Yes that’s right folks it’s the classic pricing game on the iPhone. Minus Bob Barker and (cough) Drew Carey. It’s available in the app store for $4.99 from Freemantle Media and Ludia. I first bought this for my PC, before I even knew it was in the app store for iPhone. Which I believe it was released a few months after the PC version. I think this is a very cool way to be able to be a contestant on one of the most popular game shows in history.

It has two different game modes those being: Play Game and Party Game. The party game is basically a multiplayer version. It allows you to select from 2-4 additional players that you pass the iPhone around to each turn. This can be good if you have a group of friends over, but other then that there’s no online multiplayer like through wifi or anything.

You are given a number of avatars to chose from then you can enter your name and everything. After that you are shown a scene where the camera pans across the audience just like in the TV show. Then it’s onto contestant row where you can bid on the item that’s shown off by the price is right models. The best thing if you’ve already played the game through once to the Showcase Showdown you can tap the image to let it “fast forward” and you don’t have to watch it every time. I do this alot now that I’ve had the game for a while. If you lose the bidding war you will recieve a strike (you have three before the game’s over). After striking out once you are taken to a random pricing game if you win or lose this it doesn’t matter you get no strikes. However it’s preferred that you win that way you can unlocked rewards and win “fake” cash.

The pricing games are fun and they make excellent use of the touch screen technology that iPhone has. There are a number of pricing games and as I said before it’s all random which one appears when you win the contestants row round. I think the one I have the most trouble with is “Cliff Hangers” I always guess the wrong damn price and the guy goes off the moutain making me lose. I really don’t have a favorite or best played of the pricing games. The fun aspect is there with each one, but again it’s just the second step in getting to the next goal.

The next goal is the “spin the wheel” round. In this round you must spin the wheel to get a amount the either is equal to or less then $1.00. If you land on the red $1.00 spot you get a bonus spin and $1,000.00 additionally. There are several things that could go wrong with this round.

• #1 you spin first and on both spins you get low numbers that the PC players beat you. This in turn earns you a second strike.
• #2 you get a high score on the first spin and wanna be bold to try for the $1.00. Well you end up going over and the same thing happens in point #1.

There is a good point though if you are the only one left that hasn’t gone over or been defeated you get to the final goal which is the showcase showdown. If you get that third strike either here or in the contestant row no showcase for you!!

Here’s the showcase showdown the ultimate goal in the game. There are several things that I’ve found out about this round first thing that I’ve noticed is the fact that all the “prizes” recycle. So it isn’t hard to guess the amounts on the nose after a few tries. Everyone knows from watching the TV show what happens here. You’re shown a series of prizes and you must be the contestant to correctly guess or be the closest to the retail price without going over. If you come within $250 of your own showcase you with them both. Another little I guess you could call it cheating thing is the fact that you can exit the game right before your are told that you’ve been given a strike and enter back into the game without being affected. I think by doing this the highest monetary score I’ve gotten was over $600,000.00 to bad the stuff aint real!

So in closing out this review I say that the game is pretty cool. It’s not exactly my favorite after I’ve mastered all the challenges. At the same time it is a good game for those Price Is Right fans. Yes I know you’re out there don’t even deny it! After I first played through everything within the confines of the game the one thought that came into my head was Adam Sandler in “Happy Gilmore”…….

“The Price Is Wrong Bitch!”