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Zubin's Wii Sports (Wii)
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| [March 21, 2008 05:06:52 PM]
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Gameplay:
For the second forty-five minute session I continued to play against my friends on the Wii. The games after a while start to become a little bland. Some of the games fall victim to being really boring and repetitive. For example, the baseball game is a bore to play. In the multiplayer version of the game, one person is the pitcher while the other is the batter. For the pitcher, all they have to do is throw a change up or slider every single time and they can get a strike or fake out the batter. Without fail, I have seen this go into action almost every single time. When a player is losing to their opponent, they turned up the amount of sliders and changeups in order to even out the playing field.
Other games were pretty fun although. My personal favorite was the bowling game. This was the game that allowed the most users to play simultaneously. The reason this game was fun compared to the drab baseball is that there are many ways to do well in this game. One finds out pretty quickly that there are certain position and amounts of spin one should apply in order to obtain a strike. Even if a strike doesn’t go through, you can still pick up spares and those are sometimes pretty interesting to knockdown.
My friends who weren’t playing the game all brought up an interesting point: saying we looked like losers who needed to get out of the house. Whats even funnier is that Wii suggests doing the same.
Design:
This game is basically the first game that displays the wii remotes capabilities. The game has you mimick the motions of the actual sport in which you are playing, ranging from baseball, bowling to even boxing. The games main dependants of replay ability is its gimmicky controls. The controls aside, the game itself isn’t very fun. There isn’t much depth to it, it seems like the game was quickly designed and thrown together for the sole purpose of showing off the remote. The lack of realism and lack of attention detail makes this game an easily dismissible game. It also prevents the gamers from wanting to keep playing.
The overall feeling of this game is that it is very childish. It just seems that the whole wii system is for the younger demographic, as opposed to ps3 and xbox’s more older male dominated systems. The appeal of the Wii is very general, and therefore extends it out to the casual gamer. Even girlfriends of ours who hate video games were able to get into the game. This game does not offer any rewards structures besides from increasing your “PRO score” which is basically useless and its all in vain.
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| [January 26, 2008 02:19:43 AM]
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Summary:
Wii sports is a multiplayer sports based game that utilizes special controllers to simulate sports-like motions. Included in the game are a variety of sports games ranging from bowling to tennis.
Gameplay:
Well, my younger brother scored a Wii for his birthday today, so I decided to choose the Wii sports game as my classic choice. Naturally, I was stoked that my brother was getting a Wii because I have been pretty interested in how the controllers work. I have had some experience with the Wii, but it was only momentarily at the Wii kiosks at the Valley Fair mall in Steven’s Creek. Nothing feels better than taking a new system out of the box, but it seemed like forever until we set it up on the tv, which for reference is a 42’’ LCD television.
The cool thing about the Wii system is that you can create some pretty accurate cartoony-looking replications of oneself. After my brother and I took some time making our Mii’s, we embarked on playing the only game we had available at the moment, Wii sports.
As far as story and game progression, there is not much to be had here. The games are pretty straightforward and are taken at face value. The games have no underlying consistency, beside the fact that you choose your Mii character in whatever sport you choose. The more games you play, the more points you accumulate for your character, but so far I cant figure out what this does.
The games themselves are pretty fun at first, but I could see them becoming quite boring afer a while. Although we played every game, my favorites were bowling and tennis. The bowling game plays as if you are physically bowling in real life, although in a lot more confined and relax manner. You can move your bowling position, angle your shots and even apply spin to the ball, much in the same ways you would in real life. And even though you throw from the same position with the same speed and style, the outcomes vary, but it is not too difficult to receive strikes. This allows virtually anybody to bowl a strike, which means that people of all gaming intellect can compete in this game.
The Wii Sports game is not a game one can really enjoy by themselves, but instead should be played with a group of friends to fully capture the games spirit. Soon after opening the console, we had some friends come over with their two Wii controllers and thus commenced in 4-way tennis matches. Lets just say that was a pretty interesting thing to watch. What makes this game so fun is the camaraderie of being in a spot together playing a game in which no one person has a real advantage. It was interesting to see our girlfriends battle each other in the baseball game.
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Zubin's Wii Sports (Wii)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Saturday 26 January, 2008
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