We’ve just received our copy of Buzz! Brain of the UK on the PS3 and the Three Speech compound has been ringing with shouted answers and screams of success. Why? Well, even though we all like to think we’re the biggest know-it-all, the fact that these questions are based around all things British really does bring out the squealing patriot in all of us.
Essentially this is very similar to Buzz! PS3, with the addition of a whopping 4,000 UK-related questions. You could almost picture Buzz! as the SingStar equivalent for the trivia genre - with potential to be used as a platform for regular downloadable and disc based content (Buzz! Brain of the UK features extra quiz packs to download). There is also the inclusion of online leaderboards, which serves as a good way of judging your own level of brainpower (or patrotism) against that of your friends (or the whole country).
It’s a nice thematic way of engaging all kinds of Buzz! fans by providing yet more content on a topic that is broad enough for everyone in the UK to grasp. If you and your family like Buzz!, you can’t go wrong.
To get you prepared, Three Speech poses this friendly question for our chums in the comments:
Which English singer-songwriter was born Declan MacManus in 1954?
No cheating!
I didn’t know without cheating!
Comment by reakt — Mar 31, 2009 @ 11:49 am
@reakt
same here.
Comment by manley — Mar 31, 2009 @ 11:58 am
Is it Fanpages?
Comment by mrsatansdojo — Mar 31, 2009 @ 12:23 pm
lol
Comment by manley — Mar 31, 2009 @ 12:44 pm
Havn’t a clue, that’s way too hard for a whippersnapper like me.
Comment by E-ROLE — Mar 31, 2009 @ 1:49 pm
Is it Ants mate?
Comment by marvzilla — Mar 31, 2009 @ 2:49 pm
It’s not me, but if you need a clue…
R Whites Lemonade (I’m a Secret Lemonade Drinker).
Mr MacManus sang backing vocals on his Dad’s composition for the (UK) TV advertising campaign from the early1970s.
BFN,
fp.
Comment by fanpages — Mar 31, 2009 @ 4:07 pm
(I see we’re not adopting Daylight Savings time here at present)
fp.
5:08pm
Comment by fanpages — Mar 31, 2009 @ 4:08 pm
@ FP - we’re on UTC at the moment…
Comment by Three Speech — Mar 31, 2009 @ 6:01 pm
“Coordinated Universal Time” is interesting for two reasons…
It is not Universally Co-ordinated, and bizarrely is shortened to an anagram of its own acronym to appease Anglo-French relations & not adopting the native abbreviation of either (not “CUT” or “TUC” from the French “temps universel coordonné”).
Funny how time is money, but the rest of Europe uses another currency, though.
Whilst you are scratching your collective heads over that, is anybody looking forward to the upcoming (rainy) bank holiday period where it is a national past-time to find excuses not to put up shelves in the back bedroom that were bought in the last Ikea sale.
Instead of this you could consider the following…
1) Why the UK still messes around with putting ‘the clocks’ forwards & backwards, and how various groups justify the reason for doing so.
2) How the Group of Twenty Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (or rather “19 + 1″ invitation request) are going to solve anything by meeting for a single day in London this week other than adding to London’s Police Farcing bill for the year just when we could do with saving a bit of money as some politicians at ‘home’ (or rather, second home) have been creative with their expense returns. Adult-oriented video rental is fine, though. It’s part of an Internet subscription.
and/or
3) Ponder why the UK is no longer considered to be in Europe during the announcement of a price reduction in the cost of a PS2 console.
You’ll be telling me next that the next Ratchet & Clank title (also curiously time-related) is going to be available on Blu-ray disc in Europe (but not the UK).
I guess there is more chance of a Co-ordinated Universal PlayStation Store before any of the above is resolved.
Vive Le Difference!
And enjoy the fact that you may now arrive home in time to see your house in daylight for the first time since last Autumn, erm, ‘Fall’, oh, sod it… October.
Talking of which… the start of Spring was always overnight on 20/21 March when I was at school. Apparently, that’s been dumbed-down to 1 March now, so that the geeks at the Meteorological department don’t have to worry about upsetting Pagans & Christians or something.
You don’t have to be mad to live here… but it helps.
BFN,
fp.
Comment by fanpages — Mar 31, 2009 @ 9:16 pm
PS. Three Speech:
(As you, ‘Alison’, ‘Veronica’, & I Don’t Want to Go To Chelsea this week due to some unwashed people demonstrating about global environment issues [and as a result subjecting a small area to emissions of another kind], perhaps we can see The Attractions elsewhere?)
Do you know if there are any plans for Trophies to be gained within the “Buzz! Brain of the UK” title that unlock features within the upcoming “PlayStation(r) Home” space location?
[ http://www.britishgaming.co.uk/?p=975 ]
I read at TheSixthAxis that the “SingStar” space will offer additional content once certain Trophies have been gained.
BFN,
fp.
Comment by fanpages — Apr 1, 2009 @ 7:24 am
@ FP - will try and find out…
Comment by Three Speech — Apr 1, 2009 @ 2:18 pm
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