Who Wants To Be A Millionaire 2nd Edition

• NEW! Play with your own Mii and receive phone calls from Chris Tarrant on your Wii Remote.
• Make a virtual million in the world's most popular game show.
• Challenge your friends and family in the ultimate quiz show on your Wii..
• Get into training, choose a question preference and answer personalised questions to make your Mii a millionaire..
• Create your profile and answer questions tailored exclusively to you in all-new personalised play..

Who doesn't want to be a millionaire! And, yes, that's our final answer. In Who Wants To Be A Millionaire: Second Edition, you'll find everything you love in the hit game show except, regrettably, the cash. But that's OK; consider this game a training ground for the prime-time show. Regis delivers hundreds of questions here with melodramatic music cues, sweeping stage lights, and some of his light banter to regulate the tension. The game starts at the $100 level with a round of questions that are worth increasingly more money. You can rely on the lifelines--50/50, Ask the Audience, and Phone a Friend. If the hot seat gets too hot, you can bail out at any time and take your accumulated winnings to the high-score board. But if you have the nerve, you can risk it all for the $1 million top score. .com ---- The first version of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire was the third bestselling game of 1999 and continues to fly off store shelves, so a sequel was inevitable. Who Wants To Be a Millionaire: 2nd Edition gives fans 600 more questions and brilliantly captures the feel of the TV show. The only thing missing is the cash. The game was developed by Jellyvision, famous for its irreverent You Don't Know Jack series of trivia games. Although the designers didn't have much to work with considering how Spartan the set of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire is, they did a masterful job of simulating both the mechanics and the drama of the television show, wrapping everything up in a slick interface that is immediately recognizable. It seems impossible that players could feel any tension playing Who Wants To Be a Millionaire: 2nd Edition when no real money is at stake, but the game's perfect pacing did a nice job of at least making us think we were playing for cash. That's because it doesn't deliver an immediate response when a question is answered. Just as in the game show, if you answer a question quickly host Regis Philbin will confirm or reject your answer quickly. As the game progresses and the questions get tougher there is more of a pause between your answer and the confirmation. Regis will make some comments, sometimes offering you the chance to change your mind by asking the now grating "Is that your final answer?" as the show's music and a drum roll build tension in the background. The delays were surprisingly unnerving, making us constantly second-guess our answers. Should a question prove too tough you can always fall back on your three lifelines. The designers polled 50 random people to provide data for the "Ask the Audience" lifeline, and The Reege's friends dispense audio advice for the "Phone a Friend" option. Of course, the 50/50 lifeline is also available. All these elements coalesce to form a surprisingly fun trivia game, and one of the few available that is more fun to play solo than with a group of friends (although playing cooperatively with a few buddies can be fun). Games rarely take more than 20 minutes, so it's perfect for a quick trivia fix--we just wish it came with more questions. Guess we'll have to wait for the flood of sequels that is sure to follow. --T. Byrl Baker Pros: * Atmosphere provides some tension * Near-perfect simulation of the hit TV show * Lifelines are implemented well Cons: * Questions quickly run out * Doesn't come with a million dollars