The Price Is Right Interactive DVD Game [Interactive DVD]

This game is great fun. It combines all the elements of the Tv Show, as well as different version.

Would be great for a night in with a few drinks, or even your own game show evening!

The only trouble I had with this dvd was that, at times it did jump and bits were missed.

Other than that, another great dvd game!

This DVD starts out to replicate the TV experience - and doesn't quite succeed. There is a 4-player mode, in which 3 players get through to spin the big wheel, and a 3-player mode, in which 2 players get through to spin. On the way, the players go through the introductory round, where they have to guess the price of an expensive object, and then play another pricing game.

In the introductory round, you get 5 figures from which you can choose, and the winner is the one to get the closest without going bust; except that this is not completely the case. If all of you are over, then the one who is lowest will win.

I have counted 5 pricing games. In Cliffhanger you have to price 3 inexpensive objects to within a total of 25 pence. These objects cost between 30p and £3, and what makes this difficult is that the objects are generic, e.g. "some" toothpaste - don't know the quantity or the brand. Still, you do only have 5 choices, which means that often you will go for the middle one, to have the best chance to be the least off. Not much of a game.

There is High and Low, where you have to choose the 3 most expensive items out of 6 cheap items - but you only have 3 selections to choose from. In Pick a Pair you have to guess which 2 out of 4 cheap items are the same price - you have 4 combinations to choose from. You have the same odds in Hole in One, and you don't take the shot yourself; all you can do to influence the shot is to rank the objects in order as correctly as possible. Finally, there is Walk the Line, where you have an expensive object to price, and about a 1 in 6 chance of winning. Overall, not really gripping.

You can't influence how strongly you spin the wheel in the next round, and you can't even press the Ranging button to determine how close you can be in the Showcase Showdown (the computer does that for you). At least you have 10 different choices to choose from in the Showcase; shame that in 3 games the same Showcase came up twice, so I already knew the answer the second time.

Mind you, that's the only answer I knew. Good luck guessing how much "some" coffee will cost, and if you are wrong you don't get the right answer - you are just told "bad luck".

Finally, there is a 2-person mode. The first person to get 3 introductory rounds and 3 pricing games correct gets to compete against their opponent spinning the Wheel. If you lose, back to the introductory rounds. If you win, you go to the Showcase Showdown; and if you lose that, back to the introductory rounds. Hang on - you have to win 3 pricing games to progress anywhere? That takes so-o-o-o long.

Sadly, despite Joe Pasquale's best, there is no real atmosphere. Yes, it is nice to have an energetic voice-over artist as well, but there is no continuity. Any prices you win or compete for - they are forgotten as soon as they leave the screen. There's no "Higher" and "Lower" from the audience when you consider the prices. I would sooner have had more choices for the pricing game, but have two guesses: one where you give a price to the audience, and get their "Higher" or "Lower" opinion, and then the real guess.

Overall, low atmosphere, difficult games, and I've seen one of the Showcases twice in 3 games. Hardly a formula for repeated use.

Really scrapping the barrel on this one. Just terrible played it once thats more than I could take,please leave well alone.