This "Spring" XBLA 1 vs 100


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Microsoft has said that Xbox Live Primetime quiz game 1 vs. 100 will be free to everyone with an Xbox Live Gold subscription.

Based on the TV show of the same name, 1 vs. 100 pits a single player against a mob of opponents, and the object is for "the one" to get enough answers correct to outlast the others, who are eliminated and therefore thinned out somewhat if they get their answers wrong.

Players will be represented by Avatars, and according to IGN there are real prizes to be won, including Xbox Live Arcade games and Microsoft Points.

1 vs. 100 is due out this spring for Xbox 360.

Source Eurogamer

Hopefully this is not a duplicate post...

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Can't wait for this but define "everyone" because I have the feeling this will be US only.

it certainly was the case when it was originally announced with the NXE.

Well at least only the US version would have the prices and stuff.

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Well in a recent SentU a question or whatever they call it on the inside xbox thing over here, the question was asked and the guys said it was "coming" as far as im aware thats a european thing for inside xbox. (I could be wrong)

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noticed it's gonna be free and then it became a game i want...when is this coming out? i'm actually quite fond of trivia games.

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I wonder how many concurrent games they will have going.

I wonder how many questions there are gonna be... if we see regular duplicates it'll ruin the fun.

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Looking forward to seeing how this turns out, although I don't think it'll be my cup of tea.

Can't hurt that it's free too so (Y)

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i checked out the interview with the host on xbl and its seems like its only going to be one game at a time. the canadian beta starts at 8pm mst on friday. they said that you will either be part of the mob... a member of the audience.. or the one.. and you get to talk live thru the xbox with the host.. and the rest of the players all hear you. so just like the game on tv...

this sounds awesome

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i checked out the interview with the host on xbl and its seems like its only going to be one game at a time. the canadian beta starts at 8pm mst on friday. they said that you will either be part of the mob... a member of the audience.. or the one.. and you get to talk live thru the xbox with the host.. and the rest of the players all hear you. so just like the game on tv...

this sounds awesome

So basically everybody is part of the mob then and in no way a part of the game?

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So basically everybody is part of the mob then and in no way a part of the game?

have you ever seen the show? basically the fist 101 people who join the game are part of it. 100 will be the mob and 1 will be the "one"... as the game progresses mob members who get the question wrong will be eliminated... if the "one" loses the prize $ gets split between however many people are left in the mob... I dont think they can limit the # of concurrent games to only 1 at a time though.. that would be just nuts trying to join a game...

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have you ever seen the show? basically the fist 101 people who join the game are part of it. 100 will be the mob and 1 will be the "one"... as the game progresses mob members who get the question wrong will be eliminated... if the "one" loses the prize $ gets split between however many people are left in the mob... I dont think they can limit the # of concurrent games to only 1 at a time though.. that would be just nuts trying to join a game...

No I haven't seen it but I get the idea, I'm glad you agree with me though.

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Microsoft wants to making gaming a prize-winning endeavor with a console-first massively-multiplayer trivia game for Xbox 360. Is a giant game show just what Xbox Live needed?

What Is It?

1 Vs 100 is the sometimes-live 13-week game show being released for free to all Xbox Live Gold members later this year. Prizes are awarded for answering multiple-choice trivia questions, with the best wins ? depending on which of three roles you play in the game ? netting players 10,000 Microsoft points, a free Xbox Live Arcade game, or an entry into a season-wide prize sweepstakes for stuff like Zunes. Prizes are offered only for contestants aged 18 and up. At last, a game for adults!What We Saw

Posing as a guy from MTV a couple of weeks ago, your Deputy Managing Editor told the Microsoft people he was switching jobs and still allowed to share a couch with three other games reporters in New York City for a live run through a 1v100 session. The session was emceed by the show's host Chris Cashman, back in a sound booth in Seattle. At least a dozen other real people were playing from other 360sHow Far Along Is It?

The game ran smoothly from beginning to end. It didn't just have its gameplay features working but even a lot of its in-game advertising in place. It goes into Canadian beta later this weekWhat Needs Improvement?

Easy Questions: Let us hope that we were told a fact when a Microsoft rep assured us that questions for 1v100 would never be repeated. This must be so, because who wants to play a game show that includes the following question (which your DME got right!): "What country is the 2008 movie Australia set in? 1) New Zealand, 2) Australia, 3) Papua New Guinea"

More Complex Than Wheel of Fortune: Maybe Microsoft will mail people an instruction manual, and maybe it was just too early in the morning when Microsoft was showing the game, but there's a chance that first-time players will find the rules 1 vs 100 baffling. Let's break this down: 1v100 will be run live on Fridays and Saturdays at scheduled sessions that last a couple of hours. You play as your Xbox avatar. Any Xbox Live Gold member can be a member of the audience, aka the Crowd. This lets them answer questions and be linked to three local players or friends in an Xbox Live party. Crowd players earn chances to win sweepstakes prizes. Playing in the Crowd also increases the likelihood that the player will be chosen to join? the Mob. That Mob is the "100" part of 1 vs 100. Members of the Mob see their avatar seated against a big wall a la the Brady Bunch show opening, if the Brady Bunch got randy and had 100 members in the family. Every round of the game sees a new "1" selected from the Mob. The core of the game involves the 1 and the 100 answering the same trivia questions. If the 1 gets it wrong, he or she is knocked out of competition. If a member of the 100 gets it wrong they're dropped from the 100. For every question the 1 gets right, he or she amasses potential Microsoft Points winnings and has the option to cash out. But he or she needs to outlast everyone in the 100. The 100 can win prizes as wellonlyly once 40 players have been eliminated. The Mob's prize can be a free Xbox Live Arcade game, pre-determined by the show's organizers (which you may already own). Got all that?

