1 vs 100 Starting Second Season Next Week, Featuring New Categories
Despite still wearing a 'beta' tag, the XBox Live prize show 1 vs 100 is gearing up for its second season, to start next Thursday. Along with a whole host of new trivia questions, the updated game-show experience is going to feature new Mob- and One-choosing algorithms, an introductory runway walk for the avatars chosen as The One, and new theme categories, including "Finish the Lyrics," "80s," and "Vampires"--which does make one wonder which generation of vampire lore is going to be considered for the question base.
We've voiced our excitement about 1 vs 100 before, but for those who haven't yet added their virtual faces to the sea of contestants, here's the concept: players who are in the 'Crowd' by joining a live game get to watch the show taking place and answer the game's trivia questions alongside both the 1 and the 100, all the while improving their own chances of being chosen for one of those positions in the next game. Those lucky 101 who are chosen are then competing for prizes meted out in Microsoft's popular space currency. Mob members who hold on and outsmart the One usually only get a few hundred points, while a One who scores every question spot-on long enough for all 100 of the Mob to fail can walk away with 10,000 points (or $125 of your Earth dollars).
It's a neat concept just for the novelty of being part of a live game show, complete with chatty host, while actually earning the chance to win prizes - even if the contestants, host, and most of the prizes are all digital. It's also a great experience with a partner, testing each other's knowledge and scoffing at the dozens of people in the Mob who somehow don't know which album that one Beatles song is on.
The next fourteen-week season of 1 vs 100 will start on November 19 and is free to play for XBox Live Gold members.
1 vs 100 season 2 details [Official XBox Magazine UK]
[via: Kotaku]
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Posted to Video Games on 9 November 2009
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