I've tried playing this thing several times, however, I find it to be a very inferior product at best. On the plus side, the 3D rendition of the "Price is Right" set is cool looking, of course, however, there's just too many things about it that are just sub-par.
For example:
Would it really be so hard to include some live action footage into the thing? Have still-images of prizes that are clearly lifted from the show is asinine; there's really no reason why they couldn't have used the actual footage. Especially during the showcases, some actual footage would have really been useful.
Tood Newton's hosting is also fairly weak. Truth, he is not actually seen in the game, however, he comes off as bland, plodding, and faux-interested. In all honesty, Louie Anderson does a better job on the original CD-ROM version of "Family Feud"; based on Newton's performance in the game, I certainly hope he's not hand-picked to be Bob's successor on the real "Price is Right." One wonders why they didn't get Rich to do the hosting on this game; he seems like he really enjoys working on "The Price is Right" and would go for it.
The game is also extremely glitchy; I can't even begin to count how many times it has seized up, frozen, or had a completely unexpected outcome. For example, during a playing of Grand Game, I picked one of the products and after about three minutes of a black screen, the game suddenly switches to the middle of a playing of Five Price Tags. I checked the disc as well and found no visible scratches and/or smudges on it.
The entire affair seems very rushed as well; not being able to pick a specific pricing game from the menu rather than randomly wait for a specific one to come up strikes me as very poorly conceived; the Showcase Showdown comes off as very anti-climatic, it's annoying how the game switches from announcer to announcer every time a prize is described; it goes from Rich to Burton to Randy West to even ROD, among others; it seems very sloppy.
Maybe all DVD games are like this; I'm not certain, but, I chould certainly hope not. One would think they'd be better off putting this game on a regular CD-ROM, rather than plod through this game. If nothing else than to save one from all that continuous writing and erasing on those dry erase boards.
Anyone agree or disagree?