All-New Now That's What I Call A Music Quiz 2
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Now That's What I A Call Music Quiz 2 is a music quiz for up to four people, it has three modes of play which are;* Chart Climber: This game is for one to four players, it is the only game mode with a single player option. Here players start in chart position twenty and take turns answering questions worth one, two or three cart positions with the objective of being the first to reach number one. Question topics include Lyrics, Rock, Cover Versions, Bad Haircuts, Fashion Disasters etc and the three point question is always a mystery. Some questions have an associated penalty, for example if the player gets it wrong they may be frozen for one or two rounds, instead of going up x places they go down 'x' or sometimes '2x' places, they could go one position below the lowest player and so on. Other questions allow the player to swap places with another player, go one position higher than the highest player and so on * Platinum Collection: This game mode is for two, three or four players, in it there are nine groups of themed questions based around particular decades, Solo artists, Lyrics etc. Players take turns selecting a category and try to answer three consecutive questions correctly, if they do then they win that category and it becomes unavailable to the other player(s). The first to collect five collections wins the game
The questions used in 'Chart Climber' are re-used in 'Platinum Collection'. In both these game modes the player may see a picture, a video, or hear an audio clip. The questions are all multiple choice with three possible answers.
- Free For All: This game mode is for two, three or four players and can be played over three, five or ten rounds. The game shows a picture of the game's title screen, small pieces are removed to reveal an artist's picture. The idea is that one player will shout out the identity of the artist, at this point someone presses a button on the remote and the picture and identity are revealed. The game then prompts 'Who answered?', 'Was it answered correctly?' whereupon it adds or deducts points accordingly. Players score more points by answering quickly.
There is no manual supplied with this game but there are detailed on-screen instructions. None of the questions narrated, the audio is restricted to the song and video clips and an end of game "Now That's What I Call a Winner. Well Done Player 'X'!"
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Average score: 3.8 out of 5 (based on 1 ratings)
Good for one, possibly two, plays but that's about it
The Good
I enjoyed playing this game. The 'Chart Climber' had a good mix of questions and the bonus/penalty features added just enough of a twist to make it interesting. The 'Platinum Collection' mode proved tougher than expected. Getting three right in a row was easy on some of the sections and for some decades but the 00's proved to be my weakness, and apart from being a decade of poor music it's that decade which showed the limitations of this game.
Other than that the sound is good, the graphics are good, the ideas are good and the game is easy to understand.
The Bad
A quiz is only as good as its questions. When you get down to what's important it doesn't matter how pretty a game looks if it's not entertaining then it's failed to entertain.
We played the game through on one 'Chart Climber' and we had one or two questions repeat three times. Next we played the 'Platinum Collection' mode. This really tests the game's bank of questions because three are asked in the same turn.
Firstly the sets of three questions are fixed, as in not random or set, so if question one is about Queen then you know what questions two and three are going to be. Secondly the sets of questions repeat and they repeat a lot. I am rubbish on music after 2000 and there were two categories for the 00's decade on the game board - I won them both. The reason I won them is not because I suddenly became an expert, nor did I Google the answers, the question sets just repeated so often that I was able to
a) exhaust all the incorrect answers
b) remember the questions and the correct answers.
I also noticed that some questions were included in more than one question set so a question about a 90's pop hit could come up again in, for example, the Duets category.
The Bottom Line
I can see this being bought as a fun thing to do around Christmas when the family get together. It will do its job for at least one game, possibly two, but after that the fact that the questions repeat so often will mean that it probably won't get played again.
It's all done very well but it has little replay value.
DVD Player · by piltdown_man (247042) · 2016
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Game added October 24, 2016. Last modified June 29, 2023.