Buzz! The Big Quiz - Solus (PS2)

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Buzz! The Big Quiz is a Trivia, Party, Single, and Multiplayer video game developed by Relentless Software and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is a marvelous entry in the series of Buzz and covers a massive range of general knowledge questions, including television, history, geography, sports, movies, etc. There have been a few instalments in the Buzz franchise since then - popping into HMV revealed a kids' version, a sports version, and a Who Wants To Be A Millionaire title using the buzzers - but another general quiz title has taken a year to emerge. The good news, then, is that it has been a year very, very well spent for the masters of social gaming at Relentless Software. The Strongest Link Music rounds make a welcome return - the faster you answer, the more points you get. Linger, Elliot (26 August 2009). "The Buzz! Tomato Challenge Makes Its Way Into PlayStation Home". SCE . Retrieved 26 August 2009.

Games Nominations 2006". BAFTA. 2006. Archived from the original on 24 May 2008 . Retrieved 1 February 2008. Buzz!: The BIG Quiz is the second in the Buzz! series of PlayStation 2 games developed by Relentless Software. Which is the problem with the whole Big Quiz - while some questions are extremely playful, others hit harder topics. It's not really a game where the "There are no hard questions" maxim works, as some are about on the level of the questions for pay-per-minute phone-lines and others are far more esoteric. It ruins any sense of challenge when it mixes it up so much. Old Buzz had the option of allowing old or new music, and something to weight the questions between "Serious", "Light" or "Both" would have added much. John Walker thought that Space Invaders was released in the 1980s. And he's a professional games journalist. Dolt. ELSPA Sales Awards: Platinum". Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association. Archived from the original on May 15, 2009 . Retrieved January 18, 2009.

Buzz! The Big Quiz

Phillips, Tom (5 August 2016). "Buzz! developer Relentless shut down". Eurogamer . Retrieved 7 August 2016. To start the game, you have to input your name and age, and after that, you can compete against four players in three different contests. Each round has a limit of time to answer. The game rewards you with points as you give the correct answer. Each question has four possible options, and you have to select one of them to answer the question. Similarly, there are rounds entirely thrown by the use of pictures. Most noticeable is when they lob four pictures in a grid and ask you a question of a, "Which one of these is most related to..." manner. Problem being, on a standard-sized television and playing sitting on the sofa, the main challenge is straining your eyes to even see the things.

Buzz! is a series of video games originated by Sleepydog Ltd., [1] [2] developed by Relentless Software and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable consoles. They are quiz games that see the players answering trivia questions while competing in the fictional game show Buzz!. Created specifically with multi-player party gaming in mind, the series launched in October 2005 and to date comprises 18 games; including 13 in the Buzz! series and five Buzz! Junior titles. The series made the transition to the PlayStation 3 with Buzz!: Quiz TV in 2008. The sixteenth game in the series Buzz!: Brain of the UK was released in March 2009. [3] The latest Buzz! game is Buzz!: The Ultimate Music Quiz which was released in October 2010. As of 10 September 2009, Buzz!: Quiz TV fully supports game launching. [14] Game launching is a feature that allows users to set up multi-player games in Home and launch directly into the game from Home. Buzz!: Quiz World supports PlayStation Home rewards by winning the quiz rounds in the game. From 27 August 2009 to 24 September 2009, an event for Buzz! took place in a special PlayStation Events Space. The event was called the " Buzz! Tomato Challenge" and used the space, Events Landing. Exclusive footage from the Buzz! World Championships grand final at La Tomatina festival in Spain was shown during the event. Users were able to take part in a virtual version of the real world event via the Buzz! Tomato Challenge pod in the re-dressed Events Landing. Users threw tomatoes at the enormous Buzz by answering quiz questions correctly. If they successfully hit Buzz ten times within the time limit, they were rewarded a Buzz! Tomato Head for their avatar. This event was only available to the European Home. [15] Cameos [ edit ]

You can play with up to players, aiming to earn virtual money at the end of the game to win. There are different rounds, and each round has a set of questions with four different options. To answer the question, you must select the possible choice that you think is correct and submit your answer to get points. It rewards the player with fantastic prizes when he collects 250 points. Each asked question has four options, and the player must select one of them to move forward. In October 2006 a spin-off series of games designed for children started with the release of Buzz! Junior: Jungle Party with 40 mini games (but 25 in The United States version). The second game, Buzz! Junior: Robo Jam, was released in May 2007, was the first game to be created by Cohort Studios for both PlayStation 2 & PlayStation 3, and has 25 mini games ( but 24 in North America). Buzz! Junior: Robo Jam uses robots as players. Then, a third, Buzz! Junior: Monster Rumble was released in November 2007 and has 25 mini games. The fourth game in the series, Buzz! Junior: Dino Den, is based around dinosaurs and was the second Buzz game to be developed by Cohort Studios and released in February 2008. The fifth Buzz! Junior game, Buzz! Junior: Ace Racers, again developed by Cohort Studios, was released in October 2008. [9] Buzz! Junior: Ace Racers is a racing game where players race cars, boats and planes using their Buzz! buzzer.

The follow-up, The BIG Quiz, should by rights have been better again. It expanded the focus of the game beyond music, turning it - on paper- into a vastly more accessible experience. In reality, some pretty dodgy questions, weak balancing and hit and miss humour meant that the game felt rushed and somewhat disappointing. It was still a party favourite, but not the game which the Buzz concept deserved. TV Show King Party is a Quiz, Trivia, Single, and Multiplayer video game developed by Gameloft and published by Ubisoft. The game revolves around the famous game known as TV Show King. It covers the four thousand questions, including different topics such as sports, fashions, entertainment, movies, music, history, and more. Buzz is another Sony game to use a special peripheral, and another game clearly aimed at the mass market. The game is presented in the style of a television quiz show, complete with a cheesy host and a glamorous assistant. But the big attraction of Buzz is the way you interact with it, via the flashing red buzzer. This novel, incredibly simplistic controller will be familiar to anyone who's ever watched a gameshow, and it will attract gamers and nongamers alike. Unfortunately, the quizzes themselves aren't nearly as appealing as they could be, thanks to an overly simplistic difficulty and a few gameplay irritations.Rob Fahey in Eurogamer praised the quality and difficulty level of the questions, and the game rounds, except for the mystery rounds which he felt were random with their awarding of points and weren't much fun. Other than that he said that the balancing of the rounds and questions was arguably close to perfection and scored it as 9/10. [2] There's no doubt that it wasn't a gamer's game, but it never set out to be a gamer's game. It was an extremely competent, well-executed quiz game, with a solid set of questions and cheesy presentation which managed to be self-referential and knowing rather than annoying. Crucially, it had a single master-stroke: a set of buzzers with satisfyingly large buttons and pleasantly ludicrous noises, which made it accessible to non-gamers in a way which a joypad-controlled game could never be. It got entire families together after Christmas dinner, from grandparents to young 'uns - that alone makes it into a Great Game.