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dawndawn's Wii Sports (Wii)
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| [February 21, 2008 01:07:43 AM]
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Game log #2
Game play:
The next hour of game play was different because my friend had to go home, so I played Wii Sports by myself. The game had gone from friendly rivalry, to extreme solo standard play mode. I mainly played bowling, because it was a bit challenging in the sense that I don’t have a good sense of angles, so, I could never get all the pins. Training mode really helped changed my poor wii bowling skills, and I really appreciated that aspect of the game.
Wii Boxing was definitely a workout. I used not only the wiimote, but the nunchuck as well. Although this sport was more physically draining than the others, it was still comparable to the other sports in difficulty, fun, and design.
Design:
Wii Sports really paid attention to defining aspects, rules and structures of classic sports. The tennis court, for example, was correctly positioned in terms of where the doubles lines where, net placement, and avatar placement. This attentiveness to paralleling reality with the game world really made the game easier to get into, and understand.
The “mii” characters, which were not in play, were incorporated into the game play really well as audience members in the tennis stands, to team members in baseball. This incorporation, I believe, makes the player feel more connected to the game, because a sense of a support group is induced.
Another aspect of design, that really differentiates the wii, itself, not only in Wii Sports, but also in other games, is the wireless remote technology used with the wiimote and the nunchuck. The use of motion by the player and it’s parallel on the screen, is a new technological development in design that attracts gamers, and brings gaming out of this “zombie like” perception, into a more physically active perception.
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| [February 21, 2008 12:07:08 AM]
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Game log #1
Summary:
Wii Sports presents the player with classic sports such as tennis, baseball, bowling, golf and boxing. The player uses the ingenious wireless wiimote and nunchunk attachment to parallel motions on screen with tangible movements in the real world. Each game features a standard play mode, training mode, and multiple player options.
Game play:
Wii Sports grabbed my attention wholly when it had a mode for creating a "mii" because I'm a sucker for personalization. Making your own "mii" was so funny, because all the options you can choose from when creating your character are so cartoonish, but, if chosen properly, can actually resemble people's facial charactersitics and body type well. My friend and I spent like half an hour doing this, adding and subtracting different noses, lips, mustaches, etc.
We then started to play Wii Tennis, which was fun for me, mainly because I play tennis in real life, and was happy to see that you could put top spin on a ball to confuse the opponent. The only thing that bugged me was the fact that i couldn't control which direction my mii was going, and my back hand didn't slice as well as real life. All in all, the first hour of gameplay was fun, and I beat my friend at doubles.
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dawndawn's Wii Sports (Wii)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Wednesday 20 February, 2008
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