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- Reviewed on: 08/01/2007
- Released on: 07/23/2007
- Originally published on GameSpot: Deal or No Deal (DS) Review
By all accounts, making a game based on NBC's hit game show Deal or No Deal should be the most idiot-proof concept in the world. The premise is pathetically simple: You are presented with 26 briefcases, each of which contains one of 26 different dollar amounts in random order. You pick a case for yourself and then start eliminating other cases to try to narrow down what amount you've picked out for yourself. All the while, you also entertain offers from a mysterious banker who tries to buy you out before you can find out how much your case contains. All that babble aside, it's basically a game that boils down to randomly picking numbers and hoping for the best. It might not make for an especially interesting video game (it certainly didn't in the PC version released earlier this year), but if the template is followed correctly, it should be, if nothing else, functional. However, Deal or No Deal for the DS somehow manages to screw it up, turning in a completely broken translation of the game.
How do you break Deal or No Deal? It's quite simple, really: just fail to randomize the dollar amounts. Instead of distributing the dollar amounts randomly at the start of each game, the game only uses a series of predetermined templates. This means that you will get specific distributions of amounts multiple times as you continue to play through the game. If you happen upon one you've already played and happen to remember where stuff was, you can pretty much get the best deal every single time.
By being entirely busted and retailing for a full $30, Deal or No Deal for the DS wins the award for evilest retail product of the year so far.
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