Deal Or No Deal Review

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mrbud's Review of Deal Or No Deal

9th Jan 2007

Overall Rating

1 stars
  • Value for money
    3 stars
Good Points

Graphics
Authenticity


Bad Points

DVD Player : Slow, oh so very very slow.
PC: It's still a cumbersome way to select the box, but it is playable (just).


General Comments

(Review of the DVD version of Deal or No Deal)
As somewhat of a Deal or No Deal addict, I shamefully admit that I was thrilled to receive this for Christmas!
It's a shame, because it could really be a fantastic reproduction of the TV show.

The main pointers regarding the game are fine. OK, you select box 5 every time, but it does feel quite random in what is in the box and every other one. Noel speaks to you quite enthusiastically, just like in the show, and you even get a realistic offer from the banker.
You also get three different modes of game play.

So, what's the problem?
The problem is the way you get to select the next box.
A box appears in the middle of the screen with left and right arrows under it. It starts of at 1, and by the press of the right arrow, it moves across the screen after a couple of seconds, then pauses again for 5, 10 an eternity! Then brings the next box trundling across the screen. Number 2 appears!.
BY the time you get to the last box, boredom has truly set in. To be fair, you can go backwards, but it takes what feels like forever.

Surely a much better approach would be to have shown a grid of boxes left.
If you try this on a PC, which I never thought of until we had a reply from customer services, it is much quicker, and it is playable, but it does take longer than it should.

Customer services were not the best. We got a quick reply, but basically it said, "it's been tested on a number of DVD players with no problems, and therefore you won't be getting your money back"!
Not that we asked for our money back in the first place, but it did sound quite dismissive.

Is it really our DVD player?

I for one won't be getting it out of the box again in a hurry.

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