We bought the original Buzz before Christmas and as a party game it can't be beaten (well OK, maybe Singstar can have the edge at times...). I quickly went out and got this version hoping for more of the same and to be honest was not disappointed. I bought it with a set of buzzers too because one of the best new features is that you can play with up to 8 people (if you have 2 sets of buzzers).
So what's it like? Well I thought it was pretty good. The format has been polished a little so that it doesn't continually cut back to the contestants, thus speeding the flow of the game up. The 8 player game is OK, but you can't play a full quiz, only selected rounds which is a shame (unless I missed that option!).
The rounds themselves are much more picture and video based which is where the first problem is: some of the pictures are pretty tough to recognise especially those of 'places'. Some of the pictures of celebs seem to have been taken on Oscar night or something, so they often look quite different to what you'd expect.
There are a couple of new rounds in there - ask a friend which requires you to nominate someone to answer the question and then you share the points (plus or minus depending on their answer!). There's also a round where you get two lives each and then when you get a question right, you get to 'shoot' a life from one of the other players.
Based more around general knowledge, the level of the questions is good and the balance seemed good too in fact, the whole game seemed well balanced to me.
In the end though I'm only giving this a 4. Why? Well when put to the test on Saturday night, we played two rounds and then loaded up the music quiz and stuck with that for longer despite the fact that one person always had to sit out. People in the group found that the hard to recognise pictures were frustrating and this ultimately spoiled the whole experience.
In summary though, it's well worth a purchase for 'more of the same but different', and you won't be consigning the old one to the bin if you own it either!