Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? Game Time

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    Some quiz game shows just don't translate well to videogames. This is one of them. What's worse is the lack of care put into the product. The questions aren't good. The pacing is off. The graphics don't cut it and the multiplayer mode isn't good.

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  1. ninjaguy454
    Jul 20, 2020
    5
    AYS 3: Game Time is essentially the same game that was sold the 2 prior years, published by THQ. This time, alongside the existing modes fromAYS 3: Game Time is essentially the same game that was sold the 2 prior years, published by THQ. This time, alongside the existing modes from the prior 2 games, they added a 'Quick Play' mode.

    What is quick play mode? Well, you select a grade difficulty and it just spitballs random questions within that difficulty from any of the applicable topics. I guess it's good practice? Really other than that, the game is virtually identical aside from a few minor visual tweaks from the prior entry.

    At this point, it was nearly 4-5 years within the DS's life cycle. The game looks aged, what it could marginally get away with a couple of years prior, is now very apparently recycled and I'd feel ripped off if I bought this.

    I went over the Multiplayer very shallowly in AYS 2. Now that they've had 3 games and a chance to improve on the mode, but didn't I want to address a complaint I've had with the multiplayer. There is no incentive to take the harder questions. If I take a harder question first, I don't get any bonus points, every single question regardless of difficulty is worth 1 point. If you get it wrong, you lose 1 point. So you're better off trying to take the easy ones first and this puts the first player at an obvious advantage. It ruins any minimal strategizing a player could get out of a Multiplayer mode.

    Although this is the best version out of the series I've reviewed so far, I feel like there is so much more that could be done with the game. I am hopeful that the fourth entry finds a way to expand, improve, or at least derive from the same recycled game.    … Full Review »