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Casual games have found a market on the Wii and alot of people love playing them.  My sister is one of them.

I have to start off this review by saying that I love my sister.  Anytime I can get her interested in playing a video game, I love it.  She said that she wanted to try the new Family Feud 2010 Edition for the Wii when we passed by a Gamestop. I thought what could be the harm in picking it up.  Was I expecting alot from this game? No.  My expectations were kind of low.  I was expecting to be able to at least use my Miis in game.  I was expecting a lot of different answer combinations and questions that made sense.  What I didn’t expect was both of our responses from playing this horrific game.

As expected, the graphics are nothing great.  It looks like it could be done on a Nintendo 64.   The classic Family Feud theme songs and sounds were present, but none of the actual host were present.  It was just a voiceover guy who recorded 5 lines of dialogue besides the specific questions.  And it was buggy as hell.  I had picked the number 1 question and the host asked me, “Survey says would you like to play or pass.”  What does the survey have to do with me deciding whether to play or pass?  The only use of the Wii Remote was buzzing in for the Face Off and that was just for moving the Wii Remote down.  But all of these crappy features were almost expected.  However, it is completely unacceptable  to not be able to use Mii’s as contestants in this game.    It is the Wii.  Have they forgotten that?  Obviously they did because the very first thing you do in the game is create an avatar.

As bad as everything up to this point was, I was kind of expecting that.  However, what was absolutely horrific that had both me and my sister, who doesn’t even review games, screaming and cursing at the screen was the idiotic questions.  Almost all of the questions were insane and stupid.  And the answers were even worse.   For example, one of the questions was, “What is the least private room in your house?”  with the top 4 answers on the board.  Now of course the first two were easy, which were living room and kitchen.  But for the last two to be bathroom and bedroom.  Really.  Who in the world did they interview that said the bathroom was one of their least private places?  Another was what do you view through a telescope.  Again, some common answers were on there like stars and planets, but your neighbors.  Who did they interview, convicted rapist and murderers?  They also put in a very short time for responses and make you type out your answers.  And while the in game dictionary is pretty good at looking at the question and determining what you are spelling, there are times where it is just terrible.  For example with the telescope question, I tried typing in constellation, which was not even in there.  The only thing dumber than the questions is the computer competition in the single player.  They even answered one of the responses I gave earlier when they were trying to steal the points for the question.

The most telling thing about this game is my sister thought it was terrible and she is a casual video game player.  And I’m a hardcore gamer who was not satisfied with the game either.  So since it has no viable audience, I can only determine that this game is an utter failure with somebody trying to make money off of a classic game show.  The only way they could have saved this game was to include a Richard Dawson kissing and groping mini-game, but we know they couldn’t include that in this terrible game.