There are a few things you might be thinking when you see the title Cheggers' Party Quiz, which might include "Why?", "How?" and "Wey hey!" Finally a Cheggers game has come along for his lifelong generations of fans, reminding us of Keith Chegwin's cheeky chappy ways from the flares of the Seventies through the mullets of the Eighties and the shellsuits of the Nineties - even if his 3D game counterpart does resemble Sloth from The Goonies a little! It's not all pop playing, shop swapping superstore Saturday; instead what Cheggers does here is lend not only his masterful Cheg-wit but also his celebrity knowledge of the entertainment world to this party style pub quiz game.

With Cheggers as your virtual host, in a fully rendered 3D animated form, your aim with the aptly named Party Quiz is to get as many of the multiple choice questions right as possible, from common topics such as TV, Music and Film. Questions are reminiscent of a local Sunday night pub quiz, but not just any old quiz, oh no - a pop culture puzzling Cheggers Party Quiz that runs along speedily after each correct or incorrect answer! Options are available to change your player icon and buzzer sounds, ranging from a chicken's cluck to some Cheggers combustible pre-recorded audio.

The questions and answers usually relate to the characters of films, music or TV series and you have to pick the correct actor, musician, director or personality from the entertainment industry. If you feel you need to brush up on your celeb knowledge before playing with friends or family then you can have a bash at the single player mode, while the multi-tap allows up to eight people to play at once; each PS2 controller can be shared by two players, one player using the R1 to buzz in and the face buttons to select the right answer, the other player using L1 and the d-pad. There's even a Dance Mat configuration option, if you feel like something more energetic!

There are eight different rounds in total and if you choose a Long game from the start menu then you'll get the full range of rounds available. The first round is Opening Night, presenting four possible answers before the timer runs out. Then comes Big Break, a very similar round with virtually the same questions but different answers to the previous round. After each round Cheggers takes the screen with his trademark Cheg-wit rundown on how the points are looking and who's in the lead. The sequence continues with Picture Show, a timed round with a portrait picture of a celebrity that's slowly revealed by removing Catchphrase-esque squares, then Star Turn gives the publisher the green light on using Cheggers' address book of celebrity chums for quiz questions and answers. But this time the answers scroll across the screen and you have to buzz the right one before flipping to the next one.

Prime Time is the speed round, where extra points are given for quick buzz-ins, which is really where the game comes into its own in a mass-multiplayer game when points are everything. Round six is Typecast, in essence a clue and answer round, and the quicker the answer is given to the right clue, the more points are awarded. Next up comes Channel Hopping, which is probably the best round of the lot, where you get two chances to answer six topical entertainment questions. The multiplayer in this round is far more fun than in single player, the exception being that you can see what answers everyone else has chosen! Although this is true of all of the rounds, each player in the Channel Hopping round is given another opportunity to select a different answer based on the other player's answers. This is great to see when everyone else in the round changes their answers to match the person they think is most likely to be right, or to differ from the one most likely to not have a clue! Finally there's Final Cut, which is similar to Picture Show except the picture is now text that slowly reveals itself.

One of the major letdowns with this title, in particular within the multiplayer mode, is the no tiebreak round decider. If you and a friend end up with the same score at the end of the Final Cut round then no winner is proclaimed and you just get the end credits with the occasional Cheggers "weh-hey" one-liners. There's also no pause menu once a round has begun, which can be frustrating if the phone rings.

The main appeal here is the multiplayer, for those who purely like to contest their quiz skills against each other, as the low presentation value for each of the menus, which only display at most a few sentences for each question with or followed by a celebrity image, plus the antiquated but apt buzzer sounds that are similar to a bog standard digital television quiz. The music score resembles the looped background music of a cheesy business exhibition or conference hall where you might find Alan Partridge headlining! Nonetheless, it does complement Cheggers and the tone of the game, which as a party quiz game title, does the job.

Cheggers' Party Quiz is an ideal title not just for Cheggers fans, but for those who enjoy quizzes and party games. No better is this demonstrated when in the company of both like-minded Cheggers and quiz fans, where the race to win the quiz or just to see what Cheggers does next in his new 3D form can be enough to keep you playing. Apart from a few eyebrow raising quotes from the man himself that end with "I'm not wearing anything down there," this is great stocking filler quiz fodder for all the family, an almost ideal title that could be just the ticket for a quick bit of casual quiz gaming during the festive season. And besides, if Noel Edmonds gets his own game then so should Cheggers!

Reviewed by Alex Bickley for AceGamez (All Rights Reserved).