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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: 2nd Edition

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Second Edition is the second game based on the hit TV gameshow. You have to answer fifteen questions, slowly going up to the one million mark. If you have trouble, there are three…

30 20 June 2000

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: 2nd Edition is a quiz/trivia developed by Hothouse Creations, released 20 June 2000 on Wii, PlayStation 2, PlayStation and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: 2nd Edition is

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: 2nd Edition is a quiz/trivia game developed by Hothouse Creations and released in 2000. It was published by Buena Vista Interactive. It is available on Wii, PlayStation 2, PlayStation and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Second Edition is the second game based on the hit TV gameshow. You have to answer fifteen questions, slowly going up to the one million mark. If you have trouble, there are three lifeline you can use to help you: Phone a friend, 50/50 and ask the audience.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are educational. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire series

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: 2nd Edition is the second of 43 entries we hold in the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire series. It arrived 7 months after Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. The next entry was Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Sports Edition in 2000. Its critic score of 30 is 10 points below the series average of 40. The highest-rated entry is Who Wants to Be a Millionaire at 60.

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How it was received

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: 2nd Edition holds a critic score of 30 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 116 rated quiz/trivia games in our database, which average 64. Games released in 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 42 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: 2nd Edition launched on 20 June 2000, within three weeks of Diablo II, Deus Ex, Final Fantasy IX and Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Diablo II, Deus Ex, Final Fantasy IX, Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition.

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When did Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: 2nd Edition come out?
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: 2nd Edition was released on 20 June 2000 for Wii, PlayStation 2, PlayStation and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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