Date played: May 6th
Platform: PS4
I spent some time with my brother, his wife, and 3 other people last night. We ended up spending most of it playing Jack Box Party Pack 3, which is about as close to a physical board game as I've seen a video game. The concept is really cool. The host opens up a match on the PS4, then people join the game with their cell phones by going to a website and typing in a code. Players choose or write their answers on their phone, and the results are compiled on the TV. It's a great concept and it works flawlessly.
The games themselves are fantastic. For example, in Trivia Murder Party, trivia questions are asked and everyone answers. When someone gets the wrong answer, they play a mini-game to see if they live or die. For example, one of the mini-games was a speedy math contest. At the end, the dead players compete against the living, answering questions until someone wins.
Tee K.O. is a very unique game where players must draw something funny on their smart phone, using a rudimentary paint application. They must then write funny slogans. At the end, the images and slogans are randomly combined to create t-shirts. People then vote on the best t-shirt. This one was really funny... The winner was a badly drawn skull-car with the slogan "Life is Life".
Quiplash was great too. The game presents a topic, and people must write funny things as their answer. For example, make a funny name for a movie starring an Otter. "Get Otter Here!" was the winner on that one!
My favorite of the games was Fakin' It. In this game, a question is presented to all players on their phones, except for one person, who is the faker. The objective is to find out who the faker is. An example question could be "Raise your hand if you have buttons on your shirt", or "Make the face you would have at a Justin Bieber concert". Based on the reaction of all players, people then vote to find out who the faker is. It's really great, and it forces people to look at each other and study their reactions. I formed a good team with one of my brothers because we would kind of use each other as a baseline for the questions. It worked, but it was also easy for both of us to know when the other was the faker because of it.
Jack Box Party Pack 3 is a lot of easy, stupid fun. I think I just might need to buy it for my next group activity. When a few players dropped out, we swapped out Jack Box for a few rounds of 2V2, local multiplayer Rocket League, and it was a blast, as usual.
Platform: PS4
I spent some time with my brother, his wife, and 3 other people last night. We ended up spending most of it playing Jack Box Party Pack 3, which is about as close to a physical board game as I've seen a video game. The concept is really cool. The host opens up a match on the PS4, then people join the game with their cell phones by going to a website and typing in a code. Players choose or write their answers on their phone, and the results are compiled on the TV. It's a great concept and it works flawlessly.
The games themselves are fantastic. For example, in Trivia Murder Party, trivia questions are asked and everyone answers. When someone gets the wrong answer, they play a mini-game to see if they live or die. For example, one of the mini-games was a speedy math contest. At the end, the dead players compete against the living, answering questions until someone wins.
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| My t-shirt got second place! |
Quiplash was great too. The game presents a topic, and people must write funny things as their answer. For example, make a funny name for a movie starring an Otter. "Get Otter Here!" was the winner on that one!
My favorite of the games was Fakin' It. In this game, a question is presented to all players on their phones, except for one person, who is the faker. The objective is to find out who the faker is. An example question could be "Raise your hand if you have buttons on your shirt", or "Make the face you would have at a Justin Bieber concert". Based on the reaction of all players, people then vote to find out who the faker is. It's really great, and it forces people to look at each other and study their reactions. I formed a good team with one of my brothers because we would kind of use each other as a baseline for the questions. It worked, but it was also easy for both of us to know when the other was the faker because of it.
Jack Box Party Pack 3 is a lot of easy, stupid fun. I think I just might need to buy it for my next group activity. When a few players dropped out, we swapped out Jack Box for a few rounds of 2V2, local multiplayer Rocket League, and it was a blast, as usual.
