li>The Jack Attack feels tougher than before, and not merely because of the US bias. In previews I thought the $4k a question seemed really unbalancing, but the reality suggests it works fairly well. HOWEVER, doing a buzzer quiz online is brave, and the Jack Attack doesn&#8217;t feel quite convincing in this regard with noticeable lag between button being hit and getting a response.<\/li>\n<li>Whilst I&#8217;m happy with the more scripted episodic nature, locking all but five new episodes off at any one time is very annoying &#8211; if I want to take this round a friend&#8217;s house, which I will want to do at some point, I&#8217;m going to have to sit out and watch them play because I will know the answers in advance. Silly.<\/li>\n<li>The questions are as well thought out as ever, I&#8217;m not really laughing out loud but smiling on the inside (that may change with alcohol and chums) although the commercials are funny (especially the Racist Doctor TV show) and I&#8217;m a miserable bastard at the best of times.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s quite an amusing recurring gag in the green room regarding sound checks, and I&#8217;ll be disappointed if there aren&#8217;t 73 of them.<\/li>\n<li>Hopefully a second edition will add some more question types &#8211; even the ones with special animation (&#8220;Funky Trash&#8221; &#8211; rooting through the bins of celebrities and working out who they are, which is just a rehash of something they did years ago anyway, \u00a0&#8220;Who&#8217;s the Dummy?&#8221; &#8211; a question asked by a poor ventriloquist&#8217;s doll, &#8220;Nocturnal admissions&#8221; guess the thing from an allegorical and graphically represented dream &#8211; good fun these, &#8220;Cookie&#8217;s Fortune Cookies With Cookie &#8216;Fortune Cookie&#8217; Masterson&#8221; &#8211; answer a question based on a fortune cookie and &#8220;It&#8217;s The Put The Things In Order And Buzz In And See If You&#8217;re Right Question&#8221; &#8211; put three things in order) are all four-way multiple choice. They&#8217;ve had some great variations in the past (Bingo and Roadkill\/Coinkydink being faves), it seems a shame not to have the variety.<\/li>\n<li>OK, the important stuff &#8211; in the UK you&#8217;re best off importing the PS3 version as that will work, although you will need a PSN account from the location you bought the game from to download the 4&#215;10 episode question packs due to come out. The XBox 360 is region locked to US \u00a0NTSC consoles. The PC version will work but you&#8217;re limited to two players and no DLC or online (bafflingly), the Wii version won&#8217;t work in the UK, and won&#8217;t have the DLC either. Or you can pick the DS version which only has half the episodes. The choice, as they say, is yours, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videogamesplus.ca\/advanced_search_result.php?currency=GBP&amp;keywords=you+don%5C%27t+know+jack&amp;x=0&amp;y=0&amp;sort=2a&amp;page=1\">Videogamesplus<\/a> will the PS3 one to you all in for just over \u00a322 and get it to you in about a week or less (or I got mine at any rate).<\/li>\n<li>It sold a shade under 23,000 copies in the US in first week of release on XBox which probably isn&#8217;t too bad considering how little advertising it was getting &#8211; lots of embargoes until the day of release. It will be interesting to see if it becomes a word of mouth success. Don&#8217;t know how much it sold on other formats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right then, as I suggested yesterday my copy of the new You Don&#8217;t Know Jack! arrived in the post so I spent a large amount of time playing it last night &#8211; 13 of the 73 episodes in fact as it turned out across two play sessions. 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