Buzz! The Entertainment Quiz

The best method to create a successful quiz and game show on telly is to keep it simple and keep it focused.

Sure, there may be a ‘bonus round’ or two thrown in where the formula varies ever-so-slightly from the norm, but in general the best quiz shows remain fairly stationary throughout to both keep audiences on board and the costs down.

A lot of mobile quiz games copy their TV counterparts. Not so with Buzz! – it copies itself.

As the title suggests, Buzz! The Entertainment Quiz is an entertainment-focused version of the popular PlayStation franchise that’s already seen two previous iterations arrive on the mobile.

Played either on your own or with up to three friends via pass-the-handset multiplayer, the title is split into nine different quiz show-like games.

The games are all question-based (as you’d expect, given it’s a quiz game), but vary nicely between traditional favourites like Time Attack and more contemporary structures such as the Weakest Link-like Point Risker.

There’s even a nod to Deal or No Deal lurking in The Box Game, which can penalise correct answers more harshly than wrong ones on the whim of Lady Luck.

Most of the time, though, it’s all about trivia, and in this regard that Buzz! really shines.

It may be limited to just the ‘Entertainment’ genres, but the variety of questions vary wildly between guessing at lyrics in music to filling in quotes and working out family relations of film stars.

If there was any real weakness with Buzz! it’s that, other than the questions themselves, there really isn’t anything different from last year’s edition of the game.

That’s not to say it isn’t still a well-polished and executed single or multiplayer quiz title, with a great range of questions and a good selection of game types - it just doesn’t quite feel as fresh any more.