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Overall, Who Wants To Be a Millionaire 2012 Edition for Xbox is a pass. While the Kinect voice controls are good, and the graphics are spiffy and match the show the gameplay and audio need some serious work:

Controls:

The Kinect controls are unnecessary but work well. Saying the answers worked great for me, and confirming my Final Answer via voice was fun.

Graphics:

It's the new 2010 set rendered in full glory. Initially, the camera starts out with a pan just like the show, but then just stays fixed on your avatar the whole game.

Gameplay:

Clearly the developers haven't seen the actual show, because this plays more like the Facebook game than the actual show. The dollar values are incorrect on the questions, and the lifelines are not correct. Instead of having all three lifelines available when you start the game, you only get 2 "Jump the Question" lifelines in round one, then you get "Ask the Audience" in round two. It's such a no brainer that Millionaire allows all three lifelines from the start of the game, they must have copied this from the code for the Facebook game.

Audio:

The 'host' is bland and boring, and at this price they should have licensed Meredith to host the video game. The audio cues are all wrong, and commonly overlap creating a messy sounding game that has me reaching for the remote to turn it up and down.

Overall, as a person who loves the show, I can't recommend the game. It's clearly rushed, and no production value was put into it.

What's the point of a "Game Show" game, when I can't even play the same game I see on TV? Play the free Facebook game instead, it's more fun.

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Why is this kinect? I think everyone I know with this game asks this. The game has horrible detection it contastanly says i am not there. Also to get all the achievements you need a good 3 hours with another person. What good is that if you see player 1 answer first?

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This game is a prime example of when Kinect is poorly implemented, or at least the motion portion of the game. Tell me, what's the point of having standing in front of a TV selecting trivia answers with your hands? You know, besides it taking twice as long... Well as far as I can tell, there isn't a point.

The game also lets you select answers via voice which is really all the game needs, but even this is destroyed. I figured I'd be able to sit on the couch and select answers with my voice, but the motion controls are CONSTANTLY getting in the way. 80% of the time I sit down it tells me to stand back up so the Kinect can recognize me (and there's no way to disable the motion controls and just use voice as far as I can tell). The other 20% of the time it lets me sit down and play with voice, the motion controls think my hands are erratically moving around and the game ends up selecting random answers. Oh, and if you're sitting and someone else happens to walk into frame (just beside you, not even in front of you), the game instantly gets confused and needs you to stand back up to identify yourself again. It's ridiculously frustrating for something that should be so simple.

Oh, and since it's a Kinect game it doesn't seem to allow you to select answers with your controller either, so you're either stuck with pointless motion controls or voice controls that are absolutely crippled by the motion controls. Oh and if you're playing two player, you can forget about using voice controls as that's not supported.

The game itself is alright, even though the format doesn't seem very true to the real game. The host that's never seen is fairly lifeless and your avatar doesn't do much. I paid $20 for the game and I truly feel I overpaid by about $15. This game is crippled by a poor control scheme, and that's an insane thing to say for as something as simple as a trivia game. Microsoft created a technological wonder with the Kinect and its sad to see games like this utilizing it in such a poor manner.

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It is not like the game on facebook or TV. Only used it once. Maybe I will use try it again. Can not see my family getting into it.

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good price for game hate that its only kinect gave away to sister shipped fast was new okay for price and if you like kinect