Buzz! Quiz World
Buzz! Quiz World is a marked improvement over its predecessor, Buzz! Quiz TV. With support for up to eight players and community-created quizzes, Quiz World represents a great title for teens and families. However, for true trivia buffs, the game doesn’t quite beat the buzzer.
The Pros
- Up to eight players online or off
- Variety of gameplay options
- Can torture boyfriend with NKOTB community quiz
- Can torture girlfriend with Rush community quiz
The Cons
- Too much filler
- Questions aren’t challenging enough for many players
- Matchmaking UI leaves something to be desired
On the surface, there’s a lot to like about Buzz! Quiz World. Exclusive to the PlayStation 3, this trivia-based party game offers up to eight players the opportunity to buzz in and answer questions on everything from space to spacey pop stars. But when you delve a little deeper, the game gets repetitive and fails to scale at all—up or down—depending on your knowledge level.
Potent Potables
Much is familiar and comforting in this sequel and there have been noticeable improvements. Like its predecessor, Quiz World ditches the DualShocks and instead, utilizes specially designed five-button buzzers for gameplay. It’s a fun little device that is easy to use once you learn the color sequence of the buttons. The game comes with over 5,000 multiple-choice questions and again, you have the option of purchasing DLC Quiz Packs to supplement your question collection.
Much to its credit, Relentless did a great job of responding to player criticism. Quiz World now supports voicechat, which makes online multiplayer matches much more entertaining. The game also supports up to eight players, either online or locally or a combination of the two. It’s nice that they’ve accommodated both those who always have friends over and those who never do.
Quiz World still supports community-created quizzes and users will find thousands, created for Buzz! Quiz TV, awaiting them upon booting up the new title. Simply by logging onto MyBuzzQuiz.com, users can submit their own questions and answers. The quizzes appear immediately and seamlessly in your MyBuzz menu. The process is remarkably efficient and fun. It’s probably more fun to explore the user created quizzes than it is to play the actual game, if only because you can engineer minutes of torture for your snotty friends who claim to never watch TV or who were too cool to pay attention to the Backstreet Boys in the late 90s.
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