IGN writes: "How many vowels are in the word "education?" Is the phrase "spilling the beans" an idiom, a simile or a metaphor? And 25 is a composite number -- true or false? These are just a few of the questions that should make you feel bad if you can't immediately give their answers, because, if you can't, you just might not be smarter than a 5th grader.
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? Make the Grade is the second video game adaptation of the popular primetime quiz show that's been making Americans feel intellectually inferior to their own grade-school children for over a year and a half now. It's a follow-up to last year's rush-it-out-to-market rendition, but while this new sequel has had a further 12 months to have its design refined and some extra polish added, it still just feels like more of the same."
In this series of OG Reviews of the Week, we will spend our time not complementing games, but roasting games that may do some things right, but inevitably wind up pissing you off. Today's game is "Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader" for the XBLA.
Xbox360Achievements.org has revealed the achievements for THQ's upcoming release, Are you Smarter 5th Grader:Game Time. There are 30 achievements for the usual 1000 points.
WorthPlaying writes: "We all have our guilty pleasures, and one of mine is the television show "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?," which tests contestants' knowledge of grade school test material. I love seeing how much the challengers (and by extension, myself) have forgotten since they were 10 years old, and the entire hour is usually a refresher course on things I once knew but have long since forgotten. Therefore, I was understandably excited to get my hands on the PC game based on the show, but it wasn't long before my dreams were crushed like that of most of the contestants. Not only is Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? Make the Grade boring and shallow, but its production values are so low that it's actually hard to look at after a while. This is one game that dropped out of school way too soon."