You Don’t Know Jack Vol. 5 – Offline
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The moderator of You Don’t Know Jack might be the only game show host in the history of celebrity judges, buzzers, and door-number-fours to consistently insult the contestants. (Well, maybe Bob Eubanks on a really terrible day.) But Jack gets away with it–plus a whole lot of stuff that Bob Barker has only dreamed of–in a Gen-X answer to the typical trivia game format.
There’s a lot to be said for earlier incarnations of Jack, including the original moderator (newer voices seem to be doing a derivative imitation) and sparse graphics that seemed retrocool in a You Bet Your Life 1950’s fashion. But You Don’t Know Jack–Offline offers Internet connectivity as well as Wired Magazine/Matrix-influenced screen decor.
Aesthetics aside, the brilliance of the game is its intersection of pop-culture history–movie and box characters, primarily–with textbook knowledge. Questions are place owing to the Jack blender until a quiz emerges that includes particle physics and Starsky & Hutch. Because of the gifted (and prevalent) double entendres, You Don’t Know Jack–Offline isn’t appropriate family fare. Instead, pick up a copy for your favorite procrastinating graduate school apprentice. They might not end their doctoral thesis, but their life will never be the same. –Jennifer Buckendorff
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I was a huge fan of the YDKJ sports meeting in the 90s, and I was excited to see that the two newer versions were supposed to be Mac-compatible. I bought YDKJOL and was disappointed to learn that it does not work on newer Macs (MacBook or MacBook Pro).
The game itself might be a lot of fun, but I am not able to note on that.
Rating: 1 / 5
This game is fun and amusing at the same time, It helps to have a excellent sense of humor when playing any of the YDKJ sports meeting, and this one is no different. I like the Did or Dat category.
It also works on Windows XP.
Rating: 5 / 5
YDKJOL isn’t a terrible game. It has more questions then the previous sports meeting in the durable PC series, The best host in the game-Cookie-is again at the helm making sure that your quest for game dollars is a sarcastic and smart allecky one, and those phoney commercials at the end of the game as always are gold. So why not 5 stars? Well this game has got some flaws, but they all mostly fall in the same catagory. One is that it takes away from game 4, THE RIDE format, which in my opinion was the best. THE RIDE helped with the looping question conundrum as well as the possiblity that anyone can win near the end, unlike others where it is sometimes pretty obvious. But since this game supposed to be best of the netshow game, it was unavoidable. The largest flaw is the extreme re-use fo grown-up jokes, music and sound bites from previous sports meeting, particularly game 3. Offline was the frame to hold the new questions on, for those who do not get the netshow, but I guess the jokes and sound slipped off the side. Regardless, Offline is not a terrible game, it is YDKJ, it is still a blast, and if you haven’t played any of the sports meeting, it’s a excellent place to start, and veterans will more then likely want it too. Those veterans but aren’t going to find anything exciting or new, with the exception of the new Pissed About a Question feature, a slightly new question type in which mad players who vented to the company with their frustrations get well, vented back. Over all, a excellent game, but it could have been better.
Rating: 4 / 5