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IGN Review of You Don't Know Jack
Long before games like Buzz! Quiz World and Scene It? were making couches competitive again, You Don't Know Jack was on PCs and pushing trivia with sarcastic sexual innuendos. Now, You Don't Know Jack is back, and aside from some laughable box art and barebones menus, it's a fun, entertaining and challenging trivia game... with sarcastic sexual innuendos.
The concept of You Don't Know Jack is simple enough. One to four players sit down to answer 10 questions followed by a bonus round. You're presented with multiple choice questions and hit the right button on your Wiimote D-pad. Most of the time, the faster your answer, the more dollars you win or lose.
What separates You Don't Know Jack from other quiz games is the way the material is presented. Each question has a goofy intro that usually involves a dancing number and the questions are asked by a sarcastic voice known as Cookie Masterson. Some rounds quiz you on whether a phrase is a former Pope's name or a Britney Spears song, and others have you deciding if LEGOs or Eggos came first. When the game does ask a simple question, it tweaks the answers just enough to make it comical and keep you on your toes -- like trying to decipher Cookie's terrible ventriloquism act. You Don't Know Jack's definitive style will be what turns some people off but will grab folks like myself and keeps us entertained.
Rather than randomly draw questions from a shared database, You Don't Know Jack is broken up into more than 70 episodes that each have their own queries. While this means that once you've played one episode you've seen every one of its questions, it also means that each show is a really polished experience. If you pick a wrong answer Cookie has something to say and he'll also draw on the fact that you're alone or playing with other people or took forever to buzz in. The dialogue is dialed in to what is happening in that episode and with that question. Even though there aren't thousands of questions, this setup makes for a fresh experience each time I turn on a new episode of You Don't Know Jack. That's a quiz game I want to play over and over.
©2011-02-28, IGN Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The concept of You Don't Know Jack is simple enough. One to four players sit down to answer 10 questions followed by a bonus round. You're presented with multiple choice questions and hit the right button on your Wiimote D-pad. Most of the time, the faster your answer, the more dollars you win or lose.
What separates You Don't Know Jack from other quiz games is the way the material is presented. Each question has a goofy intro that usually involves a dancing number and the questions are asked by a sarcastic voice known as Cookie Masterson. Some rounds quiz you on whether a phrase is a former Pope's name or a Britney Spears song, and others have you deciding if LEGOs or Eggos came first. When the game does ask a simple question, it tweaks the answers just enough to make it comical and keep you on your toes -- like trying to decipher Cookie's terrible ventriloquism act. You Don't Know Jack's definitive style will be what turns some people off but will grab folks like myself and keeps us entertained.
Rather than randomly draw questions from a shared database, You Don't Know Jack is broken up into more than 70 episodes that each have their own queries. While this means that once you've played one episode you've seen every one of its questions, it also means that each show is a really polished experience. If you pick a wrong answer Cookie has something to say and he'll also draw on the fact that you're alone or playing with other people or took forever to buzz in. The dialogue is dialed in to what is happening in that episode and with that question. Even though there aren't thousands of questions, this setup makes for a fresh experience each time I turn on a new episode of You Don't Know Jack. That's a quiz game I want to play over and over.
©2011-02-28, IGN Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved