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Ole! To all you football fans, I-Imagine Interactive’s Football Genius: The Ultimate Quiz for Xbox Live is all about the European type of football, soccer (so don’t confuse the title with American football).
As the title suggests, it is a quiz game all about the sport of soccer and it’s players. It covers everything about the sport: all the players past and present, all the countries, the cups, the coaches, everything. If there is something to know about the sport, it is in this game.
Jump On the Field and Kick It Hard
The game is broken into different rounds of trivia with a shorter half-time and longer full-time game.
Half-time consists of four trivia games. The first is Kick Off, the typical trivia game you are use too where they ask a question and you pick from four possible answers.
Next is Match It, where they give you a soccer ball filled with players and coaches and you must match the player's or coach's name to his face. Easy enough.
Next is Get the Picture where they show you a picture of something (for example, two players getting ready to start the game some other action shot) and you have to answer questions about it (name the layers, the teams, the year, etc.)
Tast one is Throw In where you are shown only clues (he was born in 1960, lives in London, etc.) and you guess the player.
Full-Time has the same games but they added two games: Phased Out, where you guess who is in the picture as it slowly comes into focus, and On Side, where you have to match facts with players.
Each time you score correctly in any of the games you are given 500 points and, of course, are docked points when you are wrong.
You can also play multiplayer with your friends or online up to four people. You use your Xbox Live avatar in the game, too. The game keeps track of achievements and leaderboards so you can brag to friends that you know more then they do. It’s definitely a fun party game for you soccer buffs.
Throw in the Hat Trick
It’s nice that they have different types of trivia games rather than the same type the whole game. I liked “Get The Picture” the best because it was easier to guess the answer; for instance if the question is what two teams are playing, you can tell by the uniforms, so basically the questions are easier unless you have no idea what is going in the picture.
At times, the words can be a little too small and you might not be able to read the answer, especially when there are multiple answers.
The game can get repetitive after awhile since there are only six types of games and, in Full-Time, you play a couple games twice. After a few weeks you may become exhausted with this game. There are more than 3500 questions so at least that adds to the replay value.
It would be cool if they allowed you to pick which type of game you wanted to play - rather than the games being picked for you - or at least a separate section when you can play a single type of game. Like I said, I really like “Get The Picture” so it would be nice to be able to play that one as much as I wanted.
GOAL!
I thought the questions and games were fun and challenging and, if you are a fan of soccer, it can definitely be a good challenge.
The questions offer a decent and challenging mix that includes knowledge of the whole sport, past and classic games and players (includnig personal information about the players).
This would be a great game to play with the guys (and gals) right before a big game or anytime you want an extra challenge. The layout is nice, the gameplay is fun and there is some nice music in the game as well.
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