Family Fortunes: The Interactive DVD Game

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Family Fortunes: The Interactive DVD Game (2005)
[[File:|300px|center]] Our Survey Said... EH-OH! Wait, you barely hear it?!
Genre(s): Game Show Platform(s): DVD Player Release Date: November 2005 Developer(s): Imagination Games Publisher(s): Universal Pictures (UK) Ltd. Country: United Kingdom Series: Family Fortunes Successor: Family Fortunes - The Interactive DVD Game (2006)

Family Fortunes: The Interactive DVD Game is a DVD trivia game based on Family Fortunes, the UK version of Family Feud. It was developed by Imagination Games and distributed by Universal Pictures (UK) Ltd. in November 2005.

About

Much like the game show, two teams must answer surveys given out by 100 people to everyday scenarios. They must make as much money as possible throughout standard, Double Money, and Big Money rounds.

Why Our Survey Says... It Sucks

1. Much like with most DVD games based on game shows, the original presenters of the show (most famously Les Dennis) are not seen in one form or another. Instead, only a voiceover (Peter Dickson) is featured.
2. The theme tune to the game is cheap and vaguely resembles the tunes used on the actual show. The soundtrack to the rest of the game is generic and unfitting.
3. Cheap graphics, or well lack-of-graphics. The entire game takes place within the screen (named Mr. Babbage on the show) and you don't see anything else (eg, the rest of the set).
4. The game is one of the best examples of how little interactivity many trivia-style DVD games have. Aside from giving out the questions, the DVD's purpose is almost pointless as the players must write down their scores on the wipe-clean scoreboards that come with it and the DVD does not give out any indication of how many points you get per game. It completely takes out the fun of what makes Family Fortunes a fun game show.
5. Survey questions frequently repeat between games; sometimes as soon as you start it up again.
6. Much of the game's rules, especially within Big Money, are not faithful to the show.
   • In this game, both teams play the round must guess the top answers once per team, meaning that there are no marks for the second answer.
   • In the show as well as the 2001 PC game, Big Money is played by the winning team where two chosen contestants must reach up to 200 points in two turns to win the jackpot. Finding the Top Answers would increase the jackpot or win them a car or holiday, depending on the era.
7. False Advertising: The game's packaging markets it as having the show's famous "Eh-Uh!" sound for wrong answers, but it hardly plays - if at all.

Redeeming Qualities

1. At least the game is not that glitchy or slow; when compared to most DVD games of the time.

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