Quizzes have always been very popular – maybe even a little too popular – since the birth of the Facebook Platform. Whether long or short, educational or horoscopes, these lists of questions have been taken countless times by Facebook users. However, Playfish is hoping to take the social quiz experience to a new level with its just released game Quiztastic.

Quiztastic takes the visual style of a television studio with each quiz being a game show. As with all Playfish titles, the game feels well produced. The visuals are high quality, the sound works well, and the atmosphere feels very much like a game show.

Of course, making a game look good isn’t too difficult. Making the game actually fun is what proves to be a bit more of a challenge. Nevertheless, Quiztastic is, well, a quiz game, so a lot of it is pretty straightforward. Players pick a category to play from, and are presented with a random test on their knowledge of things such as entertainment, culture, history, friends, and more. If you answer enough correctly to score above average, your QI (quiz intelligence), as the game calls it, increases, and if you do poorly, it drops. This is the key in determining your ranking compared to other players…

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