Customer Reviews

Buzz! Quiz World Bundle

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Buzz! Quiz TV was my introduction to Buzz Quiz. I fully enjoyed that game and found it to be perfect for parties, family events or having fun when I feel like playing a game that uses my knowledge against opponents rather than my virtual bullets. This year, Buzz! Quiz World has come along and instantly taken the place of Quiz TV.


Buzz! Quiz World

9/10

The Good:
+ Buzz! Buzzers are simple to use for everyone, with 4 colored buttons and a big red buzzer.
+ Slick new presentation with improved visuals all around.
+ Player Profiles allows individual stat keeping.
+ Much improved online gameplay over Quiz TV.
+ Works with all the Quiz TV Quiz packs I had bought.
+ The categories are improved and many new game types.
+ Customizeable game types allows you to pick your rounds.
+ Buzz is less repetitive in his remarks, yet every bit as cheeky.
+ Buzzers come paired to the receiver out of the box, requiring no set-up.

The Bad:
- Characters from Quiz Tv seem to be absent.
- Still no custom character editor.
- Only features English, no Spanish or French language options.

Buzz! Quiz world does what few games can do - Please all ages and types of gamers and non gamers at once. I have played an 8-player game with children, teens, twenty-somethings like myself and older adults. Buzz! managed to pull everyone in so we were all crying foul as the current winner answered correctly. It is so perfect for anyone that likes socializing.

With Quiz world, many of my complaints with the Quiz TV have been addressed. For starters, you can now customize what rounds you play. Don't like the pie round? Now you can turn it off to make a custom game suitable to the group playing. Many people I play with complain about the Final Countdown round (which now plays the titular song by Europe) and you can even cut that out. Quiz World also features several new rounds such as Boilng Point, which gives the points to the first player to answer six correct questions.

Buzz now personally addresses player by asking you to pick from a list of names. It goes a long way and makes it feel more like you really are in the game and Buzz is more than just a virtual muppet. Also, this allows tracking of individual profiles, and Buzz remembers your tendencies. For example Buzz said to Kevin, one player who is frequently winning but had fallen into 4th, "Kevin, good to see you back at the top where you belong" after he had regained the lead in one round.

It's many of these small little details that really adds to the longevity and overall fun a game offers. At the end of every game, Accolades are given. It reports who was the fastest buzzer, who had the most right answers (which doesn't always equate to a win), who had the least and who got to pick the most categories just to name a few.

For those like me who had a Quiz Tv bundle, it makes sense to buy the Quiz World bundle to finally have 8 buzzers.It comes with buzzers identical to the buzzers included in the Quiz TV Bundle. Sony doesn't seem to sell buzzer pack seperately in the US, so it is required to buy another bundle to have 5-8 players. When you do wish to use 8 buzzers, you will need to use both dongles, as each dongle supports 4 buzzers.

An 8 player game of Buzz! Quiz is a great experience, but Quiz TV had made it lite on rounds and features. Thankfully, Quiz World now allows full games for 8 players too, whereas Quiz TV only had 3 round 8 player games. This may not sound important, but it really does make the game more interesting to have it more than 3 round if you 'd like. Now you won't have 7 other people surprised the game is over already.

Another area where Quiz World shine is the online mode. You can now play with 1-4 people on the same PS3! In Quiz TV 4 people could play, but would all control the same character. Quiz World gives everyone control over their own character and allows up to 8 players to play online on multiple PS3s, or 2 if you have 4 players on each one. Of course, it still features My Buzz quizzes so you can create and share your own custom trivia packs.

The only thing I would like to see Buzz! add is more characters to choose from, or even better the ability to use PSN Home avatars or create your own character to use. There needs to be more characters for practical reasons too. In the instance that you have 5 females players or more, some will have to choose a male character. It's a minor gripe, but something they could have easily remedied by at least including all the characters from Quiz Tv. Where are Cave Girl and Disco Man?

Overall, Quiz World is much improved and a worthwhile purchase for Quiz TV owners and those new to Buzz. You will most certainly be happy with. Just remember to pick up 8 AA batteries and then go get your Buzz on.

If you are sick of watching your kids shoot people and want a game everyone can enjoy, then this is for you!
This is one fun game! The wireless buzzers are great. The format of the games are lots of fun and the characters are very custimizable. Buzz calls you by name. There are almost 5,000 questions on the disc so you will probably go for quite a while without repeats. Players can also add questions, so the possibilities are andless. Also, there are more sets of questions on the Playstation Network you can purchase.
Buzz even has online "sofa vs. sofa" so you can play against people online. Up to 8 people can play!!! Overall this game is WELL worth the money! Very fun!

We've been having our Friday get togethers for many year now and when the first Buzz game came out for the PS3, it added a lot of fun to our Fridays, but the thing that lacked was only 4 person support, now with Buzz Quiz World, if you have the previous version, you can play up to 8 people at once, which lets everyone get in on the fun.

Like another reviewer said, this game is improved in every way, there's now MANY different categories, we've played this for many hours already and are still getting lots categories coming up that we've never seen before which always makes it nice. There's a few different rounds, but I think my only complaint about the rounds would be that in 1-4 player mode, there's more round types and they're all random, but in 5-8 player mode, it's always the same rounds at the same time, which really isn't a problem, it'd just be nice if there were more 8 player rounds and it'd be mixed up a little for when your group plays 5-6 games in a row.

