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The Benny (Macho) · 10-27-2007, 01:16 PM

Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action (Xbox 360):

Another of Microsoft's attempts to attract that casual audience that both the Wii and PS2 are doing a good job of courting, Scene It? is essentially Buzz for the 360. The full games comes with four Big Button Controllers which have several advantages over the Buzz ones, namely that they're wireless and each one has its own colour to help avoid mix-ups, though I would have thought that any PS3 version of Buzz would sport the same improvements. As it stands the demo allows the use of the standard 360 controller and it was a little confusing because the list of answers appear alphabetically, like so:

A: Answer 1
B: Answer 2
X: Answer 3
Y: Answer 4

Which in no way corresponds to the layout of the controller buttons, so I kept pressing Y (the highest button) for A (the highest in the list), but the full game won't have that problem.

The individual rounds are quite varied, with things like composite images missing one small detail, finish a quote and the like. Some of them took me a few turns to figure out exactly what needed doing but I would put that down to my not paying attention than any major issue with the game. One round suggested it was a memory game that would ask questions about the clip and proceeded to show a clip from King Kong atop the skyscraper. I did my best to remember the number of planes that attacked, how many Kong destroyed etc. but then it asked about the director, who plays the love interest and the name of Jack Black's character, none of which were seen in the clip.

All in all there's some potential here, especially if the different game types can keep up the variety, though the price (same as a regular new 360 game) may make it less attractive than the Buzz games. One minor criticism I'd throw its way is that the questions aren't voiced in the demo, meaning that it could easily favour the quicker reader over the person with the best movie knowledge, but then the Buzz games have always favoured the quickest reactions. Oh, and it doesn't have a presenter anywhere near as cool/annoying (depending on your opinion) as Buzz.

10-27-2007, 01:16 PM	#17
The Benny (Macho) Complainer of the year Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: England Posts: 1,291	Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action (Xbox 360): Another of Microsoft's attempts to attract that casual audience that both the Wii and PS2 are doing a good job of courting, Scene It? is essentially Buzz for the 360. The full games comes with four Big Button Controllers which have several advantages over the Buzz ones, namely that they're wireless and each one has its own colour to help avoid mix-ups, though I would have thought that any PS3 version of Buzz would sport the same improvements. As it stands the demo allows the use of the standard 360 controller and it was a little confusing because the list of answers appear alphabetically, like so: A: Answer 1 B: Answer 2 X: Answer 3 Y: Answer 4 Which in no way corresponds to the layout of the controller buttons, so I kept pressing Y (the highest button) for A (the highest in the list), but the full game won't have that problem. The individual rounds are quite varied, with things like composite images missing one small detail, finish a quote and the like. Some of them took me a few turns to figure out exactly what needed doing but I would put that down to my not paying attention than any major issue with the game. One round suggested it was a memory game that would ask questions about the clip and proceeded to show a clip from King Kong atop the skyscraper. I did my best to remember the number of planes that attacked, how many Kong destroyed etc. but then it asked about the director, who plays the love interest and the name of Jack Black's character, none of which were seen in the clip. All in all there's some potential here, especially if the different game types can keep up the variety, though the price (same as a regular new 360 game) may make it less attractive than the Buzz games. One minor criticism I'd throw its way is that the questions aren't voiced in the demo, meaning that it could easily favour the quicker reader over the person with the best movie knowledge, but then the Buzz games have always favoured the quickest reactions. Oh, and it doesn't have a presenter anywhere near as cool/annoying (depending on your opinion) as Buzz.