Trivial Pursuit

by Electronic Arts

Product Features

• New question categories and all new questions with each turn.
• Challenge your friends with the original Trivial Pursuit game.
• Earn extra points by guessing whether your friends know the answer in Facts & Friends mode.
• Track your best categories over time with your customer Trivial Pursuit profile.
• Trivial Puruit finally played your way.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001IX4CN4
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: March 10, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,051 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #7 in Video Games > Xbox 360 > Board Games

Product Description

Platform: Xbox 360

Amazon.com Product Description

The Trivial Pursuit video game from EA builds on the original gameplay with stunning visual presentation, new categories of questions, all-new never before seen questions, and the innovative Facts & Friends game mode. The quick-playing Facts & Friends mode adds a whole new social dynamic to the game that keeps everyone involved by encouraging players to guess whether their opponents will answer their questions correctly. The result is a new take on a tried and true classic that has found a home on the Xbox 360.<

Key Game Features: What do you know? - Challenge your friends with the original Trivial Pursuit game. Who do you know? - Earn extra points by guessing whether your friends know the answer in Facts & Friends mode. Do you know yourself? - Track your best categories over time with your custom Trivial Pursuit profile.

Trivial Pursuit (Xbox 360) Players: Offline: 1-4 Other: HDTV 480p, 720p; Dolby Digital.

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Product Description

The "Trivial Pursuit" video game builds on the original gameplay with stunning visual presentation, new question types and all-new questions, and the innovative Facts & Friends game mode. The quick-playing Facts & Friends mode adds a whole new social dynamic to the game that keeps everyone involved by encouraging players to guess whether their opponents will answer their questions correctly.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun, March 18, 2009

By 

Daniel Sooley "Dan" (Toronto, ON, Canada) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Trivial Pursuit (Video Game)

The game is exactly as expected, you can play the classic mode against friends with an option to pass one controller or use separate controllers. The new, faster multiplayer mode which makes you share a wheel and eliminates sections of the board after gaining pieces is a lot of fun as well and is very refreshing for quick games. You can play this mode in the fraction of hours it takes to finish a classic game. Since it's faster paced it will more easily get some friendly rivalries going with your friends. It also packs a single player mode which I can't yet comment on.

As shown on the back of the box, it does not have online multiplayer. The Live logo on the game is actually there to indicate that there is downloadable content. At release, they have a FREE movies pack DLC which adds over 100 questions to mix in with the standard questions or you can play them separately.

Now for some bad. I ran into quite a few American centric questions which, being Canadian, I had no clue how to answer. May not be a problem for you. Also somewhat related, there are lots of questions where you are shown dots on a map and need to answer a question. I really wish they'd have labeled what the dots were. In the original board game you'd get a list of places, not have to know where each state is or city is in a state in the US. Lastly, the Scene It big button IR controllers do not work with the game. Yeah it would be nice if it works but it's not that bad. Since you take turns you don't really need to answer questions that fast where you can't navigate with the analog stick, and the controls are pretty easy.

I would recommend this game if you have people over a lot that may not be into playing the more hardcore titles (Halo, Gears, etc.). It's great getting some non-gamer friends and family involved on the Xbox!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Excellent game, but very content-starved., July 2, 2009

By 

Anthony Citrano (Venice, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Trivial Pursuit (Video Game)

At its core, this is a great game for the trivia buff. But its content really needs work.

The graphics are great for what it is (this is a jazzed-up board game, kids, not Halo.) The gameplay - visuals, pace, control - is truly excellent and well-thought-out. The designers did a fantastic job bringing Trivial Pursuit into the video gaming world.

My primary complaint is the quality and quantity of content. Perhaps I've been "spoiled" by the excellent and voluminous questions of the classic TP board games of yesteryear, but this was quite disappointing. Don't get me wrong - there are many excellent questions - however, several are miscategorized (asking me about crab soup ingredients in 'Geography' - really, guys?) And (as shipped) the game has nowhere near enough questions to sustain any long-term engagement. To illustrate: we (two people) have only had the game two days, played perhaps four or five games total, and have seen 15 or 20 questions twice. That would never happen with a real TP card set.

The good news is that these content issues can be easily remedied with additional question pack downloads and updates from EA - but, as of this writing, the pickings are very slim.

Also, the geography "map" feature could be improved. When the player is selecting his/her answer on the map, the name of the answer being "hovered" over is not shown. Perhaps this is just to make it more challenging, which is fine, but it's inconsistent with the rest of the game, which lets you see the name of your answer before you lock it in.

Oh, and the idiotic guy talking in the background who says several dumb things to you every single turn? Truly maddening. Who thought he was a good idea? You will want to punch him in the face within the first minute. Thank Heavens you can turn him off (options - voice volume - 0).

And while it doesn't mean much to me, adding support for online play would be excellent.

Overall, it's a very good game. But, if you're going to play it with any regularity, buy it only if you're optimistic there will be more content available to download in the future (I expect there will, but who knows.)

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, March 28, 2009

By 

jalcruces (Las Cruces, NM) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Trivial Pursuit (Video Game)

Well, I was really looking forward to this game and hoping it would revive the Trivial Pursuit popularity as it was in the 1990's. Unfortunately, this version is not it (perhaps a later version will be?). The package is misleading as it is not xbox live compatible - you cannot play others on-line - which to me renders it basically useless. They over did the voice over announcer on this game. I always keep the volume down as it is ReaLLy irritating. Other than that, it is ok, educational and all. The long game CaN be rEally long. I like that the individual game can be "won" in several different ways (versus the clock, getting so many points per category before clearing the board, etc.). I happen to have gotten a defective game as it has "frozen" several times. So, this one is getting returned. I may wait and see if they improve it (on-line playable) before I purchase it again.

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