Customer Reviews

Price Is Right

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(8)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

I've watched The Price is Right for about 25 years. I absolutely love the show. Five years ago my son decided to start watching it as well and has grown to love it just as much as me. We know the TV version pretty much inside and out. So when we got him a DS for Christmas, this game was a given. While the idea is good, the execution isn't the greatest.

1) There are only four avatars available and none of them fit your average, every day, middle aged female. One is crazed looking and the other about 80. I can not imagine they couldn't have come up with at least a couple of more options.

2) The game moves very slowly. There are pauses between every action. The screen shots of the prizes are grainy and gives it a low budget look and feel.

3) The game flow really doesn't make sense. Why should you get to play a pricing game if you loose in contestant row? If you're playing multiplayer, why do both get to the show case when only one can win at the big wheel? I understand there has to be some modifications, but these do not seem to make a lot of sense. Basically you win, whether you win or not.

4) I wish there was an option to toggle the instructions on how to play the pricing games. a) those who have watched the show are already going to know and b) after you've played the game a few times, it's easy to remember the instructions. No need to continue repeating them over and over again. At least enable the user to tap the screen to speed up the process.

5) I'm not sure where they got their pricing, but I tend to think some of them are a little low. I had a show case with a car, grill, and another item. All total it was less than 14,000. Makes you wonder if it was a used car.....

6) This one is for those that know the TV show. The person with the highest winning total stands on the right in the showcases, not the left. Not a big deal, but shows a lack of attention to details and something that could have easily been corrected.

7) Limited game play due to the lack of games available and the ease of memorizing prices. It lacks enough variety to be a game that gets a ton of time.

There are a couple of good points.

1) There is a multiplayer mode so my son and I can play together
2) It's reasonably priced for what you're getting.

This game is fun and very realistic.You play the game with actual known products not made up stuff. You can spin the wheel for your contestant and bid on the showcase. The games are fun and there are even barkers beauties. You can plat plinko, the golf game and the mountain climber game as well as many others.You will enjoy this game if you are a fan of this game show.

First off, I am a huge Price is Right fan. Then I heard I'd be able to play the games from the show so I pre-ordered this game. The first few times you play you do feel like you're on the show, but by the 3rd or 4th time you see how it's lacking. The graphics are pretty bad, there are 4 avatars you can choose from, some of the prices seem questionable, and it only lets you play a few of the games from the show. Overall it was ok, I wish they put more effort into making it.

There are quite a few cons to speak of firstly about this game. As soon as you turn it on you have to suffer through a stupid long and boring message dribbling on about this is only a video game and the prizes are to be in no way considered real.... REALLY? You know, for years now, when i won money on a video game, i have been sending in a lot of complaints that I never received my check in the mail. I must be owed the entire planets weekly income times 100 by now. Remind me to send another complaint about not receiving my Price Is Right Prizes for this game.

Finally you get to start your game. You can chose to either play a 1 player game against the computer, or a party game which just means 1 to 4 players using the same DS. No WIFI game to chose? ... oh well, that makes sense I guess.

Then you get to choose your well thought out and brilliantly designed contestants that consist of a fat red neck woman, a limp wristed blond guy, a little old lady and the ever so popular army man, or general, or some dork everyone was screaming out to be a selectable character for a video game. But even worse, these are your only 4 to chose from, they really should have come up with something a lot better then these 4 sorry sacks of polygon.

So, into the game. You start off with 4 contestants, and quite remarkably, it's the same 4 all the time, it's the same 4 you get to chose as your character, imagine that! Ratings for this show would be through the roof every week seeing these four returning all the time.

So you get to see a picture of something to guess the price of it. They could have chose something more then grainy pictures as the prize to bid on, cause it always look like something you wouldn't pay 50 cents for, but everyone else bids around $1500 for it, so you enter your bid and if you win, you win and go to play the next showcase. If you lose, you get a strike and play the next showcase anyway.

