Who wants to be a Millionaire 2nd Edition

Who wants to be a Millionaire has long been a regular feature on the TV and despite it being around for as long as anyone can remember, it’s not lost a bit of its appeal.

So if you’ve ever fancied yourself as the next genius, you’ll be able to test your general knowledge skills with the latest mobile edition of the quiz show. But, if you’re like the rest of us, you’ll probably cut your losses and run with the first £1,000 you make!

OK, so for those of you who aren’t familiar with the game here’s a brief summary. You start the game with the fastest finger round, where you must correctly place the listed items in order. The quicker you do this the more points you receive as a bonus. The next stage is when the game starts properly. You have a series of questions which you must try and answer correctly. For every correct answer you get to earn more money in roughly double the previous increment – up until you reach the top prize of £1,000,000.

To help you get the maximum prize you are presented with three lifelines. As in the TV show they are ‘50:50’, ‘call a friend’ and ‘ask the audience’. The 50:50 will take away two possible wrong answers leaving you with one wrong and one correct answer. Calling a friend will temporarily stop the timer as you are then given a ‘definite answer’ from a computer generated friend – you then get to decide whether to trust this answer or indeed not to. Finally, ‘asking the audience’ will bring a simulated audience response which will lead you to hopefully draw the right answer from.

As mentioned these lifelines are to be taken with a bit of scrutiny as they aren’t always correct and could well lead you from gaining a huge score or prize and leave you with a rather meagre amount. From my experience, just about everyone out there will be doing very well indeed if they’ve managed to get half way through the game with all your life-lines intact.

The topics covered in the game range far and wide, from classical subjects to more modern popular culture. For example one question may cover ‘who carved the classical statue David?’ and give you the names of the four Teenage Hero Mutant Turtles (and yes I know they were named after famous artists), the next question could be ‘What was the title of Coldplay’s 2005 album?’

In truth the game gives you a really realistic and engaging game. I found myself totally getting sucked into the experience and with the clock ticking down as you try to think of the right answer, you’re really able to feel like you’re in the hot-seat.

Rating 91%

Positives

Plenty of new questions which follow on from the first edition

Fastest finger can be turned on or off

Very realistic and engrossing

Highly addictive

Enjoyable

Good graphics – even the cheque being written out was a nice touch

Great sound effects – just like the TV show

Negatives

Some questions will totally flummox you – even at the earliest stages

A repetitive formula

No interesting cut-away shots of Chris Tarrant