{"id":21794,"date":"2021-12-10T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T00:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=21794"},"modified":"2021-11-13T13:33:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T13:33:23","slug":"the-jackbox-party-pack-8-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/10\/the-jackbox-party-pack-8-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jackbox Party Pack 8 (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If you have a bunch of people over to play games during the holidays, but not enough controllers to play with everyone, then Jackbox has you covered!\u00a0 Their latest batch of party games is out, and all you need are cell phones or tablets to play them!\u00a0 Just connect to Jackbox.tv on any mobile device and enter in the room code and you\u2019re in!\u00a0 It\u2019s pretty simple and works well, and in some games, even people who don\u2019t have cell phones can be part of the audience and participate, too.\u00a0 The Jackbox Party Pack 8 is available on most anything that can play games, but reviewed on PS4 here.\u00a0 Let\u2019s take a quick look at the five games on this collection.<\/p>\n

Drawful Animate<\/strong><\/p>\n

This one is very similar to other drawing charades games like Pictionary or Win, Lose, or Draw.\u00a0 Except here you get two blank pages to draw a two-frame animation!\u00a0 You get points if people guess your topic correctly or if you guess one of theirs, and you can also vote and get points if you are accurate as well.\u00a0 This one\u2019s fun, but really hard to draw something on a small cell phone screen with your finger.\u00a0 Especially since one of the topics I got was \u201cCaveman Roller Rink.\u201d\u00a0 Seriously, how do you draw that?\u00a0 Maybe if you were using a tablet, it would be easier.<\/p>\n

The Wheel of Enormous Proportions<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a trivia game where if you answer questions correctly, you get a slice of a wheel.\u00a0 Then after a few questions, you get to spin the wheel and if it lands on one of your slices, you get points.\u00a0 Whoever gets to a certain amount of points first, wins.<\/p>\n

Job Job<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is really the only game I liked in this collection.\u00a0 You answer a couple of job interview questions, then the game mixes your words up, then you must answer a third by using the words given to you from everyone\u2019s answers, ransom note style.\u00a0 Then you vote on the best answers and whoever gets the most points, gets the job!<\/p>\n

Poll Mine<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another trivia style game, but this one uses poll questions kind of like Family Feud, I think.\u00a0 You have to pick 8 answers to a question, and then choose the answers that everyone picked.\u00a0 If you pick correctly, you get a torch and can move onto the next part of the cave you\u2019re exploring.\u00a0 The problem with this game is the rules are confusing and I wasn\u2019t sure if we were choosing poll answers from us or another survey taken earlier by others.<\/p>\n

Weapons Drawn<\/strong><\/p>\n

And last is another drawing charades game, but this time mixed with a murder mystery.\u00a0 You have to draw selected ways that someone was murdered, but you are forced to include a letter of your name in the picture, because each player murdered someone as well.\u00a0 You get points if you can guess another player\u2019s murder weapon, and you can also get points if you get away with murder and nobody guesses yours.\u00a0 The problem I had with this one is that the rules were really confusing and I think these kinds of games should be immediately understandable to a group of people.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately I\u2019d have to say this is one of the weaker Jackbox collections I\u2019ve reviewed.\u00a0 Normally these collections have a few really good ones and some weak ones, but I\u2019d have to say almost all the games here except for Job Job were not so great.\u00a0 Too many confusing rules and such.\u00a0 I\u2019d like to thank my family for putting up with me and playing these games for my review.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Jackbox Party Pack 8 is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Alcohol and Tobacco Reference, Suggestive Themes, Mild Blood, Language, Fantasy Violence, and Comic Mischief.\u00a0 Most of these games on here are just as dirty as you make them to be.\u00a0 One neat thing they added to this one is that on most of the games, it\u2019ll tell you if they are family friendly or not, and you can toggle a kid friendly switch on all but one of the games.\u00a0 That game being Weapons Drawn, since it involves murder.\u00a0 But I think the family friendly toggle option is a great idea.\u00a0 I think someday, Jackbox should make a collection of all kid friendly games, with topics and questions geared toward kids.\u00a0 Don\u2019t you think that would be a neat idea?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you have a bunch of people over to play games during the holidays, but not enough controllers to play with everyone, then Jackbox has you covered!\u00a0 Their latest batch of party games is out, and all you need are cell phones or tablets to play them!\u00a0 Just connect to Jackbox.tv on any mobile device […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21796,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21794\/revisions\/21796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}