![]() Overall though, the variety on offer in The Jackbox Party Pack 5 is excellent. It’s a bit disappointing, so just make sure you play with an even number of players. While some of the raps that the bot generated in Mad Verse City had us chuckling, it was unable to read invention cues in Patently Stupid, meaning that the creations it came up with had nothing to do with the topic. It spoils the fun a little, as the bots aren’t very intelligent – most noticeably in Patently Stupid. But play with an odd number in Mad Verse City or Patently Stupid, and the game will put a bot in your game. Aside from You Don’t Know Jack (which has a minimum requirement of two), the other three games all need three players. Zeeple Dome is the only game that can be played in single-player. All working together, the aim is to get the best score possible. Zeeple Dome is a little like a multiplayer Angry Birds each player has their own avatar, and using their smartphone screen, they need to drag a line to ‘fling’ themselves to hit various targets. ![]() That’s not necessarily a bad thing – it just makes a change. Last up is the unusual Zeeple Dome, which is one of the most ‘gamey’ games to be featured in a Jackbox Party Pack. It’s one of the quickest games to get through in The Jackbox Party Pack 5, but it can be pretty fun, providing you’re playing with a group of people with enough ingenuity to come up with interesting scenarios. The idea is to come up with something that will split opinion – the more divisive, the more points you’ll score. It’ll be a yes or no question, and players will need to vote on what they’d do in that situation. The game generates a partially-completed scenario, and it’s up to you to add the last word or two to finish it. Next up is Split the Room, a game that’s all about dividing opinion. Drawing is as awkward as ever on your touchscreen device, but then that’s always been part of the fun. (Yes, maturity rules in my household!) Here followed a number of ridiculous designs, including some specially-designed underpants and a Balls-be-Gone pair of scissors. As expected from any Jackbox Game, it’s a good excuse for vulgarity – one problem we had to solve was “I have too many ballbags”. By inputting random words, the game will generate a ‘problem’ that needs to be solved with a new invention. It’s a game that combines funny wordplay with drawing – think Drawful with added meaning. With each robot having its own unique electronic-sounding voice, it makes for some serious hilarity.Ĭlosely behind Mad Verse City in terms of potential hilarity is Patently Stupid. This is a first for Jackbox – using text-to-speech technology to repeat exactly what you’ve typed in, rather than skirting around your “blanks”. You then repeat the process, finishing up with a four-line rap which your robot will then perform for you. It’s up to you to come up with a full line – ideally that rhymes – to follow on from it. Then, using that one word it’ll give you the first line of your ‘rap’. Mad Verse City puts you head-to-head against another player, first giving you a single prompt to come up with one word. For me, that accolade has to go to the incredible Mad Verse City – a game in which you become a giant, rap-battling robot. While Full Steam is just as good as You Don’t Know Jack has ever been, it’s probably not the stand-out game in The Jackbox Party Pack 5. ![]() But if you’ve played earlier version of You Don’t Know Jack to death, you’ll be at least relieved to know that Full Stream is, of course, made up of entirely new questions. There’s not much new – the farcical Cookie Masterson is back as host, with the same brand of humour that we’ve grown to love. It follows the same formula that we’ve seen in the last few iterations of You Don’t Know Jack – ten hilariously-phrased pop culture questions, including a fast-paced ‘Dis or Dat’ round and ‘Jack Attack’, both of which have always been the highlights of the game. Of the five games in the new collection, You Don’t Know Jack: Full Stream seems to be the leading title. Every game has its own merits – there are no duds here. I think Quiplash still remains my favourite single game of all time, but as a collection, The Jackbox Party Pack 5 is as impressive as the series has ever been. And despite the games remaining overtly American (how the hell am I, a British person, meant to know what colour a Tylenol tablet is?), there’s no denying just how much fun they are. Without fail, if people come over to the house, it’s time to crack out one Jackbox game or another.Įven before the games were widely available in the UK, I’d imported a copy of You Don’t Know Jack for PS3 from America.
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