The lack of speed gets to you eventually. Now, multiply this for four questions in a round, and up to eight rounds, and you have a plod. Then each question is voiced too, with a chunky gap between it being read and the answers becoming available. For each round, you start with a standings screen, then the camera swoops into a bland environment, then the round is announced – voiced, so you have to wait for the gent to finish – before the categories are picked. If Droid Trivia has a fault, it’s the speed of proceedings. Which might be your cup of tea: just don’t expect to be surprised by anything here. They’re just a little unimaginative, lacking in wit or intrigue, opting for general knowledge in the given subject, rather than anything creative like anagrams, riddles or the like. They’re pitched well for reasonably well educated adults to have a good time (we got roughly three-quarters right each round, which is a completely unhelpful metric). We never questioned the veracity of the answers we even learned a few things. The questions themselves are pretty good, if a shade boring. Curiously, the other categories and their questions don’t feel overly biased to the US of A – they are well edited and feel country-agnostic – but the fact that these two take up valuable category slots might limit you (unless you’re American, or fancy a pop at some of their questions). But Droid Trivia is clearly an American game, as American Geography and American History pop up frequently. These are sensible stuff like Music, Natural World, Food and Drink and others. Players get to vote on their choice of category for the round. Memorising phone numbers has never been fun, so a mode dedicated to something like it missed the mark. Sitting there, repeating phrases like “Elephant, Monkey, Ostrich, Rhino’, over and over, as we waited for the answers to disappear and the question to finally appear, wasn’t our brand of fun. The only caveat is Memory Game, which always puffed a little groan out of us when it came up. They are simple and timeless enough to work well. So, three multiple choice rounds, and one True or False. Picture Multiple Choice is the same, but with a picture to jazz up proceedings, and there’s Memory Game, which is a multiple choice but the answers are removed before the question appears, so you have to remember where the right answer was located.
There’s Multiple Choice, which, again, is a bit Ronseal: you have four options to choose from, each mapped to A, B, X or Y. There’s True or False?, which we won’t patronise you by explaining. There are four in Droid Trivia, but they’re so similar that you could argue that there are only two. The camera swoops into a generic industrial background, and the round’s game type is announced.
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