Hasbro Family Game Night 2 includes videogame versions of Connect 4, Jenga, Pictureka, Bop It, and Operation. The basic rules of these games will be familiar to anyone who has played the real-life version. There are a few different modes to choose from for each game, which sets it apart from the real-life counterparts. For example, you can play Classic Connect 4, or you can play Connect 4X4 Remix, which adds a second rack of chips and several special powerups like a shower chips or exploding chips. Operation Remix adds some bonus mini-games like a germ-zapping game and an oxygen-administering game (shake the Wii-mote to administer more oxygen). As for the Jenga Remix, it will be very familiar to anyone who has played
Boom Blox. In fact, if you've already played that game, consider yourself spoiled, as you probably won't find this Jenga game compares in terms of fun.
Pictureka and Bop It are the other two games in this compilation. Bop It was one of the least enjoyable games in this package for me. It's a simple "Simon Says" type of game where you have to repeat a sequence of actions with the Wii-mote. It's kind of difficult to remember all the motions and button presses for all the actions, and then repeat them in memorized sequence on top of that. Pictureka was a bit more enjoyable, but still very simple in concept. You'll be given shapes or pictures to find, or you may have to find something more abstract like "objects with power cords" or something that makes a certain noise.
Playing all the different games will earn you trophies and accessories for Mr. Potato Head. You actually win a fair amount of these trophies and accessories by performing "losing" actions. For example, one reward is obtained by losing your multiplier in the Game Show mode.
You can either play these games individually or you can enter into the Family Game Show mode which will put together a non-stop series of challenges from all the games. You'll need at least one extra player to enter into this mode, but if you're playing solo, you can play a similar mode called High Score Mania. Honestly, although you can play a CPU opponent in any of the individual games, these are games that are simply more fun with a human player. Although you can play individually for trophies and high scores, these games get old pretty quick, even with all their new bells and whistles.