#27 – 1 vs. 100 (X360)
Now that I’ve gotten all the achievements in this and sunk enough time to get up to level 20+, this totally counts.
This is almost two games; the live game and the kind of live extended play. In the live game, one player is chosen as the one and a hundred are chosen as the mob, everyone else still plays along but they are in the crowd. The one and the mob are the only players who have a chance to win prizes. A round is finished when either the one gets a question wrong, the one eliminates all of the mob, or the one chooses to take however many points he’s earned and quit. Then a new group is chosen and it starts all over. Live play is kind of exciting because you never know if you’re going to be chosen for one of the special positions. Unlike last season, where Katie and I played a whole lot of 1 vs 100 and never got to be in the mob or the one, Katie has been in the mob once already and our friend Jake has also been in the mob, so it does actually happen to real human beings.
Extended play is a faster paced version of being in the crowd. No prizes are awarded but there’s a leaderboard and what the game tells us is that extended play comes into account when the mob and the one are chosen. The questions in extended play sometimes have themes like cooking or commercials and are generally a lot more difficult than the live game’s questions.
This is the second season of 1 vs 100 and the game has had a lot of its old quirks worked out. There’s a level system where your score accumulates and unlocks different emotes, which have no practical value besides bragging rights. The achievements are new and another good way to encourage people to play longer. The themed question sets are more varied than last season’s also.
The best part about the game, though, is playing with friends. It’s not exciting at all to play alone unless you’re really into pointless trivia but when you can get a couple friends together, either through Live or just in the same room, it becomes a lot more fun.
Categories: Entertainment
Tags: finished, games, xbox 360
Comments: 4 Comments.
I do enjoy 1 vs. 100. We were playing that tonight as well during the live game. I saw you were waiting to join cause I was looking to invite a forth but I figured you had your own group going. I think my favorites thus far are the movies, lyrics & tv related segments in extended play.
That reminds me of another weird quirk about 1 vs 100. Katie and I were on our xbox, and we had two friends in a party, and we all wanted to play 1 vs 100. When we got into the game, it didn’t automatically put us all in the same group. Then some random dude ended up in our game, and then one of our friends. We couldn’t get our fourth player in because there’s no way to kick random people from your group! About halfway through the guy just left and we invited our friend back into the group and he popped right in. It seems like an annoying oversight.
I haven’t play any yet but I loved season 1′s video game themed segment. Monday sounds like a good night to play because it’s tech & gadgets, video games, and fantasy!
Yeah, the grouping up can be a little hinky. I know we’ve managed it a time or two… but I can recall for the life of me how we did it. More often it’s just the two of us (recently three) and we’re just stuck with whoever joins. I think they could improve this by having the option to play privately or create your own group so you won’t have to worry about it.
Yeah, I spent an unreasonable amount of time looking for a way to kick the random person from our group. There’s an option to make your group private but that apparently excludes you from being selected as the one or in the mob, which almost defeats the purpose of the game entirely!