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Also known as Girls Gone Wild: Trivia Edition. Top Heavy Studios’ debut game, The Guy Game is a racy, M-Rated trivia game that can be considered the offspring of a typical trivia game injected with “Girls Gone Wild” attitude.
The Guy Game is a collection of twenty episodes. Over these episodes, you’ll meet different girls and encounter over a thousand questions, many of which are asked to the girls on video.
Each of the twenty episodes features four segments. In the first segment, you’ll need to answer trivia questions. Then, you’ll watch the girls be asked the same questions and decide if they got the question right. In the second segment, you’ll play Ballz, a skeeball knockoff. In the third segment, you’ll be given more trivia questions to answer. It is similar to the first segment except here the girls will always answer incorrectly and you need to decide which response they actually gave.
You’ll have these three segments to answer questions correctly, which will give you points which in turn allow you to win the game. In addition, as you win more points you fill the game’s “Flash-O-Meter.” Initially, the topless girls will be covered by The Guy Game logo. As you fill the meter (and get about halfway), the logo disappears and the “stuff” is blurred. Eventually, the blur disappears and you get the full picture. As I mentioned above, if you don’t fill the meter by the end of the third segment you won’t go on to the final segment.
The final segment is a physical event (this can be a race, hula hoop competition or hack sack event) in which the girls compete with each other. You’ll need to decide which girl will win and wager your points to that girl. In this segment, many of the girls compete topless and since the meter has to be filled by the time you reach it, you’ll get the um… full experience.
The only problem with single-player is that although there are many, many questions for you to answer, only a few are asked to the girls. These questions remain the same for each episode so it is entirely possible to memorize the answers after a few runs.
At its best, The Guy Game is played with a couple of drinks and a few Heinekens. The game’s multiplayer-centric mode, called President, is a riot. You compete with up to three other players in games with very specific (and customizable) rules. The player with the most points sets the rule, and those who don’t follow the rules should take a drink.
In addition, the multiplayer mode allows you to play in three ball games. You’ll either be leveling a ball on a platform while trying to get your opponents’ balls to fall off, play a soccer knockoff or participate in the rowdy skee ball game from single-player.
Visually, as a general videogame, The Guy Game doesn’t have much going for it. As a trivia game, though, The Guy Game has a top-notch interface that keeps thing uncluttered. The much hyped girls strut their stuff in relatively good quality video using the spave-saving DivX codec.
Like the visuals, there is not much going on in the game sound-wise. The main questions are asked by comedian Matt Sadler to the girls. Other sound bytes include the non video-based questions asked to you by a woman and the comic commentators who occasionally chime in with genuinely funny jokes.
The Guy Game succeeds at pleasing its intended audience (the older teenage male, which I very happily fall in). As a trivia game, the questions are varied enough to keep things interesting and the breast parade never feels pushed or clearly added for marketing reasons. In fact, it seems that the guys over at Top Heavy Studios really enjoyed making the game as the whole atmosphere of The Guy Game is top-notch. Whether that is the appropriate atmosphere for you is something for you to decide. -- Adam Nunez, PGNx Media
---- Sep 2, 2004
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