{Holiday Gift Guide} Wii Game Review: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

Developer:  UbiSoft

Released:  October 5, 2010

ABOUT:

Who Wants To Be A Millionaire is based on the wildly popular and Emmy-awarding winning TV game show of the same name that debuted in 1999 and has been in U.S. daily syndication since September 2002. “Is that your final answer?” has become a popular catch phrase in popular vocabulary. You take the hot seat in the all new Who Wants to be a Millionaire game. Win $1,000,000 by correctly answering 15 multiple choice questions, each worth an increasing amount of money. Just like on TV, players can seek help for the super stumper questions via lifelines like “Ask the Audience”, “Double Dip” or “Phone a Friend”. Can you stand the pressure, or will you walk aw

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MY THOUGHTS:

I actually like this game better than the actual tv show, probably because I finally get credit for answering the questions right!  So far I have only played this game by myself, but you can play up to 4 players which looks like a lot of fun!  The questions are challenging and they get harder as they go up for higher monetary values.  There are over 2,500 unique questions which is nice because it will take me awhile to go through all of them!  The game also includes the tv show features like Phone-A-Friend, which it calls a friend in the game and tells you there answer and the percentage accurate they believe they are, the Ask the Audience which tells you via the percentages what the audience thinks the answer is, and Double Dip which lets you pick a second answer if your first is wrong.  You can also choose to Walk Away, but I just keep on guessing!  You have to answer a set amount of questions to mark yourself at a set point which you then earn money, for example if you answer the third question wrong you win nothing but if you answer the fifth question right then you win $5000 and so on.  Winning money opens up wardobe items to customize your avatar which are neat but I don’t care too much about dressing my avatar.  There are though tons of awards you could win which are challenges in themselves, like answering “X” questions correctly within 25 seconds, not using lifelines, and so on.  Overall, I like the game and think it is challenging with its questions, although it is nice because it tells you the few upcoming topics, so if you know you are going to struggle with one then maybe you will save your lifelines or just Walk Away – American History is not a strong subject for me!  I think this game will be really fun though with three other friends in the Party Mode.  You also can’t select a skill level (Beginner, Medium, Hard) so this game wouldn’t be good for kids too young, but if they like the show then they will like the game!

BUY IT: Look for “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” wherever video games are sold or check it out on Amazon.

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