You Don't Know Jack (2011)

Great fun with a crowd

User Rating: 8.5 | You Don't Know Jack WII

By MaDaStar | Review Date: February 14, 2011

If you've ever played You Don't Know Jack with 2 or 3 players cramped around a PC keyboard you'll appreciate the elbow room that's now available by playing this on a console. While the questions are setup using relatively current pop culture, the questions are pure trivia, which you can often correctly answer by making an educated guess. The humour is the same as before, it never gets raunchy, but can be very suggestive. Unless your company is from your bible study group, you should be safe to play this with anyone that drops by. We had 7 people in my livingroom yesterday, four had Wii controllers in hand, while the not so silent minority shouted answers enthusiastically to the rest of us.

The feature that lets you 'screw' someone you believe won't know the answer to a question is a great deal of fun, especially if it backfires. The host 'Cookie' may be annoying to some, but I personally can't picture the game being as fun with anyone else. The "Wrong Answer of the Game" is a nice addition, and is fun trying to discover during an episode. Even listening to the faux commercials and dialogue at as the endgame credits roll can bring out a few chuckles.

I am a die-hard PC Gamer, but You Don't Know Jack has definately benefited from losing the keyboard tether. I can't picture playing it any other way now. For 30 dollars and 73 episodes (which would equate to approx 15 hours of gameplay without repeating questions) this is a great party game even for those without controllers in hand.

Note: Upon putting the disc in our Wii console, we had to perform and update. Once the update was completed, the only way we could get the game to work was to disconnect the power from the console and restart. The game worked fine for several episodes, but on one occasion the game would freeze at the same point every time. Again, disconnecting the power from the Wii console was required to correct the problem.

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