When I only had the first Buzz game I always wanted to get a second set of controllers and try out the eight player mode. Unfortunately they weren't selling the controllers separately from the game and at that time the only other Buzz game out was Buzz Jr. Jungle Party. Now that we had received Hollywood Quiz with the packed-in controllers we were able to get a game together with eight people and it was great fun. When you have that many people who mostly have never played before it takes a little while to get set up if you let everyone pick their characters, outfits, buzz sounds and names. Like the last game the choices are all goofy fun but this time around they are additional avatars based on movie character spoofs. During the game Dan and I proved to be the movie minds (or at least the ones with the best reaction times) and we went back and forth with the lead. However none of this seemed to matter by the end as the last round almost completely determined the winners. The game throws a series of different rounds at you, all with different styles of questions and ways to answer. You build up points throughout these rounds that lead up to a final Pie Fight round where your points are translated into stars. Throughout the next set of questions whoever is the first one to answer correctly gets to throw a pie at any other player (including them self) and knock away one of the stars. Of course what ends up happening is that the people with the most stars end up getting targeted first and most likely will be the first ones knocked out. Regardless of how "fair" that might be, the game was a ton of fun with eight different people of various film knowledge levels all on pretty much equal ground. The game's corny-ish attitude gives off a great vibe of self-parody.

When you don't have other people around to play with the game lacks a little something. The spirit of competition is gone and the game shows off how much it was made to be played in a group. You are first giving a set of ten questions that you answer as quickly as possible. The faster you answer the more time that you bank for the final round. The maximum amount of time you can bank is 10 seconds per question for a total of 100 seconds up for grabs. I was only able to bank about 65 seconds since I had upped the difficulty to "Film Fanatic" but with my vast experience in the film industry (I was an Assistant Manager at a Cinemark after all) this was more my speed. A good way to tell which difficulty you should play on is determining what is the oldest movie you've ever seen. If you think about it and your answer is The Breakfast Club, you should probably stick with the normal mode. If it's something without color or sound than you're set to go with Film Fanatic.

After you bank your time your then sent into a mode where you answer questions and bank points. You can get up to 2500 points in a series before it's automatically banked for you, but if you've climbed up to 1500 points and get a question wrong your current series is wiped out. Luckily you can bank your points at any time, even during a question. Once the time you've banked has run out (it only ticks down after a question is asked) your game is over and if you have enough points, it's put up on a local leader board. Not the most glamorous thing, but it's not bad if there's no one else around and your overcome by the desire to get your Hollywood Quiz on.

A lot of the same features and modes carry over from The Mega Quiz like Quizmaster (where you run the show instead of charismatic host Buzz) and Quickfire Quiz. Just like any of these Buzz games they're best played with a group of people. If you're looking for a comparison to Scene It on the 360, this is definitely not a bad option. It's $20 cheaper and nearly as good. Where Scene It has a little more creativity with the type of questions they ask, Buzz is perfectly straight forward fun that won't disappoint you.

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