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Trivial Pursuit - 360 Review

Gameplay and Controls
Introduction
Sound and Graphics
Gameplay and Controls
Conclusion

  Written by: Vlad Mihaiescu
  Edited by: Elric Phares

Are you the kind of person that goes up to your friends and asks them: "Hey! Do any of you know how tall the tallest guy in the NBA is?" If you answer yes, this is the perfect game for you.

EA's Trivial Pursuit offers us three unique game modes with only one of the three modes catering to single-playing.

Considering that 2/3 of the game revolves around the multiplayer modes, you may want to read this next paragraph carefully if you don't have eager family members or friends that want to join you for a game (the multiplayer modes are limited to 4 players to an Xbox with no internet play).

The single player part of the game, 'Clear the Board' is not as much a fun way of playing the game as it is practicing for when you have company. In this game mode, you compete against the clock and against your previous high score. Just as in the multiplayer game modes, in Clear the Board you have to answer questions from the 6 Trivial Pursuit categories. Points is the key to this game mode, and answering questions correctly gets you points. Some board pieces have multipliers (for the best scoring chance, the Central HQ is worth 1000 points x multipliers). Each board piece can only be landed on once regardless whether you get the question right or wrong. After you clear the board, the game shifts to the final phase. Here you answer the final question; if you get it wrong, you lose a score multiplier and you get to try again. Even if you lose every multiplier you still have to answer the final question in order to win the game.

In the above paragraph I have mentioned the six game categories. They are the same in all three game modes and they are represented by a unique color. Blue represents geography, pink represents entertainment, yellow is for history, purple for art and literature, green is for science and orange is for sports and leisure. The two multiplayer modes are the 'Classic' mode and 'Facts and Friends' and they both use wedges to represent the 6 categories. In 'Classic' mode, the game is played as the traditional board game. Here you have to answer questions from the 6 game categories; after you collect all six wedges (one for each category), you have to make your way back to the central piece and answer the final question. The second multiplayer mode, 'Facts and Friends' also uses wedges but not quite the same. Here, once a player earns an wedge that category is removed from the board and no one else can earn that wedge. After all wedges are captured, the wedges turn into player lives and then the players battle it out for last man standing. The more lives you have the more questions you can answer wrong before you are eliminated. 4 points earned in a category grants an wedge; each question answered correctly is worth 2 points. Also, the players not currently answering a question can guess if the player answering the question will get that question right or wrong. If you guess how that player did on the question you earn 1 point towards the wedge. This is actually my favorite game mode; it is the most friend interactive mode and even if you play with the max 4 players, when you gamble on how your friends answer, it makes the game more addictive and personal.

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