Jolt reports:
''Sony is hoping to use one of its one key franchises to muscle into the territory of another – specifically, it is developing a Buzz! game to compete with Brain Training in the handheld market. There have been approximately twelve times fifteen divided by three Brain Training imitators since it first became obvious that Nintendo's 'gimmicky' piece of software was actually causing DS shortages in some retailers, so what will make Buzz! Brain Bender so different – and competitive – when it's released around Christmas time?
To be fair, Brain Bender promises more of a visually impressive and entertaining mental workout, probably more targeted towards kids and 'cool' people judging by Sony's quip of those 'other games' being dry. Rather than trying to overcome some obvious weaknesses (i.e. lack of touch-screen), the game is using Buzz!'s intuitive quick-fire multiple choice system. The sixteen mini-games, divided into four categories, are displayed in a split-screen format, with the right hand portion dedicated to possible answers, each corresponding to a face button.''
WorthPlaying contacted SCEA to find out if it planned to match the PSPgo Rewards program announced by SCEE this morning and was told that Sony had no plans at this time to match the European offer.
"There hasn't been any announcement yet that there will be an equivalent rewards program for North America..."
"There hasn't been any announcement yet that there will be an equivalent rewards program for North America..."
This is sad .. the Euros are getting stuff, and here in the US they havent even figured out the UMD issue yet either.
Don't they realize this thing is coming out like SOON
There are over 1.7 million user generated questions in the game Buzz.
I made 200 useless questions, myself. Just 25 sets of 8 questions (junk) for the silver trophy (and it was my final needed to platinum Buzzz). I imagine a HUGE number of the questions are similarly worthless.
AATG writes: "There is something terribly bare-bones about this release. For a start, the presentation. The sight of Mr Buzz, preening and pirouetting before a static laboratory background barely engages you, and the figurehead is almost completely irrelevant to the proceedings. There is something saddening seeing the once gregarious showman turn up in such a flimsy product - as if we are witnessing the fall from grace and subsequent dismal resurrection of a one-loved entertainer fallen out of favour. If Mr Buzz's career survives this excursion, surely his next port of call is whoring fake Rolexes on a daytime shopping channel. He is irksome, and unnecessary. Compare that with the miniature charm of Dr Kawashima in the Brain Training game that so blatantly "inspired" this waste of a UMD."
