There is an Xbox 360 games console in my sons room. I have had absolutely no interest in computer games. I don't bother the Xbox 360, it doesn't bother me. This was the rule everyone was happy with until a few weeks ago when my son asked me to help him with a new Xbox 360 Live game called 1 vs. 100. It was a general knowledge quiz and as a news-phobic 12 year old he was struggling to answer the questions. He ran up the stairs, and I followed reluctantly, trying to look enthusiastic but mentally calculating the minimum amount of time I would have to pretend to be interested before I could go back downstairs and watch Big Brother. Fast forward to an ...  Read the complete review

1 versus 100 is an online trivia game for their Gold customers launched by Microsoft for their XBOX 360 console in 2009. The format may be familiar to anyone with access to Challenge TV but basically involves a single person 'a one' competing against a group of 100 otherwise known as 'a mob'. Questions are asked, and for every question, the One gains points based on how many mob members are eliminated - providing the One gets it right. In the 360 version there is also a third category and they make up the 'Crowd'. In this game only the one or the people in the mob are eligible to win prizes which are Arcade games, Microsoft points and have been known to ...  Read the complete review

1 vs 100 is a game that you can play online via your Xbox 360. It's based on the TV programme of the same name and works in the same way, although there are two versions of it. To access the game through your Xbox, you need firstly to be connected to the internet, then through the dashboard, go to Primetime. Once there, you can see what types of games are available. They have options on subjects such as General Trivia, Entertainment and Sports. Each has a time and date when they're going to be on. You can either come back at that time or set a reminder, so that your Xbox will tell you when it's going to start. The first version available is the '1 ...  Read the complete review

1 vs 100 is a quiz game based on a TV quiz show of the same name. This game is currently in beta, so changes may be made. 1 vs 100 live play has 3 different catagories of player: The 1, the mob or 100 and the crowd. The crowd represents those who weren't selected as either the mob or the one, so basically the vast majority. The one is a player selected at random that answers questions to try and outsmart the mob who are also selected at random and walk away with 10,000 Microsoft Points and as people on the mob answer incorrectly they are eliminated, leaving the players who answered correctly and the one if he answered ...  Read the complete review

Game versions of TV quizzes have always struggled to recreate the tension of the originals; no matter how many times a tinny voiced Chris Tarrant reminds you that you're risking losing £218,000 or somesuch, it's quite obvious that you're not. It's all a pretence. All you're risking is that you might have to try again, or go and look up the answer on Wikipedia. And at the end of it, if you do win the jackpot, what do you actually go away with? A slight sense of satisfaction? And that's why the Xbox 360's '1 vs. 100' is such a revelation. The prizes are real, and desirable. And if you put a foot wrong you blow your chance of winning them. It's great - ...  Read the complete review