“1 VS 100″ Returns to XBox Live For a Second Season on November 19th
I’m guessing many of you XBox owners who had the option to got the 1 VS 100 game for XBox Live. It seems to have been wildly successful and popular. Good news for you all. The game will be returning for a second season on November 19th at 8:00PM ET/5:00PM PT. They’ll have differently themed “Extended Play” games each night so look out for those. You can win some nice prizes, too. Actual prizes; not those fake virtual ones. No reason not to play. Click here for all the details.
The game plays pretty much like the show. The “One” has to answer multiple choice questions correctly to stay in the game, and each of the 100 people in the mob that gets it wrong is out. The contestant earns Microsoft points the more he or she eliminates, and getting rid of all 100 members earns the grand prize. The audience also gets to play along with the chance of making it into the Mob or becoming the One.
It looks like they did some pretty nice upgrades to make the game show experience even greater for you. Like the show contestants will start at the top of the staircase and make their way down into the arena, giving them more time to enjoy their moment in the spotlight. They redid the three Helps you get a tiny bit. You still get “Trust the Mob” where you go with the Mob’s majority and “Trust the Crowd” where you go with the audience’s majority. The new help is “Trust the Top 10″, where you you go with the majority answer of the top ten scoring contestants. They’ve also updated the studio to look more like a stadium. Looks incredibly nice.
Have an XBox and want to play against other readers here? Be sure to leave a comment with your information and start a BuzzerBlog competition. Maybe we’ll see what we can do with it. I’m not a video game player and I don’t own an XBox, but 1 VS 100 has me really jealous and wanting one. Definitely play if you get a chance.
The live games are much better than the extended play games. The extended play games got old pretty fast but the live games were always pretty fun.
Oh and my xbox gamertag is Bgamer90.
This almost makes me want to get an XBox 360. Almost.
To be honest the game got pretty boring fast because the questions seemed skewed at an audience I'm not a part of. Knocking out questions on the actual TV show wasn't all that difficult—I can't claim to have aced them all but I could have performed reasonably well if I'd been a contestant. But when it came to the online game, well, who cares who was on the June cover of Vogue magazine or whatever? The whole thing seems to have been designed as a vehicle to advertise various forms of media through a series of crappy trivia questions, and after the first few play sessions I started to skip out on them in favor of other things, before stopping completely and quietly allowing my Gold membership to expire.
I still have a Gold membership card or two and nothing better to use them on, so I might give this a go a second time, but to be honest I'm no longer expecting it to be good.
I heard that Microsoft had kicked users of its XBox Live service for "chearing the system". Be careful if you have a used XBox console.
Cheating, I meant
NBC should get 1 vs. 100 for their lineup by 2010. Maybe place it in the summer for a few episodes or place it in a few episodes in the fall/spring season
hooray for the system! oh crap!
Well said Andrew Jordan. As I have said before, NBC seriously needs to get themselves back on the map. The upcoming Olympics simpl,y won't cut it for them. I could suggest they pick up the Money List, but after the bad ratings it got on GSN, NBC will not doubt say no. I wish there could be a way to write to Jeff Zucker.
Well said Andrew Jordan. As I have said before, NBC seriously needs to get themselves back on the map. The upcoming Olympics simpl,y won't cut it for them. I could suggest they pick up the Money List, but after the bad ratings it got on GSN, NBC will not doubt say no. I wish there could be a way to write to Jeff Zucker.