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Bullseye DVD Game
"You can't beat a bit of 'Bully'. Step up to the oche... Will you be the dart player using your remote control, or will you be answering questions in this DVD game based on television's classic darts quiz? Play through the rounds, get to the final and try to win Bully's Star Prize. With this DVD you can even play a traditional game of 301 on your TV! Have a Super, Smashing, Great time!" Hang on! I think you'll find it's a DVD game based on the boardgame based on television's classic darts quiz, actually. How does it work? Pick teams and begin on the category board. Select a category then dart player aims for it on the board - first a moving wedge scans the board and you press a button to stop it, then a ring moves up and down the board and you press your button to stop it. Where these two meet is where your dart is thrown, apparently. If it lands in the correct category you win a bonus. Three rounds of multiple choice questions worth £30, £50 and £100 each. Wrong answers are thrown down the line for bonuses. Round two and it's Pounds for Points - chuck three darts, highest scorer gets to answer a multiple choice question for what their teammate earned. Round three is, of course, Bully's Prize Board. Only six prizes on offer and each team gets six darts. The leading team goes first and the value of prizes added to their total. The next teams can then mop up any of the prizes left unclaimed. Finally it's Bully's Big Prize Gamble - do you want to risk all your cash and prizes for what's hiding behind Bully? If you decline, the ofer passes down the line to the next highest team. Continue until a) everyone has passed it up (so the team with the most money wins), b) everyone's tried it and lost (so the the team with the most money wins) or c) someone goes for it and wins (in which case they've probably won the game). Is it "good"? Frankly it's rubbish. Throwing the darts on our DVD player was a triumph of hope over skill as there appeared to be no connection to where I thought I threw the dart and where it actually ended up. Seeing as you can play a normal game of 301, I could suggest that actually this is really cunning because it accurately emulates what I'm like at darts in real life, however what it actually is is unintuitive and massively annoying. There is something on the DVD called dart tuning, which tests your DVD player and aligns things so that your darts are thrown more accurately. It doesn't seem to work very well. But let's just assume for a second that perhaps you're managing to throw darts to a skill level equivilent of The Crafty Cockney Eric Bristow or something and that perhaps it's just us. Is it then the perfect DVD based darts and quiz combination? Absolutely not. What it actually is is massively slow and plodding - you will fall asleep playing this game. You don't get Jim Bowen or Tony Green (two people symbiotic with the nature of the success of the show, let us not forget) but some random Yorkshireman, presumably hoping that the public wouldn't try and tell the difference. The spelling question we got, and this is absolutely true, asked you to determine which of the four variations of "Tu-whit-tu-whoo" is the actual correct spelling of the noise an owl makes. We suggest buying the board game instead which is a hundred times more fun and comes with an actual real magnetic dartboard. Buy this from Amazon for someone you don't like. If you're willing to spend the extra £1.75, you can have a copy with a Bendy Bully as well. |
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