QI - A Quite Interesting Game [Interactive DVD] [2005]

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Primary Contributor : Stephen Fry

Product Details

Director : Ian Lorimer
Actor : Stephen Fry
Format : PAL
Binding : DVD
EAN : 7321900910859
Product Group : DVD
Region Code : 2
Release Date : 2005-11-14
Running Time : 277minutes
Studio : Warner Home Video

ASIN : B000BHZ1FG

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Editorial Reviews

Synopsis

Based on the BBC 2 game hosted by Stephen Fry, this interactive game generates lively discussions on a variety of weird and wonderful topics.

From the Studio

This fully interactive game is based on the BBC2 panel show hosted by Stephen Fry. With team or one player options, the object of the game is to progress without falling into the trap of selecting the obvious, yet wrong answer. At the end of the game there is even the chance to win a real prize by logging online. QI Interactive includes many clips and stills on which the questions are based with Stephen Fry delivering the questions, rewards and penalties in his own inimitable style.

The QI DVD is quite simply the most quite interesting quiz you will ever play. In the large but velvety hands of your QI Minotaur, Stephen Fry, you enter a dark mental maze filled with mystical beasts: singing dogs & cat burglars; Lord Byron's rampant nanny & Adam's flannel. You will also meet Woonsocket. The objective is to complete seven linked strands of around fifty questions each. Hidden at the end of each thread is a reward in the form of a secret letter. You must collect all these letters, a full complement of which forms an anagram. This acts as a key, gaining you access to the inner sanctum of QI where you may befriend the QI elves and win a chance at the coveted title of QI Master itself. Questions are multiple choice and must be answered correctly in order to trigger the next question. If you answer wrongly you will get one last chance before being sent back in disgrace to the beginning of the thread.

Customer Reviews

An immensely enjoyable quiz marred by a fatal flaw. (2006-12-11)

This interactive quiz is seemingly a great conversion of the show to the DVD game format. The questions are all asked by Stephen Fry in full video, the answers explained in a similar fashion. The writing and performance for all the questions (and the wrong and right answers) are very amusing and interesting, which would make this interactive DVD completely recommendable and an essential purchase.BUT, the game itself has a fatal flaw built in. There are 7 categories with 50 questions to answer in each. When you get to the end of a category, if you've answered everything correctly, but on one or more questions you've not answered with the most interesting correct answer, you're sent back to do all 50 questions again! There's no indication as to which answers are teh most interesting as that's subjective and there's no audio or visual clue that you've done so, and answering the questions again is frustrating as this time around, the long, witty but unskippable speeches by Stephen Fry get in the way when you're trying to speed through the secion again.This knocks 2 stars off the review for me, because the game is essentially broken and frustrating despinte the fantastic content.

Quite Interesting and VERY addictive! (2006-11-02)

I got this for Christmas last year and once I started I felt it EXTREMELY hard to put the DVD remote down once I started playing! It was very satisfying reaching the end, solving the anagram and getting congratulations on the QI website when I typed the correct solution in.Did you know that there are 8 to 10 thousand known species of grass? That's just one of the many interesting (if not that useful) things you may well learn during your adventure through the 7 'threads' of the game.The game is both enjoyable to play on your own or with family/friends.A *must* buy for all QI fans!

Quite disappointing (2006-07-22)

Oh this could have been soooo good.The TV show is wonderful; this is only interesting for a very short while. Having impossible questions makes this interactive DVD into a random guessing game, complete with 'dead-ends' where a previous question has two correct answers, requiring you to start from the beginning again.It looks great for about 20 minutes, but then becomes very annoying.

Stick with the TV show... (2006-04-04)

Hmmmm. Well, I love QI, I really do. It's one of my favourite TV shows. However, I know I am not alone in thinking that DVDs containing QI episodes would be a much more worthwhile purchase. Unfortunately, for some bizarre reason, it looks like the series are not going to be released on DVD, so we have to make do with this.Initially I was amused by Stephen Fry's banter and the typically quirky questions. However, I got quickly bored with this game. The questions are so difficult that I found myself guessing randomly every single time. Stephen also has a limited number of responses to getting a question wrong, which quickly gets annoying when you've heard him say "oh no, that's quite wrong," about ten times.

The game might have been more enjoyable if you could compete in teams rather than on your own, if some of the questions were easier, and also if other QI regulars featured in the game. Only Stephen is used. The people who designed this game failed to recognise that the appeal of QI is not down to Stephen alone, as wonderful as he is. It is also due to the hilarious Alan Davies, as well as the numerous brilliant regulars such as Bill Bailey, Sean Locke and Rich Hall. It is a crime that none of these other great comedians got a look-in.

Great Fun! (2006-02-14)

This is a great game for all ages to enjoy since the questions are so impossible and strange.

Stephen Fry does a great job of connecting every question together and has some hilarious put downs should you get an answer incorrect.

One of the ingenious things about this game is that you do not lose from answering incorrectly, but rather for giving the least interesting answer when there is more than one correct answer to a question. One example could be this question: What can rubber bands be used for?

a. Powering Helicoptersb. Overpowering Crocodilesc. Emergency Food Rasionsd. Machine Gun Ammunition

More than one of these is correct, but should you choose what is considered the least interesting you end up at a dead end after one or two more questions and Stephen sends you back to the start of the thread.

There are seven threads in total, each one containing around 50 multiple choice questions. If you correctly and interestingly answer all 50 in one sitting, Stephen rewards you with a letter of the alphabet. One you know all seven letters and re-arranged them, you have the correct word to take to the QI website.

The best interactive DVD game I've played so far. Definately worth a buy.

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