Playing by your lonesome isn't that rewarding, and online play can be frustrating with all those cheap answer grinders out there. You Don't Know Jack is undoubtedly best played in person with friends, where you can literally screw someone and force them to answer a question in five seconds. If you have the controllers and the couch, you can do a lot worse.
You Don't Know Jack
Jackbox Games · Feb 8, 2011
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The award-winning You Don't Know Jack trivia franchise is back! The pioneer of the interactive game show format, You Don't Know Jack returns with all-new questions and classic features such as Screw Your Neighbor and commercial parodies. Filled with more than 15 hours of game play, You Don't Know Jack offers multiplayer action and online challenges. Along with classic quiz modes such as the DisOrDat and the Jack Attack, You Don't Know Jack offers features like the Wrong Answer of the Game and collectible prizes, with more than 70 full episodes of trivia quiz show.
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- 9.0With 73 episodes to play, YDKJ offers considerable shelf time before you start unintentionally memorizing answers. Fortunately, four extra packs with 10 episodes each will be available via DLC - maybe mention on your next e-vite you'll be passing around a bucket for donations.
- YDKJ marries difficult trivia with excellent presentation, biting humor, and an unpredictability that will make you look forward to every episode. All that with a reasonable sticker price and DLC that adds additional episodes means that YDKJ is a party game staple. Go buy it.
- 9.0If you're a Jack virgin, you'll likely be surprised at how well the game succeeds even without nostalgia. This is a formula that just works and, with the addition of a modern presentation and some online options (thanks, Jellyvision and THQ!), it's been updated for a new audience.
- 8.0I think it’s interesting that there’s some question as to whether YDKJ would’ve been better served as a purely downloadable title, since the series origins lie in the multimedia heyday of the mid-90s, where the CD-ROM storage medium itself was the lynchpin of the entire experience. Either way, I think this game represents a terrific value, not just in terms of sheer volume, but the level of craft that is so often notably absent from trivia video games.
- 8.4The little changes of gameplay in comparison to other entries, especially the ability to allow everyone to answer a question, make for a better experience. There's lots of fun and humor to be found in Jack; I highly recommend that you always select "I Don't Care" for choosing a name on local multiplayer. While I won't be having marathon sessions of You Don't Know Jack anytime soon, I can see myself playing a game or two every day for a long, long time.
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