Deal or No Deal DVD Game
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Toys and Games Reviews of Deal or No Deal DVD Game
Customer Review: The Presentation Is Rather Different Here.
Summary: 3 Stars
DEAL OR NO DEAL is the most popular and, so far, the hottest game show on television. The game itself appeals to a large audience because of the average people that appear as contestants, host Howie Mandel's connection with normal people, twenty-six beautiful women who just open numbered metal cash cases, and the emotional manipulation of the audience by the show's producers. Combined together in a game show involving no knowledge whatsoever in a high stakes game of playing the odds, and you've got the set up of DEAL OR NO DEAL. It should come as no surprise, then, that the creators of the show have licensed several at home versions of the game.
One of my family members is a huge DEAL OR NO DEAL fan and I purchased the INTERACTIVE DVD version of the game for him as a gift. We played the game several times on our own and at a recent family gathering split the family into teams for team-style play. We were able to do this because the game allows both single and double play.
Like the show, you one case out of twenty-six. You select six other cases to open. Then Howie receives a telephone call from the banker who offers you a sum of money. You can then either choose to take the offer or continue opening cases. If you continue, you open five cases and the format repeats until you're opening one case at a time. There are a couple of problems with the presentation of the INTERACTIVE DVD game. For starters, you never get to see all the cases at one time. Instead when picking case numbers, you have to scroll through all the cases left using a remote control. Also, you always start at the case number that you chose at the beginning as your case. It takes time to scroll through all the numbers and it can be tediously getting to the number of the next case you wish to select. The other problem this presents is that until you scroll through the cases, unless you're keeping tabs yourself, you're not for sure which cases you've already opened. This problem could have been easily fixed by showing all of the cases left at one time, as is the case with the online version of the game. The only other complaints I can find with the game are that Howie Mandel repeats himself a lot (especially if you play the game more than once) and the only time you get to see the Deal girls are at the very beginning of the game.
The presentation of this version of the game isn't the best, but it could have been a lot worse. It might not be as exciting as the actual game show itself, but the basic format of the game show doesn't change and the game can be a lot of fun to play as teams with family or a group of friends.
Customer Review: Very buggy and slow
Summary: 3 Stars
My wife picked this game up. This is my first interactive DVD game so I didn't expect much to begin with.
The game itself is almost like the show, except for the fact that you will notice that it's VERY slow. Another thing that I ran into was that after you pick the case to open, the CD locks up, and doe not allow you to select another case unless you press menu on your DVD remote and then resume game. This adds to the frustration. On top of that you have to cycle through all the cases as they do not all appear on the screen at one time. After you spend a good 15 minute or so picking all the cases for the round, you are given an offer and this part is almost exactly like the show. Howie even says the dollar amount of the offer.
AFter that you are back to selecting cases again, and again you have to go back to the menu and resume the game to pick the next case.
I played a 2 player game and wasn't able to finish the game after my wife took the offer because right after I picked my next case, the DVD froze again and I pressed "Menu" to go back to the Menu screen as I have been doing for all this time. However this time when I pressed Menu, the game just quit and said "Thanks for playing" All that time and I didn't even get to finish the game. My wife asked if I wasnted to play again, and I reluctantly agreed. This game could be more fun if it wasn't so slow and forces you to work around the bugs due to poor design. Maybe 1 player mode is not as buggy. Another bug was when we were finally able to finish the second game, I took a deal at $145,000 (my case had $25,000). My wife got it down to her final two cases ($200,000 and $500,000). The banker offered her $350,000 and she took the deal and it turned out her case had $200,000, so that was a good deal. However, Howie said she should have stayed in the game. Huh?? Make no sense at all. Obvious this game was rushed.
This game is maybe fun for once or twice, then it becomes boring. For $20, I guess its an OK deal.
