THQ's Truth or Lies is a modified version of the popular party staple, Truth or Dare which most of us played as kids and Truth or Lies can supposedly tell how sincere your answers are. If you've never had the privilege of playing the adolescent favourite, Truth or Dare involves either answering a question from your friends or subjecting yourself to a gruesome dare. Sadly, Truth or Lies focuses on the duller version of the game truth or truth, so the entire game is based on asking your friends or family questions.

The game requires the player to use a microphone, you and up to seven other people can take part in two different game modes: Normal and Hot Seat. Before you start you need to calibrate your profile by answering three answers truthfully and three as lies, so the technology can work out the truth from the lies by the tremor in your voice. For some strange reason this is optional! Which of course makes the whole thing redundant.

When you start the game you can choose the categories from either Kids, teens, adults, couples or families. Although the box promises to make you squirm but I found the questions to be all pretty tame and family friendly, probably a good thing in the greater scheme of things. 

To win the game of truth or lies you collect points by answering truthfully the more honest you are the more points you earn, but unfortunately this is where it all falls apart as the technology implemented in the game starts to show cracks and more often than not it doesn’t pick up on the lie in fact it seems to reward the lies over the truth far too often. Before long it soon becomes apparent that lies are the way to go and this leads to some hilariously absurd answers, which offer a limited life span.

The other game mode “the Hot seat” lets your friends pick the questions but as you have already found out at this stage the lie detector is patchy at best so it makes the whole thing a little pointless