As indicated by the title, The Pop Quiz focuses on pop music exclusively, rather than other genres of music. The game contains over 5000 new questions on hundreds of different artists from Black Eyed Peas to Nelly Furtado. There is a larger focus on music videos this time as well, with several music videos featuring in the game in a music video specific round. Someone must have been listening to us as well, as the game is localised for Australia, with Australian artists such as Crowded House and Young Divas appearing in the game.
Familiar setting, familiar questions and familiar theme..
Anyone who has played a Buzz! game in the past knows what to expect from The Pop Quiz. There is the main Buzz! mode, which plays out like a game show and has support for up to eight players. The main gameplay mode plays out with several different gameshow rounds and an overall winner declared at the end of the game. The game plays out a little differently to your typical party game, as the game is played entirely with the USB buzzers which come bundled with the game. These buzzers are great quality and while they aren't wireless, they can be used on any Buzz! game, so if you've picked up a Buzz! title in the past you can pick this game up for half the price. Rounding out the gameplay options is the custom game option, team play and quickfire quiz modes that have been in previous Buzz! games as well.
There are a few minor differences between The Pop Quiz and other Buzz games. For starters, the rounds are a little bit different. The rounds include name that band, musical squares, pass the bomb, video stars, pie fight!, pop picker, point stealer and what's that song? Several of these rounds do return from previous games, but the new rounds are pretty decent. We can only imagine it's becoming rather difficult to think of new rounds by now, but we'd like to see a "best of" compilation of some kind, which included every round to ever feature in a Buzz! game. The sets have also been changed and the characters look a little different this time around, but this is likely to be unnoticed by anyone but the most diehard Buzz! fan.
The cowboy is back, of course.
Buzz! is a game that has stayed the same ever since its debut. Sure, we've gotten some new rounds, some new questions and Buzz! himself keeps changing his suit, but there is very little difference between this game and the very first title, especially considering the subject matter is near identical. Much like Buzz! The Mega Quiz and Buzz! The Big Quiz, there is no real point in owning both Buzz! The Music Quiz and Buzz! The Pop Quiz, unless you're a huge fan of the series. Buzz! is still a fantastic game, it's brilliant value and incredibly enjoyable, it's just difficult to justify this as a purchase to anyone but the most obsessive Buzz! collector. If you're new to the series, Pop Quiz is a better game than Music Quiz, but only just.
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