Sky Sports Football Quiz - PlayStation

Sky Sports Football Quiz is a great way to settle arguments – or start a fight. Be careful who you invite to play. The game features several thousands of questions from all over the football world, with a fair number of pictures and audio clips as accompaniment. Up to four players are able to play four different game styles, including Dream Team, where answering questions correctly gains you virtual money, which is used to build up a custom team of players, and a fast-paced Penalty Shoot-Out mode for a quickfire challenge. Sky Sports Football Quiz rewards knowledge and speed, but punishes bad guesses with a red and yellow card system. You have been warned.

Kirsty Gallacher, omnipresent Sky One glamourpuss, is the on-screen host for the quiz. Kirsty offers instructions, adds commentary and guides players through the various sections of the game. There are over 4,500 questions to be asked, and let’s face it, by the time questions start coming around again, you’ll have forgotten everything you ever knew about Trevor Hebberd’s short career blip at Southampton. So you’ll get to do it all again. Hurrah! Longevity is the order of the day. Playing against the computer is all well and good, but the heart of Sky Sports Football Quiz is in its multiplayer mode. There’s nothing quite like that feeling of smugness when you answer a series of questions correctly. By the same token, there’s nothing to compare with the feeling of shame and embarrassment when a seemingly simple question comes and trips you up. Oh, the schadenfreude!

There’s plenty to keep the footy fan entertained here, and the best thing about it is that you don’t have to be any good at football itself. You don’t have to be the tactical genius behind the team, you don’t need to perform all those complicated finger/thumb combinations to dribble your way through the defence: an elephant’s memory of all things soccer-related will suffice. more