Attempting to rise above the extreme distastefulness that was The Man Game from a few years back, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Challenge comes at you with loads of sports trivia and half-naked women. Despite whatever
initial thoughts you may already be having about the game, SISC is actually a pretty impressive trivia game. With questions ranging from baseball greats to gender-exclusive Olympic sports, you’ll be hard pressed to get through a round (which is 10 questions) without missing at least three questions. Featuring three rounds in every game, you’ll have to become a great speed-reader if you hope to succeed. The app only gives you a handful of seconds to read each questions and its many answers, but the game does help you out by eliminating answers as the time progresses.
After completing a game of trivia, you’ll be given some cash to spend depending on how well you did. What can you spend on it on you ask? By going to “The Den,” you can purchase pictures and videos of the beautiful SI models from their latest swimsuit shoot. Now this is where the game starts to switch from an intelligent and challenging trivia game to a bit of a creeper hiding in the bushes. Instead of buying packaged pictures, you have to individually select which pictures you want of the 20 different models featured in the game. Because of the sheer number of pictures featured in the game coupled with the menu’s poor interface, this quickly becomes more of a chore than a reward and you won’t find yourself visiting the section more than once or twice.
The ability to add your own songs while playing makes up for the games poor sound effects, but, at the end of the day, what more can you really ask from a trivia game? The interface that is used to actually play is simple enough and the trivia is a blast even if it does repeat questions a little too often. If you want to look at the models then go buy the magazine, but if you’re looking for one the most challenging sports trivia games on the market then look no further.
