Millionaire quiz for Wii, DS

By Robert Purchese Published 17 September, 2007

Who wants to be it?

Ubisoft has phoned a friend and decided to make Wii and DS versions of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.

They're due out this November, and promise to faithfully recreate the dramatic tension of the television quiz. But without the actual money. Ah.

Still, Chris Tarrant is in the English version, while those of you in France will be confronted by Jean-Pierre Foucault. It'll be out in other areas, too, but presumably without the celebrity hosts.

Wii owners will have roughly 2000 questions to steam through as well as a fastest finger showdown round, while DS dabblers will have to be content with 1000 brain teasers.

We already know our answer, but will let you know more when it crops up.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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Comments (13) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • Fitzmogwai #1 5 years ago

    First. Woohoo. As you can tell, I'm hardly beside myself with excitement at this news.
    Edited by Fitzmogwai at 17/09/07 @ 15:10

  • Triggerhappytel #2 5 years ago

    So, this will be the same as the previous WWTBAM? games, but you can point or jab to select your answer instead...

    Knowing Ubi of late it will be utter shit.

  • Pac-man-ate-my-wife #3 5 years ago

    Perhaps they'll add a mode whereby you can slash Tarrant's face with a flick knife.

    /pre-orders

  • jaxon58 #4 5 years ago

    I was under the impression that the only reason they tampered with the format for the TV show was so they could bring out new games for Xmas. Looks like I was right.

  • L42yB #5 5 years ago

    @jaxon58 - I haven't watched in a while... what did they change with regards to the format of the show? Just curious...

  • Rirekon #6 5 years ago

    Pass.

  • jaxon58 #7 5 years ago

    They changed the money amounts, you now get to £1,000 in just 2 questions. There are only 12 questions in total too, rather than 15.

    Can't remember if the lifelines changed, don't think so.

  • L42yB #8 5 years ago

    So they did away with three of the silly questions in the beginning? That sounds like a good thing really... there was never much point to those questions...

    Don't have much hope for the game, personally... best quiz game (IMO) was the You Don't Know Jack series :) Great fun to play, and I loved "screwing" my opponents ;)

  • SirDespard #9 5 years ago

    Can you cough into the Wiimote microphone for an extra hint?

  • Rev.StuartCampbell #10 5 years ago

    What possible excuse is there for the continuing cheapskate-shitness of these releases? 1000 questions? You could get 20 times that many on a DS cart with plenty of room to spare, meaning the game would last more than two days before they started repeating. WWTBAM is actually quite fun as a game - I play it on my mobile phone while waiting in the pub - but these greedy fucks seem intent on breaking it.

  • smelly #11 5 years ago

    "What possible excuse is there for the continuing cheapskate-shitness of these releases?"


    People buy them?

    Surely even a bell like you can figure that out?

  • Dermoth #12 5 years ago

    2000 questions is quite impressive compared to the Dreamcast version, which seemed to have about 50.

  • orakio #13 5 years ago

    there was a dreamcast version of this? wow!