• Match your answers to over 1,500 surveys.
• Laugh along with host / comedian Louie Anderson.
• Play Solo or Multi-Player
• Create and Customize computer family members and opponents
• Fun and Easy to Play

Discussion
General rule of game case copy: If they need to tell you the game is fun, it's probably not.

Such is the case with Family Feud ¬– it’s an honest attempt and rather decent try at bringing the show to life, but there were a lot of missteps along the way. The overall result is a game that feels cheap and poorly executed.

For those that have never, ever heard of or watched an episode of the game show, here’s a quick rundown. Two families get three chances per opening turn to guess the top answers of questions surveyed to a 100 people. During the Louie years, the game was three normal rounds, one round of triple points, and the fast money round. The fast money round took two winning family members and asked them each 5 questions, with the tallies added up. You needed 200 points to win the big money prize.

That aside, we’ll start with the ‘features’ of the game. You’re allowed to customize a family, except the visuals are terrible, your choices few and bizarre, and the load times kill any wish to keep going after one person is created. You also can’t change the sex of the chosen person. You’re stuck with whatever full house set-up they toss at you. Even worse, the game has a rather racist (if at least universal) approach to the pre-built families. The white family looks like a fashionably aware white trash reunion, and the black family is all heavy-set church going folk. Worse still, the actual models they use are horrendous. All 5 family members share the same 4 animations, and they all do it at the same time. Both male and female have the same standing still breathing animation, so all you see are female chests and torsos moving in and out in synch with each other.

The problem lies buried under one of the most idiotic moves in game planning history. I know WHY they wanted it this way, but it still doesn’t make it right. The reason for the simple models and lack of details are because of the game’s abundant use of full motion video clips featuring Louie Anderson. I’m sure TV execs wanted their front man as much as possible, but when you see the same 5 clips of Louie multiple times in the same game, with no way to skip, the act gets old fast. The PlayStation has to fight the disc just to try and hide the load times between answers and movie clips. What should have been done was use the video for intros and ending clips, but then have an in-game model of Louie to cut back to where needed. This would have freed up some RAM and gotten the pace moving at a better speed.

Sound effects are absolutely scraping the bottom of the clip bin, and there’s little to no music to be heard. While the main game has a decent, if disorganized look to it, the Fast Money round looks like it was hobbled together at the last second.

Sadly, all that leaves are the survey questions. I find it hard to believe that these were real surveys, and instead just hobbled together by the development staff. I say this because of one question in particular. The question that read, “Name something that’s spotted” yielded not a single ‘Owl’ on the board, but “Kid with measles” was the last answer. Really? A spotted owl didn’t make the spotted list? The only saving grace is that a 2 Block Memory Card Save will store surveys so you don’t get repeats as often.

It’s a feature I’ll never need worry about. Survey says this one is done and filed.
 

• Louie Anderson is a pretty well known stand-up comic that was one of many hosts of Family Feud.
   
• If you're a slow typist, you can change the timer settings without penalty in the Options Menus.
   
• The game requires a certain degree of honesty. If you were really playing with extra people, the two who play the Fast Money round would have access to each other's answers unless one left the room.
   
• Even though the board by this time was fully digital, they still animated the answer tiles to flip like they used to in the old days.
   
• Despite that the game asks you for a family name and even descriptors for your kin, Louie never mentions any family by name. They are simply Team 1 and 2, or Family 1 and 2.
   
• There is a minor snag in one of Louie's video clips. As he spins and points, he stops his motion too soon, and you can tell the video cuts too soon to compensate for it.
   
• Be ever vigilante in your typing skills - the game makes no allowances for even simple typos.
   
• The opening movie intro does a poor job at hiding the video overlay. You can clearly tell there's just an image of the host standing there when suddenly the video of him clicks in.
   
• The 'family' on the cover shows better fake emotion than most game show hosts.