Scene It Box Office Smash!
GS Available: 1000 DLC: 250
Key information: Unlike the first Scene It game, you are unable to pause questions to look up the answers on IMDB.com. This makes some of the achievements a little more time consuming this time around, but still easily doable within 15 hours.
Improving on the original Scene It, BOS extends the number of question categories to 21:
Anagrams Challenging at first, this category has you unscrambling letters to reveal the name of an actor or film from 4 possible options.
Celebrity Ties
Questions about movie stars who are linked in some way.
Child's Play
One of my personal favourites. A sketch is revealed slowly and the first to buzz in with the correct answer gets the points.
Credit Roll
HARD. View the credits to a movie to guess guess the title. One catch though: you never get the well-known cast members first. My advice? Wait until near the end to answer.
Crosswords
Answer questions to find the missing words in the puzzle on by one. This obviously gets easier to answer the more words that you already have in the puzzle.
Distorted Reality
Pictures of movie stars are blurred or distorted in other ways: first to identify who is hidden gets the points.
Genre X
Five questions about a specific film genre. Just make sure you get the Westerns correct when you get that category!
Invisibles
Another of my favourites. You're given a still picture from a movie with a key part missing: like an easily identifiable landmark, or even the actors' heads!
Movie Clip
Watch movie clip; answer questions.
Now Playing
Movie posters are slowly revealed like a multi-layered image. Buzz in as soon as you can identify the film title.
Pictograms
Several pictures are displayed for you to figure out a film title of actor. For example: A cliff face + football + snake = Rocky Balboa.
Pixel Flix
These are great! You get a famous scene animated in retro video graphics. All you have to do is identify the film.
Props
An image from a film is displayed on screen. Identify the movie.
Quotables
Finish famous movie lines. eg: "I feel the need . . . (the need for speed)"
Sequentials
I hated these in the first game, but fortunately in Scene It BOS, you can guess away until you finally put the four movies given in chronological order.
Sketches
Similar to Child's Play, this time you have an invisible pencil drawing a sketch for you to figure out a movie title from.
Songs & Slogans
All questions relating to film soundtracks or slogans.
Soundclips
You're given an audio clip of around thirty seconds to identify the film title from a choice of four.
Visual Puzzlers
You're given four stills from a film, one by one as the time runs down - just correctly identify the movie.
Which Is Which?
You're given a choice of two pictures from movies and a title - just match the title to the right picture.
Who Am I?
Identify the name of an actor from 4 clues. The clues are staggered in difficulty, which more points awarded to those who take the risk of answering after clue number one.
NEW QUESTION CATEGORY: POP QUIZ (DLC ONLY)
Only available on downloading the DLC, Pop Quiz gives you 10 quickfire Yes/No questions worth 2000 points each.
The loading times are generally much faster and the overall presentation has improved. The problem which effected the longevity of Lights, Camera, Action remain: mainly that questions come around gain too soon with repeated play. Whilst useful for the gamerscore addict, the game does become repetitive quite quickly.
If you can find a game online, the experience is pretty solid and I experienced no problems. Fortunately, if you're kickin' ass and your opponent quits, you still get credit for a win as long as you finish the game.
Achievements unlock very quickly, although repeated play is required for a couple of category achievements, such as answering 15 Western questions correctly.
Basically, if you enjoy movie trivia, it's safe to say you'll get a lot from this game. There are a greater variety of questions and it is good fun to play with friends. The inclusion of Avatar support is also a nice touch.
7/10
elSmitmyster
(edited and improved May 11th 2009)
3.0