Customer Review: DEAL OR NO DEAL THAT IS THE QUESTION
Summary: 5 Stars
It's America's worldwide sensation that's taking the world by storm that has everyone on the edge of their seats and dubbed the biggest game show since Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and already has gone on to be a success in 16 countries. And now you can share the excitement of Deal Or No Deal in your own home. The fun begins when Howie Mandel introduces you to the game and the the models make their entrance however Howie does NOT say Ladies Please when the models appear then Howie will ask you to pick your lucky suitcase that maybe holds a cool million bucks. I must say I haven't had a million bucks in my case yet but I'm working on it. As you progress on your journey to win a million bucks The Banker will call you to offer you a deal that will hopefully make your day and that is good enough to take and Howie's phrases to The Banker are sometimes very funny. My favorite Howie phrase was this one,
Howie: Hello Sweaty {Pause} Okay,
One thing that I noticed that Howie never says Open The Case but each time I play I say Open The Case and also it seems to me that model Tameka Jacobs is the star model of Deal Or No Deal because she opens every single case you pick and only her hands chest and green dress are shown. Wonder why the other models didn't have the chance to be in the game is a mystery to me. Unlike other reviews I didn't have many troubleshooting problems with Deal Or No Deal and the only problems i've had was when the board would pop up it would sometimes freeze. Still a fun game to play with your family although parents may object to letting younger kids see Tameka's chest while she opens a case. My second favorite part of Deal Or No Deal is when you pick Case 11 Howie says Case 11 For You My Dear and my heart just melted with love. Howie just loves you does he?. So why wait for Monday nights when you can play Deal Or No Deal anytime on your DVD player,
Enjoy
Customer Review: Bad programming, lack of content, poorly designed
Summary: 2 Stars
Those of you who know the TV show know that "Deal Or No Deal" does not require a lot of thought to play. What the TV show offers is basically quick game play, and eye candy in the form of an amusing host (Howie Mandel) and guests, female models holding the cases, music and lights, etc.
This game has managed to remove all the interesting parts of "Deal Or No Deal."
1) There is only a small amount of video content; mostly very short clips of Howie Mandel telling you how many cases you have to open, etc.
2) The game is dragged down by a very strange, very poorly-thought out system for picking the cases you want to open. Each time you need to pick a case, one numbered case is displayed on the screen at a time, and you press the up and down arrows to move to the next case, and so on until you eventually get to the case you want to open. It takes a second or two to get from one case to the next ... very slow. Why not display all the cases on the screen? Why not have a video of the models holding those cases? Heck, why not just play some music during the process?
3) The game is poorly programmed. In particular, the "banker's" offers and Howie's comments aren't consistent with the way the game is usually played. For example, I revealed the $1 million dollar case, and Howie's response was "now you're making the banker nervous." At another point, the banker's offer went up when I revealed one of the highest valued cases.
All in all, just a weak effort. The sad thing is that a DVD version of this game could've been nearly as amusing as the TV show (unlike a board game version, for example). Very disappointing.
Customer Review: This Is NOT What I'm thankful for !!! NO DEAL !!!
Summary: 1 Stars
When the Deal Or No Deal DVD Game came out I was so excited with joy and even saved up my allowance to buy it however I wasn't prepared for the pitfalls ahead that would keep me from playing Deal Or No Deal. The trouble began the day after I bought it when it started freezing whenever I would get an offer from The Banker and I could never find out how much The Banker offered me because it would freeze at the same spot and cleaning the DVD did not solve the problem and it made me restart the game over again. I also noticed another problem with the Deal Or No Deal DVD Game and it occurs when The Banker calls Howie's voice gets choppy and sounds like he has a lisp and Howie gets silent but his mouth moves and no voice comes out when Howie moves and this causes the board to freeze. Another problem I had was whenever I played Deal Or No Deal all the way to the final round it never let me switch cases or keep my case and it froze again and it really DISGUSTED me. NBC and Howie Mandel should really be ashamed at what Imagination Games has done to the DVD game of their hit show and really should write fans of DOND like myself an apology letter for not fixing the glitches of this game. I think Imagination Games rushed the Deal Or No Deal game out for Christmas and they should make a Deal Or No Deal 2nd edition DVD game that's better than this. For a better version of Deal Or No Deal I advise you to check out the just released PC version of Deal Or No Deal by Global Star. Now that version rocks and is more enjoyable. so my final advice to you this holiday season is STAY AWAY FROM THIS GAME