Nintendo fans looking for their own console adaption of the popular Scene It? game series finally get it on the Wii in this follow-up to the Xbox 360 game. Questions come in a variety of trivia styles and cover popular movies from the last thirty years of cinema.
You’ll test your movie knowledge through three rounds and then a final cut round, which puts the heat on the leader to answer correctly or else lose ground to rivals. A lot of the game's appeal is its variety of inventive quiz formats which expand on traditional question styles. One variant involves watching short movie clips and answering questions from the clips like 'What was the first exercise Mr. Miyagi asks of Daniel?’. For those who remember the release dates of popular movies, there’s a variant where you arrange the movies in the order they hit the theaters. This version of Scene It? won’t really shock anyone who’s played the previous Xbox 360 editions. In fact, you’ll find it more limited.
When it comes to the audio and visuals, there are some positives and negatives. The host’s lip-synching lags with the audio a bit, but the font size is straight up tiny. It’s bad enough for new or casual gamers to try and respond in a quick manner, but having to squint hurts the performance even more. Unless you have a large, widescreen television, plan on scooching a chair very close to the screen. And when I say large I mean minimum 50” tv because we were playing it on a 42” Vizio and it looked a little rough. The new (and very stereotypical) avatar types, twelve in all, match the movie themes rather well. Customization options, or the inclusion of Mii support like 360 avatars would have been nice, but your avatars are basically kept out of the way until your score is tallied anyways.
There’s nothing revolutionary here and if you’ve played Scene It? on the Xbox 360, or one of the multiple board variations, then you have a good idea of what’s going on here. And while there aren't many trivia game filling up the Wii library at the moment, this one just doesn’t really make the situation any better. Sure there are enough questions to avoid hearing the same ones twice (although there were a couple instances where questions repeated during our review session), but there’s nothing original enough here to warrant wanting to play through. If you haven’t played either version on the 360, consider yourself a VERY casual gamer, and are just dying to play movie trivia on the Wii, this game is for you. However, if you have a 360, have played either of the oler versions on 360, crave excitement beyond pressing a button, you’re better off looking elsewhere for your fun.
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