On characters, I love how the game now saved your character statistics and at the end of the game, it'll go through and show fastest finger, most questions answered correctly, most wins ever, etc.. Also when you start a new game, it'll use information from them in the character introductions like say "The reigning champion" or "This guy plays buzz more than me", ha ha. On the characters themselves, there's some nice additions to the cast, I just wish they would've added a few more or kept some of the old ones like the nerdy guy, afro guy, cave girl and rocker, which are no longer available. The new ones are fun though, like the old lady that drops her dentures or the guy in the lizard suit, ha ha.

Another nice improvement about the game to is that the lowest person in point total isn't always the person to pick the round, it does mix it up, like the person that drops the most in a round will pick, so you don't have to worry about the person that's always on the bottom picking every single category.

One thing I wish about the game was that there was more single player games, currently on this one, it's just you answering straight questions to get a score, which it does save and others can try to top it, it would've been nice if you could play against a couple of computer players. I guess though, that's what Playstation Network is for, you can always find someone on there to play against.

Overall, this game is great fun ! If you bought the first Buzz game on the PS3, you NEED to get this one, you'll love it. If you never tried Buzz before, this is your time to pick it up and dive into the fun.

Great for your friends. I definitely recommend you guys buy this game because it really is fun. You might not like a quizzing game but the way they present it is so amazing and it gets really exciting when the competition becomes intense. DEFINITELY recommend. It is a Playstation exclusive that you should not overlook

MUCH IMPROVED OVER THE BUZZ TV QUIZ GAME. THE ONLY SAD PART IS THE LOSS OF TWO FAVORITE CHARACTERS. UMBAH THE CAVE GIRL, AND THE VAMPIRESS. HOPEFULLY THEY WILL COME BACK IN FUTURE DOWNLOADS.

Quiz World has the same categories of Quiz TV and 5 more but the sub-categories are comletely different. The categories are:

Quiz World (10): music, the world, people, movies, art and literature, science and nature, leisure, sports, TV and events.
Quiz Tv (5): music, movies and tv, braniacs, sports and lifestyle.

Quiz world has more categories but it have some sub-categories you rarely will see on a real tv show like "sums". i have to admit I prefer the sub-categories of Quiz TV.

A few bad things are:
1. that there are not too many female characters only four. I hope they offers character pack on the PSN in the future.
2. not quick game. configure players its complicated and time consuming. so It's better to priorly select players, names, etc... if you dont want to bore the guests.
3. not multilanguage again!

The best things is that now you can customized games even lenght as rounds.

also i find quiz world more easy for the youngers players than the quiz tv.

I've had this game for a few weeks now. It is a great and fun trivia game. It seems to get better with the more people you have. The single player game is merely adequate. If you are looking to play this game as just a single player game, then I would probably pass. But the game truly excels once you get multiple players. We had a group of 7 players last night and everyone loved it. The best part is that the game is self-explanatory (as are the use of the simple-to-use buzzers) so there is no learning curve. First-time players can pick it up immediately. The announcer, Buzz, even added to the fun by cracking some jokes at the expense of players and will call out individual players by their real names. The announcer also makes good use of tracking the stats of each player and using that information in his comments.

The questions are good and provide a good diversity of easy to hard questions. The use of videos and pictures in many of the questions adds tremendously to the game and breaks-up some of the monotony of a standard trivia game. The different rounds also helps keep the game fresh. It's a much better trivia game then the type you have in bars and restaurants. The question packs that can be separately purchased also helps in adding to the longevity of the game with the downside being the packs are a little on the expensive side.

My only complaint is that for games involving 5-8 players, the types of available rounds are more limited. It would have been nice to have some more types of rounds or even rounds that can be exclusively used for 5-8 players. Admittedly, a minor quibble, but hopefully will be addressed in the next version of the game.

I wouldn't hesitate in recommending this game to anyone looking for a fun and easy party game.

As other reviews have stated, this game is a lot of fun and will not disappoint. I started with Buzz Quiz TV and expanded my controllers to 8 with this game.

I was really excited about being able to choose rounds in this game compared to the fixed round format of Buzz Quiz TV, but the types of rounds for 5-8 players feels a bit limited. I would've loved to play rounds like pie throwing and point stealer which make the game a lot more fun and intense in 5-8 player mode.

This gripe still doesn't detract much from the overall fun factor of the game, but I hope the developers add all the rounds for 5-8 players in the future.

I can't believe Buzz really never was advertised..
Guess they don't have to cause word of mouth is the best advertisement..
Excellent and fun game..

I purchased this game a year ago for my wife for Christmas. We have only played the game 3-5 times and pulled it out to play on our new tv the other day. First game worked fine. When trying to play the second game the controllers would no longer connect. Changed the batteriess in the controllers which didn't help. It seems that the usb dongle that picks up the signal from the controllers has gone bad. No problem right? WRONG! I searched the internet high and low and could not find a replacement and after emailing Sony support, the only answer seems to be "purchase another set of controllers". That might sound easy but they are not available as a stand alone accessory either! I'm not sure what people that buy just the game without the controllers are doing. Sony says they can replace it under warranty (only 90 days!!!) but can't tell me where to buy a new usb dongle to operate the contollers. I've read that the old wired controllers from the PS2 will work and seem to be available on Ebay pretty resonable.
If you buy this game and it stops working YOU ARE SCREWED!! Here is your warning!
Great family game when it works though.