Great game, but poor conversion (Trivial Pursuit Millennium Edition)

Member Name: KingHerrod

Product:	Trivial Pursuit Millennium Edition
Date:	11/02/01 (146 review reads)
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Advantages: Original game concept is excellent

Disadvantages: Poor conversion, annoying voice over

This computer game was Hasbro’s celebration of the millennium. Yep, I know it was to make money from a trusted game brand, but what is included and does trivial pursuit work on the computer.

First, trivial pursuit. This was originally a board game, where answering general knowledge questions on History, Sport and Leisure, Science and Nature, People and Places, Arts and Entertainment and Wild cards, got you wedges. The idea was to collect all the wedges, by landing on the right square and then make it back to the middle of the board answer another question from a category of your choice and you won.

This simple game transfers very well to the computer, as you would imagine and the lack of loads of actual question cards that you have with the board game is actually a benefit.

Right, so we have the standard trivial pursuit board game on the disc, what else?

Well there is Party Pursuit, basically a shortened version of the board game, where every question is for a wedge and you have to buzz in to answer. (You use keyboard buttons to buzz, so there can be fights). This version works very well with a few of your friends. If you buzz in wrongly on a question where you already have a wedge you lose it, so it gets fun, when you have the wedge on offer, but want to stop others getting it.

Then there is Point Pursuit, which is the best of all three on the computer, here you select a easy, average or hard question from the categories offered, and buzz in to answer. You get more points for the harder questions and points for a quick answer. Get it wrong and you lose points. There are only 20 questions on offer and the idea is to extract the maximum points from those questions. This is again played with multi players and is the only that really works with a single player.

One disappointing factor is the lack of a one-player game, there is not a play against the computer option and this does let the game down.
There is an Internet option, but it is rare to find someone online at the same time as you, with the game that wants to play, so this does not quite work.

The most annoying thing about this game is the voice that comments through the game all the time. If he were real you would want to punch him and he cannot be turned off. But most of these quiz games suffer from this problem.

The questions are actually quite hard and there are 2000 included in the game, so it should have a long shelf life.

Trivial Pursuit is a good game and transfers well to the computer, however, the lack of a one player game, means that you do not gain much from this disc over the board game (except this is cheaper), still the other two games a fairly good, especially the points one.

The extra games are average, and the conversion to the computer is OK, but nothing special and the voices are really annoying. In the end very average, Trivial Pursuit on the computer is in danger of being flogged to death.

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