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Wednesday 20 February, 2008
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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