Then you play 1 round of something from the show, some of them are ok to play, and some are damn right boring. But there is about 10-15 i dunno, could be 20 games to play all up. Then if you win you go to the big wheel, and if you dont, you get a strike and go to the big wheel anyway. And then either you or the computer spins to get closest to a dollar, and this thing you probably would expect you could either spin the wheel lightly or hard, to have a random chance of what number it falls on... but no, tap it lightly, or drag the stylus as fast as you can, it don't matter, it's going to spin and the same speed anyway. Which does not exactly make it fair as you let the computer decide what numbers your going to get.

Then if you win, you go onto the last round, and you see some more grainy pictures and bid how much ya think it's worth. Who knows, cause the game claims a couple of grainy pictures of chicks in bikinis are worth $37,000 and I got it way off by bidding 1 cent. Man, I could have sworn it was going to tell me I was correct. I usually just let the computer make it's bid and then bid the exact same number. Got a 50/50 chance of it working, but there's only a 40% chance of that.

If you lose, you go back to the opening round to bid on some more pixolated girls with grainy smiles holding a cane with a clock attached to it. In which there is no point playing, cause if you get it wrong, its your 3rd strike and game over, so you start again and play that same round with a new stupid picture of a toilet roll with iceypole sticks through it and a lady smiling and taunting you like, "you have no idea what this prize even is, so how can you get the price correct"

So overall, i'd say if this game could show you a picture of itself, and say the item says 10 dollars, and should you bid higher or lower, i'd say bid much lower. Other wise you will feel you got ripped off. It's lack of options, detail in some things, and complete trust in the computers decisions make it a pretty poor excuse for a game here.

First off, let me say that I LOVE the Price is Right. I watch it ALL the time! This game is just so-so though. The first thing I noticed was the crappy graphics. It looked like something you would've played on an old NES. So I though, "ok...whatever". Then, you can only choose from 4 players. They're fine choices, but they needed MORE options!! You have a middle-aged black woman, a white military man, a young white guy, and an old white grandma. I'm a young white woman and thought, "who am i supposed to pick?!?", let alone all of other kinds of people out there. But I got over that quickly. It's no biggie. Thank goodness the games are fun to play. My husband and I do have a fun time with it. So I do recommend it, even though some of the things are disappointing. They just could have put a litte more time and effort into this game.

Oh, (this made me laugh more than anything) the audience that's supposed to be cheering you on sounds more like an angry mob than happy audience members. :)

I been watch the price is right on TV for a long time now. I'm glad they made it in a video game, i played with it all the time!!!!

I was really looking forward it, but this game is not much fun. Here's the things I did not like:

-CRAPPY GRAPHICS: consistent static & missing pixels
-SOUND EFFECTS ARE UNCLEAR & REPETITIVE: as if someone held a tape recorder up to their t.v. & then played it back.
-POOR GAME FLOW: Only 3 rounds and even if you don't win the first bid on contestants row, it dumps you into a pricing game anyways.
-TOO MUCH READING: for every product there's an unnecessarily lengthy description and it goes by quite fast so sometimes I cannot read it.
-PRICES AREN'T REALISTIC: $[...] for a package of chips ahoy cookies? In what decade?

Overall, I found this game to be lackluster & repetitive. I'm glad I didn't buy it (R4...)

My daughter got this for Christmas, and since then she is not the only one playing it. The kids and the adults have all been playing it as it is an easy game to play, and is different than most other DS games. The game is similar to the show in that you estimate the prices of products to advance in the game. As you advance you eventually make it to the Showcase Showdown, but what I liked was that even if you lose you are still able to play another game, almost like a consolation game. Might be easier for adults and older children becuase my kids don't really know the value of the products that they were trying to estimate the cost of, but they still had fun trying anyway.

Great game for Price is Right fans. In my opinion, not a game you could play for a long time, but definitely worth playing every now and then. It has all of your favorite P.I.R games included. Detailed game, definitely put a lot of work into it. I recommend this game. Especially for the price.

This is the same game as on-line. Not real fun, too slow for me and a little boring.