Quick Look: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 2012 Edition

Is it just me or does the microphone only come up when there aren't any options to choose from, except for the main fucking menu?

@elko84 said:

wow garbage. did anyone who make this actually watch a single episode of the game show? it doesn't follow the format of the show. there's not even any of the correct music in the game!

I agree on the game being garbage, but the TV Show changed its format fairly recently, and the game at least halfway follows that format (I wouldn't know for certain - I'm not grabbing it, and these guys didn't show off the single player)

The current US format (also known as the Shuffle Format) is 10 questions in the first phase, with each question having a random amount from $1,000 to $10,000, and then the final 4, with the option to skip UP to 2 of the first 13 questions [forfeiting their amounts in the process]. Note that leaving with $0 is not possible under this format, you get the minimum prize of $1000 just for being on the show, and automatically get $25,000 win or lose for getting either the 11th, 12th, or 13th questions right.

In the smaller thumbnail on the front page, I thought the big SR3 head mask thingy was just a monster version of jeff that kinect had created v.v

"Sunny?" No, it's "Sunni," game show host. Uaauueughhhh

Funniest Quicklook in awhile.

@TheHakku said:

"Sunny?" No, it's "Sunni," game show host. Uaauueughhhh

no no no everyone knows its sunny and chia pet

not sunni and shia

Chris Tarrant made the show slightly good

woah Harry Morgan was in M.A.S.H., but Dexter Morgan's dads name is Harry Morgan too. Coincidence?

@Grillbar: Sonny and Cher?

Why did this game even need Kinect? Couldn't you simply navigate the menus and answers more conveniently with controllers?

Holy shit, this game is dumb.

Any Sifl and Olly reference is a good one.

@elko84: Yes it does, they've changed the format on the actual show.

Let me reintroduce you two: Rider meet final, horse meet answer.

Thank you ryan for picking Oshkosh, my home city, for an answer. Made my day lol

Kinect is so laughably stupid. Why would someone buy this?

Kinect is so laughably stupid. Why would someone buy this?

I hate thew millionaire format.

I honestly didn't know that there was another version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire other than the UK version.

Let's hope that the suffering within this Quick Look will deter people from buying this turd of a game.

What's this shit? Where's Chris Tarrent? :(

@laserbolts said:

Kinect is so laughably stupid. Why would someone buy this?

You kidding me? The technology is amazing. Look at how well the good games use it, such as Gunstringer and Kinect Sports. It's the lack of quality titles, not the technology. I personally think it's an amazing device, a few bad apples don't ruin the bunch.

Funny as fuck, nice work fullas.

@psychedelicsa said:

Why did this game even need Kinect? Couldn't you simply navigate the menus and answers more conveniently with controllers?

I didn't even think about that. The fact that they're already cutting down potential buyers just so you could hand wave your answers.. that's the only Kinect function? They couldn't even give a voice command to just answer "A" or "B"? I really have to wonder how this was green lighted as a Kinect game.

So two millionaire games released the same week? I thought this was going to be a quick look of the xbla version.

Why don't you guys just take a purple jewel case from an extra Kinect game lying around the Giant Bomb offices, and switch the cover out for this one? That way it can sit on your "Kinect only" shelf and keep everything purple.

"Not made by anybody who intended to play it" Put Jeff's quote on the back of the box

I love how nobody making this game bothered to correct the mispronunciation of Oregon. Its Ore-Uh-Gon, not that hard to get right.

wow jeff was totally right!

gameshowvideogames

OMG, even compared to the show, this game is shit. I love how it randomly picks someone to be first even if both were hovering over the answer from the start, and how it interrupts the second player's answer to ask the first player if thats their final answer. If you worked on this game and you're proud of it... I dunno... get help?

@LegendaryChopChop said:

@laserbolts said:

Kinect is so laughably stupid. Why would someone buy this?

You kidding me? The technology is amazing. Look at how well the good games use it, such as Gunstringer and Kinect Sports. It's the lack of quality titles, not the technology. I personally think it's an amazing device, a few bad apples don't ruin the bunch.

lol. Gunstringer good.

This game looks like crap; even worse than the show. How anyone could sell this and sleep at night is beyond me.

Ubisoft. Ubisoft. Ubisoft. Remember the name. Ubisoft. They aren't just making bad games, they're actively making awful ones.

Poop from a butt.

Seeing that the achievements for the game are all single player it definitely looks like the player2 option was tacked on at the last minute for really nobody to enjoy playing.

@kitsunezeta: really, well i stand corrected. i wasn't aware they changed the show. i'd rather have a classic millionaire game with the original music. i'm surprised the show is even on tv still.

F*cking dumb piece of sh*t. Love the quick look though :)

Nine videos of the Giant Bomb crew messing around with silly Kinect games? Could life possibly get any better?

Finally a cure for insomnia has been found!

TGS 2K6 representing.

Goddamn, they literally put no effort into this game, did they? This is such a simple concept, I don't understand how they could fuck this up in so many ways.

Why require Kinect when you don't even utilize its features? At least voice control answer A, B, C, D, Yes and No. It's not even that hard to figure that out. Shame.

Dat HD. Thank you very much Giant Bomb.

"Are you saying robots generated this game completely algorithmically?"

jeff's hair is.. whats going on with jeff's hair.. hey not trying to be mean but..

Greetings from 2019... this is the page I'm brought to when I click the new "Quick Looks" menu.

It's a great QL, so I'm not complaining, lol.