The Jackbox Party Pack 2
DISCLAIMER: This review is written by a European player. My opinion might (and probably will) differ from a player from this game’s target audience: The American player base. Please also note that this review was written in 2020, as though several other packs have released after that.
Do I recommend the Jackbox Party Pack 2?
- Yes, absolutely.
Individual game review:
Fibbage 2:
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A classic of the Jackbox Games.
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Better than the 1st one.
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Possibility to trick your friends to win.
– Real player with 58.3 hrs in game
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Ah, Party Pack 2, Easily earns the #1 Spot in order of favorite pack out of the three. This pack’s filled with gems, and honestly, there are more games that I’d give a higher rating here than in 3 and 1 combined. Each and every game in this pack gets a high rating from me. Let’s begin, shall we?
Bidiots - 9.3/10 - Bidiots is my 3rd Favorite Game made by Jackbox, with first being Tee K.O, and 2nd being You Don’t Know Jack. Bidiots is an absolutely hilarious take on art auctions. I have no clue what I’m doing, and neither does anyone else I play with, but it is oddly very competitive and addicting. Draw 2 Drawings based on silly prompts you’re given (much like Drawful), and then let the auction commence! Each person has an art professional on their team that will tell them three paintings worth a big sum of cash. But since this is Jackbox, you’ve gotta try and guess which of those paintings you’re seeing at the moment, or if you’re not seeing a valuable one. Are they saying the beer bottle painting is worth a good sum of cash? Haven’t seen a beer bottle and you’re over halfway done? Shucks man, that beer bottle you’re looking for could’ve been that penis-looking painting you didn’t bid for 10 minutes ago! We’re not done yet though. The host has a hilarious British accent, this game takes the Screws from You Don’t Know Jack which you can use once per game, forcing the person you use it on to bid on artwork. Best of all, there is a loanshark company in this game with the catchiest jingle you’ve ever heard. Dammit Jackbox, I played this game for the first time in December, and I still have the Predatory Loans Jingle in my head! Anyway, this is an absolute masterpiece, and it takes the cake for this pack with Earwax JUST behind.
– Real player with 39.5 hrs in game
The Jackbox Party Pack 6
As per usual, this party pack follows the trend of a couple amazing games and a few forgettable ones.
That being said, the good games in this pack are really fucking good.
Trivia Murder Party 2 is an overall improvement from the original. The kill rooms are more unique, the questions are harder, and the race at the end was made just a tad more difficult. Is it better than the first? Up to you, but mostly, yes.
Dictionarium is… boring. It’s a game about words, you make definitions, then you make new words based on the definitions. It’s like a literature nerd’s take on the game Telephone, but it just doesn’t make the cut.
– Real player with 154.0 hrs in game
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Yes. Yes. Yes.
The Jackbox Party Pack 6 nails everything perfectly. The perfect trivia game, the perfect word game, the perfect deceit game, the perfect joke game. Everything about this pack is bliss. I’ll go over each game individually.
JOKE BOAT - The joke spewing comedy club, Joke Boat. Good visuals, fun music and host. Only drag to this game is it’s length, but it depends on the crowd you play it with. Overall pretty good and funny.
TRIVIA MURDER PARTY 2 - The long awaited sequel to the long beloved game. This sequel balances out the imperfections of the original by making Killing Rooms easier to survive and more fun to play through. Sometimes I hoped to get a question wrong to play! The music, visuals, style, and feel make this the perfect sequel to a perfect game.
– Real player with 41.3 hrs in game
Quiz Night Tonight!
Purchased this game for myself and my bf. Attempted to play the VR version. Spent 2 hours trying to play together with no luck. We were both able to be in the same online lobby but unable to pass that area, continued searching for players. Very disappointed!! Not worth the $10
– Real player with 1.2 hrs in game
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I gotta say this is a nice vr thing to do!
there are two side games but besides that you dont have to use movements in the two general modes, its really fun to play.
I tried to play online but couldn’t find enough players, this game can also be played without vr, so hopely in the future this will get a nice public
The questions you have to answer are from historical, and about very recent things or people to, its not always easy to answer on the sport questions if you are from a different country. i got second place against AI and im not american :D
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
The Jackbox Party Pack 5
Mad Verse City: 10/10
Patently Stupid: 9/10
You Don’t Know Jack: 7/10
Split The Room: 6/10
Zeeple Dome: 3/10
Price: 25 USD / EUR
Verdict: Amazing game for parties or with friends online,
Grab it on a minor sale or even full price
What is the Jackbox Party Pack and how do I play it?:
Each edition of the Jackbox Party Pack contains five minigames. To play, only one person needs to own the game. That person needs to either stream it on a monitor if you’re playing with friends in the same room, or stream it via Twitch / Discord Screen Share etc. Players then watch the stream while entering answers to prompts via the website jackbox.tv on their mobile device or pc browser.
