Buzz! The Big Quiz with 4 Buzzers (PS2)

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Buzz! is a series of video games originated by Sleepydog Ltd., [1] [2] developed by Relentless Software and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable consoles. They are quiz games that see the players answering trivia questions while competing in the fictional game show Buzz!. Created specifically with multi-player party gaming in mind, the series launched in October 2005 and to date comprises 18 games; including 13 in the Buzz! series and five Buzz! Junior titles. The series made the transition to the PlayStation 3 with Buzz!: Quiz TV in 2008. The sixteenth game in the series Buzz!: Brain of the UK was released in March 2009. [3] The latest Buzz! game is Buzz!: The Ultimate Music Quiz which was released in October 2010. a b c Palmisano, Fabio (21 December 2005). "Cuffie in testa e mani sul pulsante: è ora di giocare a Buzz! The Music Quiz". Multiplayer.it . Retrieved 9 August 2020. Phillips, Tom (5 August 2016). "Buzz! developer Relentless shut down". Eurogamer . Retrieved 7 August 2016. The game debuted in the top 20 on the United Kingdom's video game chart and climbed into the top10, before a steep decline caused it to leave the charts. Relentless was at that point working on Buzz! The Big Quiz and received a call from Sony saying that The Big Quiz could likely be the last in the series. However, The Music Quiz returned to the top 20 during the Christmas and New Year holiday period. According to Relentless creative director David Amor, the game's peak sales occurred in the week after Christmas. [10] a b c Orry, Tom (October 23, 2006). "Buzz! Junior: Jungle Party Review". VideoGamer . Retrieved November 29, 2019.

As of 10 September 2009, Buzz!: Quiz TV fully supports game launching. [14] Game launching is a feature that allows users to set up multi-player games in Home and launch directly into the game from Home. Buzz!: Quiz World supports PlayStation Home rewards by winning the quiz rounds in the game. Caoili, Eric (26 November 2008). "ELSPA: Wii Fit, Mario Kart Reach Diamond Status In UK". Gamasutra. Archived from the original on 18 September 2017. The series was launched in October 2005 and has been nominated for several BAFTA categories throughout its reign. One of the games, Buzz!: The BIG Quiz won the BAFTA award for Best Casual and Social game in 2006. The series transitioned from PlayStation 2 to PlayStation 3 in 2008 with Buzz!: Quiz TV. The series was also nominated for Best Social Game and Best Multiplayer Game categories for the 2009 BAFTA video game awards.Nevertheless, Relentless Software broke ground with Buzz! on PS3, claiming "a number of firsts". "It's extraordinary what we did," boasted Eades. "We had the first playable user-generated content before LittleBigPlanet; we had the first Trophies ever on a PlayStation game; and we also had the first Facebook connect in a PlayStation game - on any console in fact. a b c d Kautz, Paul (26 October 2005). "Test: Buzz! Das Musik-Quiz (Musik & Party)". 4Players . Retrieved 9 August 2020. Relentless released 12 presumably Sony-commissioned Buzz! games for PS3 - including the Junior titles. That's hardly destitution. "We did well on PS2," admitted Eades. "We also did well on PS3, frankly."

Reed found the buzzers comfortable and easy to use with just one hand, albeit insubstantial, [3] and Ramsay felt that their inclusion a "welcome novelty". [4] Sales [ edit ] Buzz and the Buzz! Studio are featured in Dreamscape where he'll dictate a question and the fighters have to stand on the highlighted platform with the correct answer, otherwise, they'll get a pie thrown at them.

Children's Awards 2007 Winners and Nominees". 2007-11-25. Archived from the original on 2009-01-06 . Retrieved 2007-12-07. Buzz Stop – Conceptually the same as Snap, but players have to press the buzz button when theirs are lit. Whoever presses the buzz button correctly gets the chance to answer the given question or pass it to another player. ELSPA Sales Awards: Platinum". Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association. Archived from the original on 15 May 2009 . Retrieved 18 January 2009. The series comprises eighteen games, thirteen of which are part of the Buzz! Series, five of which are part of the Buzz! Junior series. The last game of the series, Buzz!: The Ultimate Music Quiz was released in 2010, and this is the first time we have seen a title from this series. Well they could," mused Eades, "but I challenge anyone to be better than us at a quiz game and certainly a Buzz! game. A fresh pair of eyes might help in some respects, but when you've done Buzz! for five years it's in your bones."

Many PS5 users have been lamenting the eventual dying out of the Buzz! Games as they remain confined to the PS2 and the PS3. Reddit users have been saying they would love to see Buzz! for a while now (Remastered or just released on the PS5). After joining the many other Sony Intellectual Properties in the game graveyard, gamers have come up with ideas on how Sony could make a revival for the game series work. Once the game starts, Buzz leads the players through several rounds, each of which contains different objectives and rules. There are eight types of rounds: [3] [4] [8] Buzz Relentless Q and A". thumbbandits.com. Archived from the original on 24 January 2008 . Retrieved 7 February 2008. Linger, Elliot (26 August 2009). "The Buzz! Tomato Challenge Makes Its Way Into PlayStation Home". SCE . Retrieved 26 August 2009. a b Lafferty, Michael (October 22, 2006). "Buzz! Jr.: Jungle Party Review". GameZone. Archived from the original on September 29, 2009 . Retrieved November 29, 2019.

Sony might have to seriously pull something out of its hat if they are going to remaster or reproduce Buzz! for the PS5. Usually, when a game is remastered, the original developers are involved in the project. Unfortunately, the developers of the Buzz! games series, Relentless Software, ended up closing in 2016, meaning this is no longer an option. This being said, a company as big as Sony could find a healthy workaround for this unfortunate situation. The solution may be as simple as finding some developers who worked on the original games and hiring them as a development team specifically to bring the Buzz! games to the PS5. If you don't have 100 million consoles [as PS2 did when Buzz! first arrived], you don't have a broad-enough demographic to want our kind of game. Of course the idea was to bring the broad games straight to PlayStation 3 in the launch window, to try and attract that demographic.