Funny thing I noticed: Ubisoft's version of
Scrabble has a 2.3/5 rating on Xbox:
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How on Earth do you screw up
Scrabble, of all things? Let's check the reviews:
Most of the negative reviews mention the game just crashing on boot. Fuck's sake, it's fucking SCRABBLE! And apparently it's been out for years, never being fixed. Some of the positive reviews mention you have to have some other Ubisoft app installed, which is frankly nuts that you'd have to learn about it from reviews.
It's not really surprising, though. Most people here I'm sure will never play video game adaptations of board games or game shows, but I like those kinda games, and I can personally vouch for how Ubisoft's renditions are the most soulless versions I've ever seen. They have the personality of those self-ordering screens at McDonalds. Light jazz so generic it sounds autogenerated in the menus. Bland presentations that don't even carry the spirit of the game, like we're playing them in some sort of general multi-game simulator. It's hard to describe, but I'm sure you don't wanna sit through a ten minute video of me showcasing NES & SNES Monopoly vs. Ubisoft's Monopoly Plus vs. that one DS version of Monopoly where Rich Uncle Pennybags dances when you pause it: