this appears very erratic. first time i played it, when it was new, it was very difficult (for me anyway). so i'd given it a wide berth until yesterday when i was having a sociable pint with an old friend who is into his footie. i know the machine is covered by a BMWC player so we didn't bother with that.
anyway FMQ was offering £1 at 3-0 (is this standard) and my team seemed to be playing long ball to the striker. i'm sure that before i had to dribble it upfield. we cocked up on a couple of the penalties but still managed to pay for the drinks.
was this a one-off or is this game worth looking at?
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nobody ever wins on those things.
I've hardly played it before but I'm not sure it's worth looking at at all. Interestingly it's based on the old computer game Championship Manager Quiz (now Football Manager Quiz), an offshoot of the football management brand released c. 2002 and which I had some small input in helping with questions on back in 2002. That said, the gameplay on the quizzie looks rank - very hard questions, often unrealistic score targets, and to boot what seems to be a completely random goal-scoring endgame which the computer can easily kipper you on by not allowing you to score. I wouldn't touch this one with a shítty stick to be brutally honest.
The first time I played this one it 'gave' me something like £6 or £7 which obviously aroused my interest but every time I've encountered it since then I've thought that it's right down there with the worst of them. As grecian points put, the penalty-taking element seems completely random and therefore you have no ability to improve your chances of winning. It even seems to be random in terms of deciding whether what seems to be a well-placed shot is in fact a save for the keeper.
The questions are also at least 50% spoilers ("What did player X do for East Stirling vs. Morton on 15th Dec 2001?" etc), and I would consider football to be one of my strong areas so God knows what someone who didn't know much about football would make of it.
The other, maybe more minor, irritation is that the game takes a fixed length of 3 minutes, so even if the scoring did have some skill element and you wanted to assess whether a game was worth playing, you are stuck with it if it's in non-pay mode whether you like it or not. I know some of you may never deliberately lose on a game but I certainly do on e.g. 3 lots of 25 points on Hangman, no guaranteed prize on Millionaire, rubbish points distribution on Ant and Dec and so on.
Overall I think when mentioning this one we should all do that old mime of holding our nose and pulling a lavatory chain. We could copyright that as the Fruitchat Seal of Disapproval...
The questions are also at least 50% spoilers ("What did player X do for East Stirling vs. Morton on 15th Dec 2001?" etc), and I would consider football to be one of my strong areas so God knows what someone who didn't know much about football would make of it.
The other, maybe more minor, irritation is that the game takes a fixed length of 3 minutes, so even if the scoring did have some skill element and you wanted to assess whether a game was worth playing, you are stuck with it if it's in non-pay mode whether you like it or not. I know some of you may never deliberately lose on a game but I certainly do on e.g. 3 lots of 25 points on Hangman, no guaranteed prize on Millionaire, rubbish points distribution on Ant and Dec and so on.
Overall I think when mentioning this one we should all do that old mime of holding our nose and pulling a lavatory chain. We could copyright that as the Fruitchat Seal of Disapproval...