Wits and Wagers coming to XBLA News

This looks like the most awful piece of shovelware to have been shat out onto the service so far. I doubt I'd pay 200 points for it, let alone 800.

After a couple of rounds wouldn't 700 questions make the damn thing obsolete. Oh. I see, rip off DLC.

Pass.

Tits and Lagers would be a better...

Scrabble would be good for xbla

I thought Assault Heroes 2 was for this Wednesday! ;_;

Of course someone forgot to mention it is only up for USA, Canada and UK.
Screw the rest of the world.

I guess someone at MS should be taking geography classes during summer. When we heard the " we will focus on Europe" statement last year, we all expected to mean all Europe.

I do not think it would be too hard on MS to:
1. Explain what is the reasoning behind the "locally" released games. I do not buy the "english" language barrier as a main reason
2. Explain why they are not able to provide us with information on the release territories ahead of time, like when they first anounced the game 3 months ago

"700 questions make the damn thing obsolete"
700 are a lot though... . The thing is, will it feature an inteligent system in order to avoid repitition like Scene It! does?

"Scrabble would be good for xbla"

Common sense is not required for XBLA.

You know, it's a good service with many good games. But it could be so much better. Where's Jet Set Willy 2008? Monty on the Run Redux? Streets of Rage HD? Crazy Taxi with leaderboards? Daytona USA? Board games that aren't solely designed for nerds?

Looking at the forthcoming line-up, on both PSN and XBLA, it seems that it's all being left up to Capcom to give us the type of stuff we really want. But even then, the new 1942 remake looks all grey, dull and boring. Not colourful and fun like the original. And the new Bionic Commando looks like it's lost its charm too.

Old-school style games these days are like modern cartoons. When they do them in 2D they have crap animation and drawing and look like they were made in Flash. OR they're in pseudo-3D. Meh.

lol sounds great

You might be interested to know that Wits & Wagers was originally a board game that went nationwide at Target in 2007. It won more industry awards than any other party game in history, which is why it is coming out on the Xbox. A preliminary contract has also been signed to turn Wits & Wagers into a TV game show.

- Wits & Wagers is“trivia for people who don’t know stuff”. It is not a "nerd" game. It is a gambling game.

- 700 questions is enough for 100 games of Wits & Wagers. There is an intelligent system. The game will give questions that no one has seen, or if needed, the one that was seen the farthest in the past.

- It takes time to write questions for another language and culture. The Wits & Wagers board game will be available in German, Norwegian, Swedish, and maybe French for by October 2008. If the Xbox version is successful, other languages will also quickly follow.

To learn more about the Xbox rendition, go to http://www.HiddenPath.com.
To learn more about the original board game, go to http://www.NorthStarGames.com.

Cheers,
Dominic Crapuchettes
Designer of Wits & Wagers
http://www.NorthStarGames.com