I bought this game on PSN about two years ago, but didn't play it very much. After the debacles that were the Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune games, I decided to give this (and game show video games in general) another chance.
The selling point of TPIR:D is to play TPIR in different years, the games I played ranged from 1977 to 2008. I'll assume you know how to play TPIR so I'll just skip that part. The obvious selling point to play the "pricing games." I've read from other reviews that not every pricing game is in this game, but the most famous ones are. One game I played was called "Professor Price," which was apparently only played two or three times in 1977. Once you play a pricing game, you unlock it and can play it separately by accessing the archive, which tells you the premiere date, ranking by premiere date and retired date (if the game was retired).
Well at least goofy characters are acceptable in this game, unlike Jeopardy, but your characters aren't too goofy. They physically react to things happening instead of laughing or whatever they do in the THQ game show games. Instead of Drew Carey or Bob Barker appearing in the game, the current announcer introduces the game.
The only problem with the game is the crowd sound. I know the crowd is almost always yelling during the game, but the sound in this game is almost like a riot is taking place in the studio. It's almost constant and even worse, it's loud. Even when I raised the music and voice all that way and had the crowd just one notch above zero, it was still pretty loud.
The game also has a tutorial mode to tell you how each pricing game is played, but at least you could skip those or (unlike the other mentioned games) tell the game to skip them in the options menu.
Overall, compared to Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune, this game is a marked improvment, but it's still simple and a game you should probably get if it's cheap or rentable. This game on PS3 is download only. It's on disc for Wii and Xbox 360.
Overall rating: B
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