– Real player with 76.5 hrs in game
Ooh boy, here we go. A party pack with a MIXED review? Well, lets dive in!
YOU DON’T KNOW JACK: FULL STREAM: (1-8 players)
The game with High culture and Pop culture collide! Not to sell out to Binjpipe or anything, but I had a bunch of fun with this game. Being my first dive into the YDKJ games, I had fun with most of it. The questions are weird, the few times I had other people in game the screws get super wacky, and Dis or Dat is a pretty fun question type. Which leads into the worst thing about it: question types. Most of them are good, except for one. The flickerpiss nosecum gibberish question. God damn I hated this so much. It was just super annoying, and after 20 of these fuckers, I FINALLY got one right. (Wont feta bread slugs fight: Don’t let the bed bugs fight) And another problem I had is that most people don’t really do JackBox for the Trivia games anymore. I mean Trivia Murder Party was pretty good, but that’s as far as most people will go with short attention spans. Good thing it supports 1 players, since that’s the majority of my time playing this game was with myself.
– Real player with 75.6 hrs in game
The Jackbox Party Pack 8
Another great party pack. Each of the games is fun, my friend group gets the most laughs out of Job Job. With some of the games, you can go on the Jackbox TV site afterwards and order a ridiculous NSFW T-shirt with a line from one of the games you’ve played. If Jackbox has gone over well with your friends, Pack 8 won’t disappoint.
– Real player with 12.0 hrs in game
I was once with a jew and 7 muslims when I entered a bar in Bismarck, North Dakota. In case you didn’t know, this is the capital of South Dakota. And so, it was in this snowy summer day in Montana that I heard a client who looked drunk as fuck(lmao I’m rofling thinking about it), and he started explaining to me why the radical left partakes in speedrunning. Sadly, I did not get to hear his whole speech. I did, however, catch the end of it: “[…]in a petersonian sense, to elevate the alternatives in the sexual marketplace, open parenthesis, the fastest hedgehog, close parenthesis.” I did not understand a single word he said, and I still do not. I think he was on heroin, as well as substances such as: weed, marijuana, MJ, cannabis and the devil’s lettuce, among other things.
– Real player with 8.6 hrs in game
The Jackbox Party Pack 4
DISCLAIMER: This review is written by a European player. My opinion might (and probably will) differ from a player from this game’s target audience: The American player base. Please also note that this review was written in 2020, as though several other packs have released after that.
Do I recommend the Jackbox Party Pack 4?
- Yes, get it ASAP.
Individual game review:
Fibbage 3:
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A classic of the Jackbox Games.
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Very cool visuals
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The main mode is as fun as the other games with a definitely better 3rd round.
– Real player with 93.0 hrs in game
You know the drill, lets take a deep dive into each game individually and check it’s strengths and weaknesses.
FIBBAGE 3: (2-8 players)
Its Fibbage, but super duper swanky. In case you haven’t done this before, you get a fact with a part missing and you type in a lie to hopefully fool everyone else into picking it over the correct answer. But back to the visuals: Seriously, in the party pack it missed it got a HUMONGOUS visual overhaul. Gone is the super duper gray style of 1 and XL and the green and light purple of 2, in 3 it goes for a 70’s look, and its very pleasing on the eyes. You may also get a random question in between games. So far I’ve gotten Russian Fibbage, Celebrity Social Media, and Time to Look at this. These questions provide a unique twist in the questions seen in the game. Russian Fibbage has you learn new Russian phrases, Celebrity Social Media (yes i sang the tune in my head as i typed it) is predicting whatever Kim Kardashian says that she can do now, and Time to Look at this involves a picture in the question, usually an obscure art piece. It provided me with a much better experience than Party pack 2 did.
– Real player with 54.1 hrs in game
The Jackbox Party Pack
A whole (insert unit) of fun. Get your friends together for some fun. I guess I’ll be like everybody else and break the 5 games down one at a time.
Word Spud:
The general consensus is that this game is bad. There’s a reason for that, it’s because it is bad. You’ll play it once and then it’ll turn into a Bad Rats-style joke. The game I played devolved into my friends and I typing “gay Alexis is gay” over and over. 2/10 standard rating 10/10 from IGN.
Lie Swatter:
A mediocre game that you won’t play much. True or false gets boring after a few rounds, even with categories like “Shaq rap lyrics” and “butt holes.” (Those were the actual two final round topics I first got.) 5/10 standard 10/10 from IGN.
