
Terrible design and gameplay!

My wife's grandmother wanted this game, as a way for us to all play together on Wii and enjoy some classic trivia. So, we bought it and immediately popped in teh disc and began to create our "profiles" - which, by the way, we were very disappointed in not being able to use our Miis. This is one of the great features of the Wii console!
Once we had out generic avatars selected, we began a classic multiplayer game... and we tried to play it as well as we could.
The makers of this game should be ashamed of themselves for their poor development of this board game classic.
For one, the questions are in a typeface so tiny that even on a large screen HD television set, we could not read them from the couch/chairs we were sitting in. I had to stand a couple feet from the TV and quickly read them aloud to the room - which does not bode well for people with auditory processing impairments. For my wife, it is easier for her to read questions herself - yet she could not see them! Secondly, the timer on the game is so quick and counting down, that we did not have time to read the questions and all four answers (when they were words) before the timer ran out. The photos used for the responses were also very small. In fact, most the of screen was taken up by non-question related game play space; the tokens, the avatars, and the timer. This made for extremely difficult game play. Also, this should be a fun game for the family, and yet, not giving proper multiple choice for geography questions really hinders those who may know the correct answer's name but not necessarily where it is on the map. What a pain for my wife's grandmother!
Overall, the design of this game is horrendously poor. Poorly thought out and poorly implemented. It doesn't make use of the Wii system for anything other than rolling the dice. I think we are going to stick with the traditional board game for this one!
Review ID: 10000000012041522

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