What is a fairly boring American quiz show game only released on the Xbox 360 in the NTSC region. Yes is Jeopardy. Another of the myriad of USA exclusive quiz show games, Jeopardy, like most of the others, is pretty much exactly what you would expect it to be. You can play jeopardy single player against the computer, you can play multiplayer against your friends and there are some Jeopardy related mini games. There are 3 different levels of the difficulty. The easy mode gives you multiple choice answers to the question, which works fine in terms of the speed of the game, but ends up being a bit easy. The medium and difficult levels have you type your own answer using the controller. This is extremely clumsy and makes the game really slow. Neither method works well and leaves the game feeling a bit lackluster. Another notable issue is the absence of Alex Trebek, the famous Jeopardy announcer. It seems like a strange omission, but the budget feel of the game is probably why. There aren't many voiced lines in the game and the sounds in general are quite repetitive. Perhaps they were in a rush to release the game or perhaps it was budget constraints, but Jeopardy is nothing more than shovel ware and just not much fun to play.

I've been playing Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune games with my family for a long time. We've played Jeopardy games from floppy disks, N64 carts, mobile browsers, and everything in between. Normally, the game is best with a keyboard. But the Wii U Gamepad (and Wii remote support) easily makes this the best console Jeopardy game I've tried.

Look past the rudimentary visuals and simple presentation aside, because only one thing really matters: This does Jeopardy right. Puzzles are varied and plentiful, the game is responsive, and the controllers allow you to enter your responses much more quickly than standard console controllers. If you're just looking for a solid way to play Jeopardy on your TV, you can't go wrong with the Wii U version.