You Don’t Know Jack Game Review
Review by IGN 8.5/10 (Great)
Long before games like Buzz! Quiz World and Scene It? were making couches competitive again, You Don’t Know Jack was on PCs and pushing trivia with sarcastic sexual innuendos. Now, You Don’t Know Jack is back, and aside from some laughable box art and barebones menus, it’s a fun, entertaining and challenging trivia game… with sarcastic sexual innuendos.
The concept of You Don’t Know Jack is simple enough. One to four players sit down to answer 10 questions followed by a bonus round. You’re presented with multiple choice questions and hit the right button on your Xbox 360 controller (or the Big Button controllers from Scene It?). Most of the time, the faster your answer, the more dollars you win or lose.
Review By Gamespot 8/10 (Great)
It’s a rare game that can feel fresh and entertaining 15 years after its debut, but all it took was a lot of clever writing to make the You Don’t Know Jack formula a modern success. The latest entry in the venerable trivia game franchise uses snarky humor and witty cultural references to test a broad range of knowledge, but you don’t need to be in on the joke to participate. The brisk format moves each episode along at a lively pace, and some unique twists encourage you to do more than merely answer correctly. Still, the structure can be a bit repetitive, and the twitch-based matching challenge at the end of each episode too often determines the victor. These issues are, however, vastly overshadowed by the excellent writing that will have you eagerly anticipating each new question. There are groanworthy puns and crude jokes, to be sure, but the large amount of legitimately clever and surprisingly funny writing make You Don’t Know Jack one of the most entertaining trivia games on the market.
Review By G4TV 4/5 (Great)
You Don’t Know Jack returns in a package that finally brings the game onto the current generation of consoles, without losing any of the irreverence that originally made it a hit. With solo, and multiplayer (online and off) options, it’s a fun title to stick in when you’re not grinding away in Fallout or fragging people in Black Ops.
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