Gameplay Today - Because You're Always Gaming

Remember as a child sitting around with your grandparents, brothers, or parents watching terrible daytime game show reruns on television? Have you ever wanted to relive this experience in the digital realm of video games? Well, You Don't Know Jack for the Nintendo Wii may be your cup of tea... or prune juice, depending on your audience.

You Don't Know Jac boasts 73 episodes of simulated game show fun. Each of these episodes has several rounds of questions of different types: "Shorties" which are simple multiple choice questions, "Dis or Dat" in which you have to choose whether a word is associated with one thing or another, and finally a final round called “Jack Attack” which is matching words with a subject.

The entirety of the game mechanics come from - you guessed it - buzzing in with the correct answer at the right time. Bonus points are awarded for the faster responses and, in some rounds, for being able to answer before the main target of a question in “Dis or Dat.” The episodes themselves test, of course, your general knowledge of topics such as science, popular culture, history, and much more. There are also bonus points for picking the "Wrong Answer of the Game" which is often a horrible pun.

Building off of this, it is easy to tell that the main focus of the game is definitely the multiplayer. I would probably never play this game alone because, honestly, many of the features of the game only really work well in groups. One that comes to mind is the “Screw” each player receives during a round. This allows you to force someone else to answer a question in the multiple choice section in a limited amount of time or lose points.

The problem (or the bonus) to these questions, depending on your maturity and or sense of humor, is the rather lewd phrasing of many of the questions. There is also quite a bit of mature humor that may fly over the heads of the younger audience playing this T rated game. However, if you are with a group of friends who are all pretty much of an equally silly disposition, you may enjoy these jokes. The group that I played the game with was not so enthusiastic. Thankfully if you happen to have no friends that want to play this with you there is an online mode to test your knowledge against other trivia nerds.

If you enjoy game shows and bad humor, you may like this game. If you are a trivia buff, this may also be a fun game. More than likely if you are silly and have a group of silly people you enjoy the company of, then this game is a fun distraction on a Saturday night. Everyone else should stay clear.