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Lightbane's Wii Sports (Wii)
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| [February 20, 2008 11:25:20 PM]
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GAMEPLAY
For the second round of gameplay I decided to play some mini games on Wiisports. My personal favorite is the one based on bowling where the goal is to knock down as many pins as possible, but the catch is that each frame there are more and more pins. We had a lot of fun playing and screaming when one lone pin managed to stay up after all the others fell. We tried the other bowling mini games but they were not fun because they required a lot of spin on the ball and none of us managed to master that.
The next best mini games were based on boxing. The first is dodging tennis balls thrown by a trainer. This was very easy but was funny watching others play if they got into it and moved their bodies with the Miis. The one that my friend was best at was the punching bag. We have come to think that the Wiimote has a way to tell how hard you swing it, and that it is very sensitive. Because in this mini game you have to knockdown as many punching bags as possible and my friend swings the Wiimote so hard that the bags go down twice as fast as I could knock them down.
We went through all the mini games, played some longer than others and most of them are similar to the sport they are based on that they are merely a different way to do the same thing. After playing Wiisports for several hours I turned to my friend and asked his opinion. He told me that after playing it he wants to see what else Nintendo will do to utilize this Wiimote technology.
DESIGN
Lets see is Wiisports innovative, well the idea no…the execution YES! The Wiimote lends itself perfectly to this kind of sports game. I would say the Wii in general is an innovation, and each game coming out on it takes game design further to try and utilize this new style of control. The challenges are when you start to play the mini games. Each one has an objective and a finite end, and based on how well you do you get medals. I have spent many days trying to get gold medals being frustrated asking how is this even possible. The fitness test was also fun, the first time I just did terrible and it said fitness age was 40 something. Of course I had to lower that age so I kept at it until I hit fitness age of 22.
Wiisports is one of the best party games, it brings up to four people together to challenge each other over several different games. Really this game is meant to be played with others and I think that is why it is so popular. It uses games that everybody already knows the rules to. It also helps that it uses the Miis you create on Wii home. The tone is very cartoony and carefree. Nice bright colors and the soundtrack is cheery and repetitive. It doesn’t try to be photo realistic and emphasizes that this Mii avatar is you. You are actually playing bowling not playing a bowling game.
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| [February 20, 2008 11:24:38 PM]
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SUMMARY:
In Wii Sports you play a variety of sports and sport themed mini games. Each game takes advantage of the Wii’s unique controller; some take advantage of the nunchuk attachment. Nintendo added an exercise game in which it runs you through endurance, speed, and hand eye coordination and give you a read out of how fit you are.
GAMEPLAY
My friend and I have been playing bowling and baseball for the past hour and somehow Nintendo made baseball fun. The bowling is very fun you hold the controller just like you would a bowling ball. Then just like in bowling you pull down then swing, you can even give it spin and curve. It was fun because we could actually do well in bowling. I got a score of 216 which was pretty amazing.
After a few games of bowling we decided to play baseball. Now baseball became extremely funny because awhile ago my group of friends and I, we had a contest of who could make the ugliest Mii, so while playing baseball we got a laugh seeing all of those Miis make an appearance. Baseball was fun but like the actual sport got boring very fast. Pitching was easy simply swing the controller as if you were throwing a baseball. My friend reminded me to wear the wrist strap so I would not break his TV. Now hitting was alittle harder. We had trouble first timing to hit the ball then we had trouble not hitting foul balls constantly. Finally when my friend started beating me too badly we switched to tennis.
Tennis is the sport played in almost all the commercials. There is not much to say about it. Swing the controller when the tennis ball comes near your Mii. The only thing I found wrong was that you can’t control where your Mii goes so sometimes they will jump in the wrong direction. We played for awhile but we got bored pretty fast. So we decided to check out boxing.
Boxing if played correctly is the only game that you can consider a workout. This game utilizes the nunchuk attachment for the Wiimote. The Wiimote controls your right hand and the nunchuk controls the left hand. Yes the nunchuk also has movement sensing technology. So my friend and I were standing in his living room hands up ready to box both of us facing the TV. Boxing was great we both actually got tired and there were some nice fights and trash talk during and after. The only thing we couldn’t understand was how many times you can get knocked out before you stay down. There was one game where I knocked him out in 3 knockouts, but then there was a game where it took 5 knockouts before I went down.
All in all, Wiisports is a great game given the fact that it comes free with your Wii.
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Lightbane's Wii Sports (Wii)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Saturday 16 February, 2008
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