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1. #THE JACKBOX PARTY PACK 2 REVIEWS ANDROID#
2. #THE JACKBOX PARTY PACK 2 REVIEWS PLUS#
3. #THE JACKBOX PARTY PACK 2 REVIEWS SERIES#

Such sound effects include the sound of a toilet flushing or coins falling onto a table. Presented by a robot host called M.O.T.H.E.R., you'll be given a silly topic such as “Americans”, or “If Women Ruled the World”, and, being supplied with a handful of sound effects, you have to come up with a combination of two sounds that best describe or summarise the topic at hand. As party games go, Bidiots is okay, totally functional, but classic filler, as the basic concept of it leaves a lot to be desired.Įarwax is the most gimmicky title out of the bunch. If you run out of the money, you can contact the loan sharks, who are far and away the highlight of this game, coming with their own theme song. The goal is to bid low to ensure you make money off buying your mate’s art. For example: you’ll draw a hilarious picture, and the game decides it’s worth $500, but nobody else will know this. The catch is that they'll have been assigned a hidden and random value, so the game is to bid for the artwork and to stay low in order to make money at the end of the game. The game is two-fold: first, you will have to draw 'artwork' on your phone of a certain phrase like “cross-examination”, they you have to bid against your fellow players for the rights to each other's artwork. Overall, Fibbage 2 is simple but elegant and lends itself perfectly to the party scene.Įver wanted to go to a fancy art auction? Of course you haven't, you slob, but Bidiots will give you the option to do that at home. This game is excellent fun, as it allows the player to be creative in coming up with an answer, and also creates hilarity and an uproar when somebody eventually picks a fake answer. Then, once everyone has put their answers in, you must sniff out the real answer. It's the player's job to fill that blank as convincingly as possible and to fool your friends. For example: “William Shatner raised $25,000 for Habitat for Humanity by selling his _”. This game is a quiz in nature, and the basic gimmick is this: a question will appear on screen, and your job is to come up with a phony answer that sounds like it could be real. It also implies there's a sequel, but since it's not in the pack, we'll not worry about that. Fibbage 2Īs the title implies, Fibbage 2 is all about lying to your friends. Without further ado, let's look at the games.

#THE JACKBOX PARTY PACK 2 REVIEWS PLUS#

It's also a huge plus being able to use your phone as a neo- Buzz controller at no extra cost, so this is a huge win across the board. The clever part of this is that using your phone grants a bit of privacy to you, as other players won't be able to see your answers to the games' questions, because you can keep your phone hidden from sight.

#THE JACKBOX PARTY PACK 2 REVIEWS ANDROID#

Handily, and as is becoming a trend in modern gaming, you're supposed to use your mobile phone as a controller, either by connecting to the website and inputting a game-specific code, or using the app, provided on iOS and Android marketplaces. With the exception of Bomb Corp, the Party Pack games support up to eight players, and having eight bodies crowd around a keyboard would be chaos and lunacy. Accompanied with my new kidnapped friends, I'll be going through each of them, all of which will be getting an unofficial score out of 10 before the final “official” score for the whole game.īefore we look at each game in depth, special consideration has to be paid to the ingenious controls scheme. These games include Fibbage 2, Bidiots, Earwax, Quiplash XL, and, last but not least, Bomb Corp. Since then, the Jackbox team have diversified, and it's their other projects that make up the bones of their second Party Pack.

#THE JACKBOX PARTY PACK 2 REVIEWS SERIES#

If the name “Jackbox” sounds vaguely familiar to you, they're the devs behind the wonderful You Don't Know Jack! comedy/trivia series that was huge in the late 90s, but tapered off through the Bush years before resurfacing on mobile platforms in 2011. (a bit of a hefty price, but we are getting more than one game here)

With that being said, let's get ready to party like it's £18.99. Don't worry they'll be returned safely, unless they beat me, then they're taking a trip to the glue factory. So, I did the smart, sensible thing, and kidnapped some people off the street so they could play Jackbox's new Party Pack with me. Before you write an angry email, stop, I had the same problem, being tasked to review this set of games aimed at groups of people, and nobody to play them with.

Party game collections don't tend to sell well with hardcore gamers due to them having no friends. Reviews // 4th Dec 2015 - 7 years ago // By Ben McCurry The Jackbox Party Pack 2 Review