– Real player with 22.8 hrs in game
I bought this game on a Steam Sale, but, trust me on this, the Jackbox Party Packs are worth the full $25. If I had a nickel for every time I’ve packed my laptop to a house party JUST FOR THIS GAME, I’d have enough money to buy the trilogy. You just need your laptop and an internet connection to start it up. Listen, the game uses your phone as the controller, which means literally every single person you ask to play with you immediately have a frame of reference for how it works. That’s priceless. No teaching controls, no explaining mechanics, just “look at the TV, go to that site, enter the code.” I don’t care if you have an Android, iPhone, or cheap knockoff iPad; if you have an internet browser, you can play this game. The games offer the prompt, then your phone’s browser lets you submit your response. Super easy. I’ve seen socially reserved people suddenly become the funniest f***er at the party, not because they’re social butterflies, but because they were witty with their lies on Fibbage.
– Real player with 22.7 hrs in game
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
This game is beautifully made and very realistic looking. Choice of different male and female avatars to pick from. It’s a fun game to play with up to 10 friends. You can play solo, take turns answering the questions or compete against friends. The level of difficulty increased as I advanced in the game. I also get to unlock packs of more topics with the currency earned in the game. I tried playing online, but was unable to connect to any players to get the co-op achievement in the game. So I looked into the Hub for the game and found friends that I added to get the achievement. I think this achievement might be obtainable with the Remote Play as long as at least one player connects using a controller. The game needs some dialog improvements with the host while interacting with contestants. Voices overlap between the host and some contestant when the final answer is confirmed, however it doesn’t interfere with the game to the point of obstructing play. Is something that the developers will have to fix with an update and shouldn’t prevent anyone from buying it. In my opinion it’s a game worth trying despite the mixed reviews. There are some questions where the answers are wrong e.g., Ryan Seacrest is the host for American Idol, but in the game the answer is marked as incorrect and America’s Got Talent as the right answer. This was a mistake done by the programmer and I hope that the developers fix it along with the other few wrong answers in the game. The price is way too high instead should sell for about $9.99. I wish that in the future more topic packs of questions are added and I can join online contestants from all over the world. The game was released only 4 months ago and it’s available in multiple languages,which is great because in my case I can speak more than one language so I will be enjoying the game several times over practicing those languages 3
– Real player with 26.8 hrs in game
If I’m going to be honest, we were sure due for another WWTBAM game since 2011 (Special Editions), and honestly, I personally enjoy it.
Now, I can get with the few sceptics from other reviewers, but personally, this game is catered for everyone who wants a bit of fun, not just fans of the show who knows most things about the show off by heart.
Updates would be needed to improve on the game, but I personally think we need to understand that they’ve at least put the effort in trying to replicate the dialogue of game, as seen on shows, the localisation with the intros, graphics and questions, trying to get people around the world, or in their respective country, to play the game together, which hardly has been done before on online.
– Real player with 14.1 hrs in game
What The Dub?!
Overall, my gaming group loves it as an addition to the Jackbox stuff.
It is very well done and fun! You can make it as clean or as dirty as you like which means everyone can play. The clips are weird and esoteric enough that most people won’t know where they’re from and that is perfect. I hope they add more.
I do have some minor suggestions, though.
Something more for the audience to do. Maybe they could throw out suggestions on screen or something. Just a thought. Being in the audience can be boring at times. I know more players would mean more repeating clips, but maybe have the game know when there are more than 6 and only use short clips for that game so it doesn’t get too monotonous.
– Real player with 8.8 hrs in game
As an English teacher during this seemingly never-ending pandemic, thank you for this game! It’s so simple to set up and incorporate What the Dub into online lessons via Zoom, Microsoft Teams etc that I’d recommend it to any and all ESL teachers.
The included video clips manage to be both humorous in their dubbing potential whilst also being relatively simple in terms of their language that it allows students who are A2 level and above to reliably produce clever, funny or appropriately wacky sentences. Moreover, the simplicity of the game makes it suitable for everyone over the age of 10 and the price is very fair for what’s offered.
– Real player with 8.3 hrs in game
Drawful 2
( YES, You only need one copy of Drawful 2 to have all your friends play. You do not need additional copies for each persons phone/device )
Group of 4 really enjoyed this game. It was hard to for some to understand how the strategy of the game goes so maybe this will help
-First phase: Everyone draws a picture of the Titles provided
-Second phase: A players picture is selected at random, all other players observe the drawn picture and create convincing titles for the drawing to be added to the title guessing phase based on what they think the image looks like.
– Real player with 33.8 hrs in game
✼ Audience: ✼
☐ Attempt To Recite Your ABCs
☐ Older Children
☐ Teens
☐ Adults
☑ Everyone (The appropriateness of this title largely if not entirely is dependant on the other players and what they draw in response to the prompts provided. Given you have some half-decent players moral wise I don’t see why this shouldn’t be suitable for all audiences.)
✼ Difficulty: ✼
☐ Could Be Played On Guitar Hero Controller
☐ Easy
☑ Casual (Creativity and slight art skills.)
☐ Moderate Difficulty
☐ Difficult
– Real player with 14.7 hrs in game