The Worst Game On The Wii

The relative popularity of daytime game show Golden Balls is born entirely out of the enjoyment viewers derive from the bluffing aspect of the game. As the all-important cash pot builds, the player's urge to bluff increases and so tensions between the contestants intensifies.

The game's final showdown involves the remaining two players deciding whether or not they want to share or split the accumulated pot: cue the outrageous bluffing. Or maybe not. It's exactly this uncertainty as to the player's true intentions that gets the viewing public tuning in.

Strip away the fundamental components that give the game show any semblance of credibility and you're left with Golden Balls the videogame. With no actual cash to lend it a sense of peril and no human opponent to try and read or bluff, 'playing' Golden Balls becomes the ultimate exercise in futlility. If you make it through to the final round and both you and your opponent opt to 'steal', then the host, Jasper, imparts some real words of wisdom: "Having got this far, today has been a waste of time".

My thoughts exactly.