![]() The classic returns, full of wild new surprises.Ģ) The what-if game Split the Room (3-8 Players). In a vacuum (fitting, seeing how this is space-themed), this fifth game may have fared better, but Jackbox just has too many good games before it.It’s the biggest Party Pack yet with five party-saving new games!ġ) The pop-culture trivia mash-up YOU DON’T KNOW JACK: Full Stream (1-8 players). Mad Verse City and Patently Stupid are both exceptional games, but I don't think I would ever choose them over old standbys from previous packs like Fibbage and Quiplash. All of the concepts presented here are all exciting, but actually playing them produced mixed returns. My quarrel with The Jackbox Party Pack 5 is that from my experience, these games carried less of that Jackbox spirit that I mentioned. When you look back at all of the previous compilations from Jackbox Games, each one probably has just two or three exceptional games that you keep going back to. Even though I harp on You Don't Know Jack, the fake commercials for the fictional Binjpipe shows are quite funny, for example. The parts of The Jackbox Party Pack 5 are all quite funny, and undeniably lovingly crafted. Perhaps it's questionable to measure all of these games in terms of quality on a quantitative basis, as again, your mileage may vary. " fully embodies the spirit of Jackbox Party Packs that I appreciate-it's a platform for friends to make each other laugh."Īnd I suppose that's the ultimate point of the several games that Jackbox has produced over the years-to laugh and have a good time when around friends on some random weekend night. Ultimately, Zeeple Dome only seemed fun for those who revel in random chaos, as getting your alien where you want them to be is an unwieldy process. It surprisingly works well using a smartphone as a controller, though like Split the Room, this is not very streamer-friendly. Players will fling them towards enemy aliens, as they bounce around the stage like pinballs. One to six players will control their own little alien using their smart device, pulling the center of a circle to control the trajectory to launch their little alien friend. It's more action-oriented than any Jackbox game that I remember, depicting a dangerous, barbaric, and somehow adorable intergalactic competition. While Zeeple Dome is a largely experimental game for the series, it isn't one that I'm particularly hoping to see repeated in future packs. "There isn't too much to Mad Verse City, and frankly, it doesn't need that much-it's so easy to create something hilarious during every turn of this game." Plus, listening to the text-to-speech from these robots reciting your stupid verses is just objectively funny every time. ![]() There isn't too much to Mad Verse City, and frankly, it doesn't need that much-it's so easy to create something hilarious during every turn of this game. Players are opposed against each other one-on-one, with the others voting on which player had, ahem, the sickest and dopest rhymes. The only one that could really mess you up is yourself if you write yourself into a corner with a challenging word. ![]() Three to eight players control what are basically Transformers competing in rap battles: you'll be given a prompt to provide a single word, that word then being thrown into a rap lyric it will then be up to you to write a second lyric that rhymes. I fully expected Mad Verse City to be the marquee title of this compilation, and I certainly wasn't disappointed. Needless to say, Split the Room, therefore, is better with more people, and it definitely is less effective as a streaming game. The new and amplified "Jack Attack" is where things go awry, making players choose one or several multiple choices for a prompt in a format that feels more baffling than tense and rewarding. Perhaps a faltering player will be given the option to "screw" a fellow player during the next question, hampering their progress by say, making them scroll through a long and tedious terms-of-service agreement before they can respond to a trivia question. One to eight players will be thrown various questions often presented in an off-color fashion, with various wrenches thrown in during gameplay. The so-called "irreverent" trivia game comes across more as obnoxious and confusing rather than compelling, thrilling, and competitive. ![]() ![]() Perhaps this is blasphemy to say when reviewing a Jackbox game, but I was never particularly fond of You Don't Know Jack in the first place. While none of these games particularly fall apart, some of them are not as sustainable as you'd like them to be, considering the creativity of some of these game concepts. It all looks charming and quite promising, actually, but even the weaker games in the fourth game looked just as inviting. ![]()
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