Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

"Hum, guess I was bored..."

Introduction
In most countries you could watch a contest on television that had the same name as this game, and as you may imagine this game is based on it. That was a contest in which a set of participants entered and only one of them could win money, and the amount would be set by the number of consecutive questions that he could answer correctly, and he could also use 3 different helps: he could phone to a friend, ask the help of the audience and use a special option which disables 2 of the 3 incorrect answers. Looks fine, but unfortunately the game doesn't appear to have much to do with the show...

Gameplay
Once you start playing, it will be like... ''Press start'', and then the game begins. There isn't any other options for you to pick, so you then start playing... You will be confronted with your first question (there isn't any qualifying round, unlike in the show), in which you will be able to pick between the 4 answers (only 1 of them is correct), quit the game (if you think that you can't answer the question correctly and you already have enough money...) or use one of the 3 available helps (you can only use each of them once...). If you answer correctly, a new question will appear and you can continue playing. However, if you quit or you fail to answer correctly, you will just see a screen with how much you won and then everything starts again... as you may imagine, that's not very nice...

Story
None at all, but it doesn't matter in this game, as the gameplay doesn't require any story at all.

Graphics/Sound
Although you could think that graphics wouldn't matter much in this type of game, they do. How can the audience vote if they are not even there? How can they clap their hands? And there's nobody in any chair, not even in the one of the guy who should be presenting the show! Also, the only sounds that you can hear are the (invisible) audience clapping their hands and the many themes from the show... Even on the ''phoning a friend'' help, you can't hear anyone... you just hear a ''calling'' sound and then the answer that he chose. As you may imagine, this makes both the graphics and the sound of this game awful.

Play Time/Replayability
This game surely has a lot of play time, but as for replay value... well, i don't think there's any, as you will easily get bored of playing this game.

Final Recommendation
Only get this game if you want a quiz game and you don't have any friends. Other than that, you will just become bored...

Reviewer's Score: 2/10, Originally Posted: 02/29/04