The Guy Game (PlayStation 2)

GameSpot editors' review

• CNET editors' rating: 3.5 stars Very good
  Detailed editors' rating
  Overall score: 7.5 (3.5 stars)

• Reviewed by:
  Jeff Gerstmann
• Reviewed on: 09/01/2004
• Released on: 08/31/2004
• Originally published on GameSpot: The Guy Game (PlayStation 2) Review

What happens when you take one part You Don't Know Jack and cross it with the drunken college girl antics of the Girls Gone Wild video series? This burning question has been with us for eons, but now, we finally have the answer thanks to Top Heavy Studios' first release, The Guy Game. This topless trivia game is a slickly produced product that has some pretty strong appeal to a specific audience.

That audience is, obviously, the college-aged male. Stereotypically, the college guy is usually drunk and always on the lookout for a little nudity. The Guy Game plays to this stereotype by taking what would otherwise be a standard trivia game and adding college girls--most of them in a semidrunken stupor--attempting to answer trivia questions in a series of videos shot during spring break at South Padre Island. On top of that, the game has a free-form drinking game called President, which is perhaps better known in some circles as "Presidents and A**holes" or simply "A**hole," built right in.

The game is broken up into several "episodes," each of which features a different set of girls, and it contains more than 1,000 questions in all, though not all of these questions are asked on video. From there, the game is further broken down into four rounds. The first round has you answering trivia questions. Then, one of the girls is asked the same questions, and much like in a game played fairly often on Howard Stern's radio show, it's up to you to guess if the girl will answer the questions correctly or incorrectly, which earns you bonus points. The trivia in the game is pretty good, varied, and not overly difficult. One minute you'll be asked to remember something from the TV show, Friends, the next be asked about Miles Davis, Avogadro's Number, and so on.

Round two is a simple little ball-based competition. Each game has you controlling a ball, though one is a sort of virtual skee-ball, one is a sort of four-way soccer match, and the last has you trying to keep your ball on a platform while knocking the others over the edge. These action-oriented games are really basic, but they're well-executed and fun with four players.

In round three, you're back to answering trivia. On top of that, the questions are again posed to the girls. This time, they get every question wrong, but it's up to you to guess which incorrect answer they'll give. Since many of the girls are plainly intoxicated, it's usually pretty easy to guess which dumb answer they'll come up with. Again, getting these right will earn you bonus points.

Bonus points go toward your score, but they also have a much larger purpose. The catch to the video in the game is that if the girls miss the question, they have to flash their breasts on camera. But at first, those flashes will be blocked by a big Guy Game banner. Your bonus points fill up the "flash-o-meter." Once it's halfway full, the banner becomes a pixelated mosaic that obscures the action. But once you get the meter up into the red zone, the videos play uncensored, and you'll unlock that episode for play anytime. You can play episodes over again with different questions, though unfortunately, this alternate trivia mode doesn't translate into new questions for the girls. If you fail to get the meter full by the end of round three, you won't get to continue on to the final round.

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