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davidTaylor's Wii Sports (Wii)
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| [February 21, 2008 12:39:16 AM]
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Gameplay:
The next game I played was golf. The controls are pretty simple, and there's no way to deliberately slice or hook the ball. The courses are fairly interesting but the early courses are pretty simple, the truly compelling courses only show up near the end. There are only nine courses total, I wish there were more since I really enjoyed playing the last 3 holes.
Next up was tennis. Tennis was very similar to baseball in that it's pretty shallow. The player doesn't control anything but the tennis racket, so the gameplay simply consists of swinging the wiimote around at the appropriate time in order to hit the ball.
Design:
From a pure gameplay perspective the games present in Wii Sports range from simple to laughably simple. But the action taking place on screen is only part of the experience of Wii Sports. The most enjoyable part of the game is the social aspects of the game. Since the games are so simple they're easily graspable by non-gamers and so they can be easily enjoyed by a whole range of people.
The biggest problem I had with the game is that for a game that's supposed to show off how awesome the Wii is, some of the motion detection can be a bit dodgy at times. For most of the games I didn't find it to be a big problem since boxing, tennis, and baseball all rely on broad movements for the player control. But for golf, a game that requires a bit more precision, there were some major issues. When I was putting especially, occasionally I would make a small gesture with the wiimote that the game would interpret as a very strong swing sending my ball well beyond the hole and ruining my chances of doing well on that round. This happened to me at least twice, so I don't think it was simply a one time fluke. I don't know if these issues were due to poor programming or whether it's a matter of fundamental limitations of the hardware, either way it was very frustrating.
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| [February 21, 2008 12:38:29 AM]
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SUMMARY
Wii Sports is a collection of sports mini games. What it notable about the game is that it makes strong use of the motion controls unique to the Wii. For example, when playing the baseball minigame the player would swing the wiimote like a bat. There are five main modes: golf, baseball, boxing, bowling, and tennis. There are also a variety of sub games where the player takes on specific challenges for one of the sports (for example a golf challenge focuses exclusively on a chipping related task).
GAMEPLAY
The first game I played was baseball. I found it to be fairly uninteresting. The main problem is that there is little to no strategy as a batter since I cannot control any of the runners and bunting is worthless. The only viable strategy is to swing for the fences, and for at least a little while this is reasonably fun. but it quickly gets tiresome. Pitching suffers from much of the lack of strategy that batting did. While a pitcher does have a choice between various types of pitches, thats pretty much it since all the fielding is computer controlled.
The second game I played was boxing. I thought it was cool that they used a combination of wiimote and nunchuck in order to simulate the two fists of the players boxer. The boxing itself is pretty simple and straightforward, but I found it to be reasonably fun. I really don't understand how a KO is decided though, it feels pretty arbitrary to me, though I might just not be paying enough attention.
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davidTaylor's Wii Sports (Wii)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Wednesday 20 February, 2008
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