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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Outwit, outplay, outlast, outta my CD-ROM drive, December 4, 2001
I had some pretty normal expectations of the game, since I knew it was going to be impossible to capture everything that the show has in a game. However, I wasn't expecting to be so utterly underwhelmed with the game as I am.First, the graphics, with the exception of the players themselves, are uniformly bad. The sky, land, water, etc. all have Moire patterns, which doesn't exactly make me get into the game. Second, the games are repetitious. In team challenges, you are either playing a shooting game (which I kind of like, since they're at least somewhat challenging), a "throw this" type game, which, if it involves aim, is VERY hard to get the hang of, or a "test your might" type of game, where you control how hard someone's pushing, and how much effort they're giving. Really not all that involving. The trivia games are slightly better, but not by much. And the maze games are unforgivably dumb...the controls suck, since you can't hold down the keys to make your characters move. Instead, you have to keep tapping them. The "survivial periods" where you find out how the other players are thinking are also dull, and, as has been mentioned before, seemingly random. There's no definite clue as to how a computer AI character will vote, or how they really feel about you, so it's hard to judge if you're in trouble or not. About the only thing I DID like is the fact that you can have teams from either season compete against the other teams, or you can set up random teams (although that can get disjointed, as the first time I did it, I had 7 men and Alicia on my team). I haven't played the LAN/Internet version yet, but given what I've seen, it's a scary thought.
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