Like Trivial Pursuit, only not fun.

User Rating: 3 | The Bible Game XBOX
This game tries to be a number of different things, and fails at all of them. It presents a cute little quiz show called 'Do Unto Others.' Players stop a moving light on a space which will give them the options to either answer questions or take part in a side game. These challenges in turn look like games out of a county fair. The controls are consistently awkward, which is going to be a serious nuisance for very young players.

The minigames include surprisingly little information from the Bible itself. They're cute in themselves, but they're about as relevant to the title as the key actions in most other kids' games. So, to get anything instructional out of it, you'd have to stick with the main sequence. That leaves the game show, then. And it isn't going to be very impressive either.

There are no questions from the New Testament. That's right, none.

So why isn't it called the Old Testament Game?

I don't know either...

But the fact that the packaging and advertising seems to show that it's aimed at a younger audience doesn't seem to help. The questions are as hard as those you might assign to much older students. They seem to be suitable to high school or even college-- but I doubt they'd work with the elementary and junior-high pupils to whom the game is pitched. The material doesn't have any resemblence to the charming stories out of a young kid's storybook. Thus the game messes up its one major asset, and winds up appealing to zero target audiences instead of two.

If you're looking for something that will engender knowledge among your children, talk to them or take them to the library.