You Don't Know Jack (PlayStation)

GameSpot editors' review

• CNET editors' rating: 3.5 stars Very good
  Detailed editors' rating
  Overall score: 7.4 (3.5 stars)

• Reviewed by:
  Ryan Donald
• Reviewed on: 12/07/1999
• Updated on: 05/02/2000
• Released on: 10/31/1999
• Originally published on GameSpot: You Don't Know Jack (PlayStation) Review

While You Don't Know Jack is based on a PC trivia game that was originally released more than five years ago, the game is still just as much fun today, for PlayStation owners playing it for the first time, as it was when it first came out.

The game takes the game show approach but gives it a very Dennis Miller-style sense of humor, almost like Jeopardy for smartasses. Throughout the game you'll be choosing categories that are filled with various questions. Categories include "Hey, Where'd That Gerbil Go?" and "A Nun in a Blender." After selecting a category, the announcer drops a subtle hint concerning how the question he's about to ask will relate to the chosen category, effectively segueing into the question. The questions are mostly multiple choice, giving you four different answers to choose from. Correct answers earn you dollars; wrong ones subtract money from your score. To break up the monotony of the multiple-choice questions, three special types of questions occasionally come into play. The Dis or Dat question is for only one contestant to play, and as the name implies, it asks you to identify something as either "this or that." The three-way question challenges the players to match up one word or a phrase with one of three phrases. The Jack Attack is the final question type and is set up much like the three-way except it's faster and there's only one phrase to match up with the cycling list of answers.

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