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Buzz The Mega Quiz for PlayStation 2
Buzz The Mega Quiz for PlayStation 2 brings a wide-ranging television quiz into the living room, with more than five thousand questions covering music, film, sport, history, science, nature and everyday life. One to eight contestants choose a character and answer with wired Buzz controllers. The large red button determines who responds first in fast rounds, while the four coloured buttons correspond to the answers on screen. Host Buzz runs the contest from his studio and alternates ordinary text questions with photographs, audio clips and short video sequences.
The contest combines knowledge with rounds that affect the score in different ways. Point Picker lets the winner choose the next category. In Fastest Finger, both a correct answer and reaction speed count, while Winner Stays On pits the best player against a new challenger each time. In High Stakes, every contestant decides how many points to wager on an answer. The final can reduce an accumulated lead, so paying attention remains important until the last question.
You can play a separate challenge alone or hold a complete local quiz with two to eight people. Five to eight contestants require two full sets of four Buzz controllers; each set uses one USB port on the PlayStation 2. With a second controller kit, eight players can take part on the same console at once. This offer concerns the game. The required Buzz controllers are included only when the product explicitly says so. No network features are needed for the local quiz.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 2 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Buzz The Mega Quiz requires wired Buzz controllers for PlayStation 2. One set supports up to four players; five to eight players need two complete sets, each connected to its own USB port. This offer concerns the game. Buzz controllers are included only when the product explicitly says so.
Manual
Buzz The Mega Quiz for PlayStation 2 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Buzz The Mega Quiz
Relentless Software developed Buzz The Mega Quiz for PlayStation 2 as the fourth major quiz instalment in the Buzz series. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe released the European version on 11 May 2007. After The Music Quiz, The Big Quiz and The Sports Quiz, the studio returned to general knowledge, but with a completely new question bank and revised rounds. Host Buzz, assistant Rose and the wired five-button controllers remained the recognisable centre of the game show.
The developer compiled more than five thousand questions and divided them across a wide variety of categories. Photographs, audio and video meant that not every answer had to be derived from text. Familiar rounds based on speed and stealing points were joined by Point Picker, High Stakes and Winner Stays On. Two controller kits could be connected at the same time, allowing eight contestants to join the local contest without passing a single handset between turns.
The Mega Quiz appeared during a period when Sony was rapidly expanding the Buzz series with separate themes and Junior instalments. The game arrived a few months before The Hollywood Quiz and served as a broad counterpart to the specialised music, sport and film quizzes on PS2. North America received the title later in 2007. This original European release uses wired USB controllers and the 2007 question bank; wireless Buzzers, downloadable questions and online play belong to later PlayStation 3 games, not this version.
Similar games for PlayStation 2
Buzz The Mega Quiz continues the general-knowledge approach and eight-player support of The Big Quiz. The later entry again has more than five thousand questions but adds different rounds, including Point Picker and Winner Stays On. The Big Quiz represents the earlier format with Hitman and Look Before You Leap. Both provide a broad quiz using the same controllers, but with different question banks and scoring rules.
Buzz The Mega Quiz, like The Big Quiz, focuses on broad general knowledge and lets up to eight people play with two controller kits. The Music Quiz supports four contestants and builds every category around music. Both offer more than five thousand questions and mix fast responses with scoring rounds. Mega Quiz better serves a group with varied interests; The Music Quiz rewards recognition of melodies, performers and years.
Like Hollywood Quiz, Buzz The Mega Quiz is a later PS2 entry with more than five thousand questions and eight players through two controller sets. Mega Quiz focuses on broad general knowledge and continually changes categories. Hollywood Quiz keeps every section within the world of cinema and adds Rollover and Fact or Fiction, among others. A mixed group gets more subjects in Mega Quiz, while movie enthusiasts find longer runs centred on their own interest here.
Buzz The Sports Quiz limits its question bank to football, tennis, athletics, motor racing and dozens of other sports. Mega Quiz includes sport but alternates it with film, music, history, science and general knowledge. Both support eight local contestants with two controller kits. Sports Quiz uses its own rounds such as Risk and Estimation, while Mega Quiz distinguishes itself with Point Picker, High Stakes and Winner Stays On, among others.
Buzz The Pop Quiz focuses on popular music, artists and video clips, mainly from the 1990s and the early twenty-first century. Mega Quiz treats music as one category alongside many other subjects. Both use wired Buzz controllers and audiovisual questions. Pop Quiz demands more specialised knowledge of hits and bands, while Mega Quiz more often gives contestants with strengths in different subjects an opportunity to win points back.
