Presents Family Game Show Wii
WII | English/French | ISO | 4.63 Gb |Game Show Network| 2010

Genre: Show/Strategy

Game Show Network presents Family Game Show from Storm City Games is what you might get if Wink Martindale, Alex Trebek, Richard Dawson and Bob Barker became game designers. From the relentlessly cheerful (and occasionally condescending) hosts to the uptempo music and the studio audience, Family Game Show is a pretty decent simulator of the game show experience.
Within the game, players can participate in one of three different shows. Control Freak with Larry Lightfoot is a quiz show/strategy game in which players try to retain control of the board by answering trivia questions. Alternatively, players can force their opponent to answer a question that seems too difficult. The questions are multiple choice and timed, so the game comes off as a multi-player variation on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.
Control Freak (like all of the games in Family Game Show can be played by up to four players using four Wii remotes or sharing a single remote. Setup includes the option to have the game consider the players’ ages when selecting questions. This helps to even out the play between adults and children. On the downside, the host is frequently rude to players when they miss questions. Younger players might be upset by his comments and older players are likely to be insulted.
The final round is a modified “sudden death” round which gives the leading player a chance to take the game or lose it. This is a consistent design feature of all of the game shows and (like their real-life counterparts) makes the first rounds feel a little pointless.
p>If trivia isn’t your bag, you can play Puzzle Addict with Tom Wordsworth. This “show” is built around a crossword puzzle interspersed with other puzzle-style games like word search, sudoku and a type of word jumble. Between rounds of the crossword, players alternate playing the puzzle mini-games. Watching someone else unscramble mixed-up words or hunting through a word search doesn’t make for a compelling game experience.
For the Mensa set, Family Game Show offers up Brain Strain with Professor Plank. This game offers the largest selection of mini-games (15), all based on logic and problem-solving.