Cheggers Party Quiz is a party quiz game where players compete against each other to answer questions correctly in a series of rounds. Keith Chegwin appears as the host in CGI form, giving updates on which players are in the lead and interjecting with one-liners. The game features a selection of thousands of questions for players to answer. The players have the option of starting a short, medium or long game but cannot customise this to include specific round types. The questions are based on television shows, film and music from up to two decades before the game's release date. Round types include a slow reveal round where question marks slowly turn into letters or the "channel hopping" round where each player's answers are briefly revealed and everyone has a chance to change their answer. There are also a rounds where the fastest player to buzz in can answer and another where the answer must be guessed from picture clues. Altogeter there are 8 round types known as "Opening Night", "Big Break", "Picture Show", "Star Turn", "Prime Time", "Typecast", "Channel Hopping" and "Final Cut". Whereas the PlayStation 2 version uses the DualShock controller and an "L1" button press to buzz in, the Wii version utilises the motion sensitive Wii Remote, requiring players to lift their hand and the remote in the air as fast as they can.
Development
During an interview, Keith Chegwin stated that he had recorded over 900 separate voice overs and that the process was more ad-libbed than strictly scripted. Alan Hansen's Sports Challenge was developed concurrently with Cheggers Party Quiz and both games were released in tandem on the same dates.
Reception
rated the game 10/100, noting that it was a "bottom feeding attempt to draw nourishment from the Chegwin name" and summarised it as an "indefensible, user-unfriendly, graphically stilted, nauseatingly joyless and crash-prone wreck of game. Eurogamer gave the game a 6/10, saying that it would be good entertainment for the family on Boxing Day, but that "it would be gathering dust by New Year".
Controversy
In early copies of the Microsoft Windows port of Cheggers Party Quiz, video files played in-game are stored in the "Movies" directory of the game, an unused file titled "RINT0_02" contained a bizarre video clip of Chegwin giggling off-camera, walking into frame nude and screaming at the viewer. The unused file was found only after a few months of the game's original release date, with Oxygen Games quietly releasing an updated version of Cheggers Party Quiz with the video file in question completely removed. Allegedly, mentions of the incident on the GamesRadar Forum would lead to moderators deleting the posts under "libel" and some users would suspect a cover-up, but ultimately the controversy died out. Youtube videos that contained footage of the file were removed, and only a single archived screenshot has resurfaced.