And There Are More Rules: I haven't even explained the non-live, every-weekday mode called Extended Play in which everyone is in the Mob and winnings count toward chances to be picked to be in the Mob for the live games. Complex as this all sounds, we were having fun.

Local Scores Unimportant: Plenty of games are fun. But "fun" is so old-fashioned compared to the chance to win fabulous prizes. Microsoft's trailer for 1 vs 100 promises that beyond high scores is winning real prizes and that "beyond gaming is 1 vs 100." OK. Then, how come when me and three other people are playing on a couch ? each of us also in the Mob ? but winning nothing for beating each other?

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2009/05/custom_1241614229574_1v1002.jWhat Should Stay The Same? Same?

Non-Invasive Advertising: All the Microsoft reps' discussion of Sprint sponsorship and Honda ads seemed ripe for disaster. But the ads in 1 vs 100 weren't a bother at all. The virtual game show set is branded with Sprint signage. A between-sessions break throws more ads onto the screen, but even during that break a player can call up their stats and study their performance.

It's Live: Some of the announcer chatter during the live games of 1 vs 100 is canned. But host Chris Cashman will call out performances and talk about what's happening in the game. He'll also call players up, as he did with me, and record quick interviews that get played during the breaks. He chatted with me about my performance. I accused him of being as shady as the guy in Slumdog Millionaire. He laughed it off.

Everyone Gets A Shot: Microsoft has the right idea about getting new people into the hot-seats for this game. They estimate that up to 1500 people have a shot at getting in the Mob per live session. And the stats that improve your chance for selection ? earned by playing the Live and Extended versions of the game regularly ? will be re-set each week. So the elite players shouldn't get all the shots atFinal Thoughtsl Thoughts

For those of us who have failed to be competitive in first-person shooters, fighting games and other popular online Xbox Live games, we may finally be able to achieve some victories through 1 vs 100. The game doesn't have the nifty controllers of Sony's Buzz series, but if lag isn't a problem, the prospect of playing against hundreds of other gamers at once and schooling them at trivia should be a lot of fun.

Source: http://kotaku.com/5242159/1-vs-100-preview-an-mmo-game-show

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thanks for posting the info AB... sounds interesting... im def going to get into this game.. I can tell already that I am going to become frustrated if I dont get the chance to play as a "mob" contestant at the least...

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thanks for posting the info AB... sounds interesting... im def going to get into this game.. I can tell already that I am going to become frustrated if I dont get the chance to play as a "mob" contestant at the least...

Prepare to get frustrated then. On Kotaku it said as many as 1500 have a chance to get in the mob in one session but that is MS's target high number (my opinion). I can't wait to see the frustration of players when the 1 and the mob are all using their computers and nobody misses anything.

I'm my usual pessimistic self but I can't see the majority of users winning anything. I mean even the mob has to have 40 players eliminated before anyone of them can cash out!

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Not everyone is a winner, but if you get picked and you know your trivia, there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to win something. I do agree that it's a bit annoying that you have to get "picked" to stand a chance of winning, though, but if it's all free then I guess it's not too bad. I'm certainly looking forward to it and I'll be glad of the weekday trivia games, I can see myself playing those just for fun.

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Prepare to get frustrated then. On Kotaku it said as many as 1500 have a chance to get in the mob in one session but that is MS's target high number (my opinion). I can't wait to see the frustration of players when the 1 and the mob are all using their computers and nobody misses anything.

I'm my usual pessimistic self but I can't see the majority of users winning anything. I mean even the mob has to have 40 players eliminated before anyone of them can cash out!

I imagine there'll be a rather short time limit to answering questions to counteract that for the most part. I mean, it's trivia - you're either going to know the answer or you're not, so letting people dick around for more than about 10 seconds tops is pointless, and that amount of time wouldn't let anyone find the answer online.

-Spenser

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I imagine there'll be a rather short time limit to answering questions to counteract that for the most part. I mean, it's trivia - you're either going to know the answer or you're not, so letting people dick around for more than about 10 seconds tops is pointless, and that amount of time wouldn't let anyone find the answer online.

-Spenser

Even 10 seconds is plenty for some. Bah, I don't know why I just can't be happy with this.

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Even 10 seconds is plenty for some. Bah, I don't know why I just can't be happy with this.

check out the gameplay videos... it doesnt even seem like 10 seconds... if the gameplay videos were realtime.. there will not be enough time to check anything

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check out the gameplay videos... it doesnt even seem like 10 seconds... if the gameplay videos were realtime.. there will not be enough time to check anything

Agreed. Like I said, it's trivia. You either know the answer or you don't, so you don't need time. I'm sure they're not going to give much of it.

-Spenser

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