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Strike It Lucky - Interactive DVD Game [Interactive DVD]


RRP: £19.99
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Enjoyable, fun for a fair while, but has some problems
Review date: 2007-12-01 Rating: 8 out of 10

** Object **

I am going to assume that you have watched, and liked, "Strike it Lucky" or "Strike it Rich" from the 1980s and 1990s, and want to play the game as per the TV version.

I'm going to go on at some length. Basically, if you like "Strike it Lucky", you will like this version of the game, especially the multi-player version. However, it is not without its own problems.

The first round involves you going across 8 screens, some of which had prizes in the TV version, and some of which had "Hot Spot"s. Then, you had to answer a question correctly.

The second round involves going across 10 screens, and missing 2-4 Hot Spots, and winning (if you succeed) £1,000-£2,000, or later £2,000-£4,000.

To win control of the board in the first round involves answering multi-choice questions

** Multi-choice questions **

You will be given the option to answer 2, 3 or 4 questions under a given topic.

Once you have selected the number of questions, you will then be shown 6 answers. Once you have correctly identified an answer, that answer will disappear (i.e. you have 6 possible answers for the first question, 5 for the second, 4 for the third and 3 for the fourth).

If you answer incorrectly, the same question will be asked of the next Team, and so on until all of the questions have been asked.

Once all of the questions have been answered correctly, that Team will have 2, 3 or 4 possible moves on the board.

** Moving across the board **

Hidden within each screen is either a Hot Spot, stopping your further progress, or a category for the Jackpot question.

The categories for the Jackpot question are: Sport, Entertainment, People, Places, History and Science.

If you are shown a category and have moves remaining, you can either "bank" the categories and stop, or risk the category shown and progress further across the board.

** Problems with the above **

The questions are not necessarily easy, and there is no skill setting, e.g. you cannot have Team 2 answering children's questions. This is largely a game for adults.

I do not believe that the first screen in the TV game the next screen was ever a "Hot Spot", but it can be in this game.

In the TV series, if Team 1, Team 2 and Team 3 don't get the same question right, Michael abandons the question and moves onto the next one, but not in this version.

If you are playing Team 3, and you are at the final screen, and Team 2 gets asked a question and gets it wrong, in the TV series you would then get asked the Jackpot Question, but in this version you have to continue answering Team 2's questions.

If you have only 3 screens left, you will still be offered the choice of 2, 3 or 4 screens.

** Jackpot Question **

The Jackpot Question is significantly easier than the standard multiple choice questions, e.g. "What J.C. invaded Britain in 55 B.C.", and "Matter has three states: Solid, Liquid and what?" (actually, according to QI, matter has 6 states, but never mind that).

** Final round **

You have to get across without hitting more than 3 hotspots - you have no choice as to whether to take 2, 3 or 4 Hot Spots. It's difficult. I would have preferred to have the choice.

When you lose, you do not see the full board as per the TV show, so you do not know whether going "Top" instead of going "Middle" would have made a difference to the result.

** Single player game **

You have to get across the first screen with just 5 sets of questions. Answer 1 question wrong in a set, and you lose all of those moves - and you don't get to find out the right answer. Overall, it's hard.

If you lose, Michael says "No-no-no-no-no. You are not great at this." Thanks(!)

However, well done for creating a single-player version of a game which is essentially multi-player

** Michael Barrymore **

I like Michael Barrymore. I thought he was funny in the TV series, and in Celebrity Big Brother 2006.

However, he is not that funny in this version, and sometimes he's a bit creepy.

He doesn't ask the questions; he is merely the compere, so he introduces the game, and says when it is a wrong answer. When you get an answer right, he doesn't say "Well done" - instead, the next question is shown.

There's not enough new material recorded. For example, in the final round, he repeatedly says "Top, middle or bottom"; it is very easy to get sick of him saying it at this stage.

As a compere, he needs to congratulate a bit more. If you answer correctly the Jackpot Question correctly, there's no "Well done", just "Team 2 and 3, you've lost. Team 1, get ready for the Jackpot Round". Workmanlike.

Finally, the opening screen makes Michael look at if he is a midget; it is scaled badly. The other screens show him in a better light.

** Overall **

Three stars for the single-player version, and four stars for the multi-player version. I would have given it 5 stars had some of the above problems been fixed.


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Great game, pity it don't play properly in my player
Review date: 2007-03-16 Rating: 8 out of 10

This game is a great game hosted by Michael Barrymore. They've kept everything including the theme exactly as it was in the 80s. It's not much good playing it on your own, but with 2 or 3 players it's so much fun. It's very well designed and the graphics are good.

Unfortunately, what they don't tell you is that these interactive DVD games don't actually play properly in a lot of DVD players. I found this game was stopping in the middle of a game, so I went back to the shop and changed it but it still did the same thing. Bare in mind this is a brand new up to date DVD recorder. I might've put it down to a fault with the machine, but with my past player I've had trouble with other DVD games including Tele Addicts which wouldn't play at all and the Deal Or No Deal game not long ago which wouldn't play properly in a number of DVD players that I tried it in. However, they always seem to play perfectly on my PS2 which is obviously built to play games like this, but maybe the technology is too big for some DVD players and they should point this out before selling them.

It's alwight.
Review date: 2007-01-05 Rating: 6 out of 10

Plays just like the t.v version but beware,the questions are difficult and the youngsters in particular will struggle with the answers and just end up guessing,which i felt detracted from the game a little.
Plays better in the multi player mode because the questions are passed between teams until the correct answers are found,unlike single player mode when you only get one chance at the question.
The final round is fun as you get to pick top,middle or bottom trying to get across the screen without hitting the hot spots.
Should be a great game to play at a family party when you may get a few more brainboxes on your'e team,but playing with just my wife and two young children,i found it was only 'alwight'.

Top Draw
Review date: 2006-11-28 Rating: 10 out of 10

This has to be one of the best interactive games on the market. Gameplay and looks identical to original, yer man Barrymore in fine form, and (for dvd games) very quick. Top quality entertainment, highly recommended.

The best gameshow DVD conversion
Review date: 2006-11-16 Rating: 10 out of 10

Previous DVD games of classic quiz shows have been, well, inconsistent to say the least. Some don't have much to do with their source material (Catchphrase), some have to mimic physical feats (Bullseye) and others are just genuinly awful designs (Family Fortunes).

This Strike It Lucky conversion though is actually brilliant. In one player mode, the rules are very slightly different, but play with two or three players or teams, and its the next best thing to climbing over those screens yourself.

The questions are taxing but retain the shows format of having multiple answers that stay the same throughout their category. Instead of banking prizes, you bank subjects you think you might be good at for your final question. And the final is a frenzy of luck and fluke - just like the real thing!

Even for sad geeks like me who appreciate attention to detail will enjoy the fact that its one of the original show sets and not the poorer later redesigns. The sounds are all intact, and if you win the jackpot you get a full rendition of the theme tune. Plus Barrymore is his usual irreplacable self. The only downer is that you don't get to "strike" the screens yourself... the DVD does it for you.

If you have had bad experieinces with these DVD games before, you can trust that this one will have you playing again and again. Great stuff!

Product Details/Specifications


Artist(s):
Strike It Lucky

Recording label: Fremantle Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Fremantle Home Entertainment
EAN: 5030697010513
Binding: Interactive DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2006-11-13
Audience rating: Exempt
Region code: 2
Language: English (Original Language)

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