Trivia Rumble to Shake Things Up?
Thursday, July 15, 2010That’s right, I can make really awful puns as part of article copy too, and I’m not afraid to do so. I’m controversial, like Geraldo.
Professional wrestling. When you think of it, what is the first thing you think of? Yes, that’s right, me too. Trivial Pursuit! “Who’s buried in Grant’s tomb?” echoes mockingly in my head every time I see Cena, Orton or Undertaker on TV, and if you’re like me, you also have, following that echo, the replying echo reminding you that it was a trick question, that both Grant AND his wife are buried in his tomb. Bastard game makers!
Speaking of… that brings us to Black Dragon Games, and SimGary’s latest masterpiece, debuting to a thronging… throng… of fans who want a game that both stimulates their love of wrestling AND lets them prove to others that they do more than just mindlessly watch wrestling and get nothing out of it - they get TRIVIA out of it!
Paraphrasing directly from Gary’s post about the game on BDG, “the game is still fairly early in the development stage and some of the screens may not be exactly how they look in the final version”.
In other news, water is wet, and Trivia Rumble Mode is the main mode of the game. You choose any wrestler and compete in a rumble type match where you must answer questions about your opponents to eliminate them from the match. You will also have to answer questions about your character in order to regain stamina and defend yourself - this section is pending, so inclusion of mention of it is baffling at best.
Trivia Challenge Mode is basically an old school trivia game. You can choose between two types of games. The first one is called “Test Your Knowledge” and the second is “3-Count Challenge”. With Test Your Knowledge, you will get to choose anywhere from 10 to 50 questions that will be randomly taken from every wrestler’s profiles in the database as well as from the general non-wrestler specific questions. Once you finish the quiz, you will be shown your score. In 3-Count Challenge, you can choose from 20 to 50 questions to answer, but you can only get 3 questions wrong before you are eliminated. On each question, there is also a 20 second time limit.
A Wrestler Editor, Statistics, Options and Unlockables, mp3 audio and even video examples of some of the game’s features being demonstrated by “Gaz”, can be found at Black Dragon Games’ site proper, which you can reach by clicking here: http://www.blackdragongames.co.uk/forum/index.php?showtopic=1372.
The BDG forums comments are filled with optimistic and appreciative comments and questions regarding the game, so kudos to Gary and the Black Dragons for this latest offering, it sounds like it is actually another quality piece of software in the offering. Perhaps it will help us nurse away our bitterness at never being able to see the Binogeddon Wrestling Simulator. If anybody can do it, Gary can! Good work!
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