Jeopardy And Wheel Of Fortune Switch

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America's Greatest Game Shows: Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy, Ubisoft, Nintendo Switch, 20. Wheel of Fortune: Challenge yourself with thousands of unique word puzzles to unlock prizes, characters, and studio set items. Jeopardy: Choose your favorite categories, and test your reflexes and knowledge in the iconic game of 'answers and questions. Description: Jeopardy!(“Take a chance!”) – American TV quiz game, the author of which is Merv Griffin. The essence of the game is that the participants answer questions from the general knowledge: each question is presented in the form of a statement about a certain subject, and the player must give his answer in the form of a question, naming the desired object.

SAN FRANCISCO and CULVER CITY, CA — October 30, 2018 — Today, Ubisoft and Sony Pictures Television Networks announced that video games based on two of America’s favorite game shows, Jeopardy! ® and Wheel of Fortune ®, are available now in North and South America for digital download individually, and at retail as a compilation, on the Nintendo Switch™ system. Buy America's Greatest Game Shows: Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! By Ubisoft for Nintendo Switch at GameStop. Find release dates, customer reviews, previews, and more.

Jeopardy And Wheel Of Fortune Switch

Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! should be slam dunks as far as video game ports go. Their real-world equivalents are the kind of game shows you can play along with at home, and if I’m being honest, I probably sank more time into the PS3 versions of both games than anything else last generation.

This generation of games, however, has made me question just how easy it is. After all, Jeopardy! on PS4 was a soulless, boring waste of time, and Wheel of Fortune was only marginally better. As much as I’d like report that the games got better with their move to the Switch…well, that would be a lie.

In fact, in Jeopardy!’s case, the game is arguably worse, especially if you don’t have Nintendo’s online service. The PS4 version featured both your standard Jeopardy! game and daily challenges. On the Switch, you only get access to the daily challenges if you have an online subscription; if you don’t, that means you’re stuck with Jeopardy!, which is more like a basic trivia game with Jeopardy! branding than the game you know and love. True, there’s still Daily Doubles and categories and whatnot, but there’s no Trebek. In fact, there’s no onscreen characters at all, which was part of what made the PS3 version of the game so much fun.

(In the interest of fairness, I should note that I have PlayStation Plus, so it’s entirely possible that the daily challenges were linked to paid online and I just didn’t think about it. If that’s the case, then the division here is slightly more explicable, but it doesn’t make the lack of content any better.)

Wheel of Fortune, at least, fares a little better. You don’t have the weird-looking Pat Sajak and Vanna White who populated the previous game, but otherwise, it’s more or less what you’d expect from a Wheel of Fortune game. You get to create an onscreen avatar (though your options in terms of clothing are severely limited, particularly at the beginning of the game), you get to spin the wheel, you get to see the characters react to good and bad luck — in other words, you have a real, if Sajak-less, Wheel experience.

Even then, though, there’s not a lot going on here. Again, I’ll point the previous gen versions as doing something right: you not only had something that approximated a real Wheel of Fortune game, you also had mini-games that allowed you to hone your skills between rounds. It may not sound like much, but it added to the overall experience.

And that’s why this double-pack of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune is such a letdown: because the overall experience is just not there. If you want to guess words or answer trivia questions, it’s fine — but it never aspires to be more than simply “fine.” Given how easy it should be to make these games fun, just being fine doesn’t do the trick.

Ubisoft provided us with a America’s Greatest Game Shows: Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! Switch code for review purposes.

I love watching good game shows and playing along at home. In fact, one of my dreams is to be on a game show. While we have seen video games based on popular game shows before, I was excited to see Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! packaged together in America’s Greatest Game Shows for the Nintendo Switch. Unfortunately, though, that excitement was quickly diminished once I began playing.

I see no need in fully explaining each of these games to you, but in case you need a refresher, here you go. Wheel of Fortune is a Hangman-style game where you guess letters, and Jeopardy! is a trivia game. Each have a host asking the questions of three players competing to win money by answering the most questions correctly and occasionally wagering said money to gain more.

While other versions of these two games have done a great job at recreating the experience of being on the show, these do not. The worst part is that Ubisoft even claims in their description that you can “enjoy an authentic TV show experience.” This is far from the truth.

Wheel of Fortune is incredibly generic. Not only do the graphics look like they are from one or two console generations before the Switch, we don’t get Pat Sajdak or Vanna White. Really! Two of the most well known TV game show personalities are nowhere to be found. Also, you are supposedly able to move the Joy-Con to spin the wheel, but I couldn’t get it to work, so I ended up just pushing a button to spin. You can customize your character and set, but the options are quite limited.

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Jeopardy! is even worse. While buzzing in on your Joy-Con is nice, you don’t even get to see the show’s set. It’s always just a question view. On top of that, instead of typing in your own answer, you pick the correct answer from a multiple choice list. This means it becomes a frenzy to see who buzzes in first, because all you have to do is pick the most obvious answer. And just like Wheel, the well known host, Alex Trebek is completely absent, as is the announcer. Unlike Wheel, though, you cannot customize your character at all, and you are stuck with generic blank avatar icons.

For those who want to try, you can challenge others online, but there aren’t many people playing. Therefore, I could not actually test it out.

It is important to note there is a Family Mode, which keeps everything family-friendly so young kids can also play along. (Not that the questions for either of these shows aren’t really family-friendly to start with, but it’s still nice to have this.)

Jeopardy And Wheel Of Fortune Switch

If you want to play an authentic home-version of Wheel of Fortune or Jeopardy!, I highly recommend going in a different direction, as the Nintendo Switch versions are not good.

Jeopardy Switch Review

GAME: America’s Greatest Game Shows: Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy
PLATFORM: Nintendo SwitchPUBLISHER: Ubisoft
ESRB: E for Everyone
MSRP: $39.99 US
OBTAINED: Provided by Publisher for press purposes

Steve is the Senior Editor of NintendoFuse and co-host of the NintendoFuse Podcast. He’s been a Nintendo gamer since age 6 and has been on staff with NintendoFuse since 2008.