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Thursday 21 February, 2008
Gamelog Entry #1
SUMMARY:
Wii Sports is a compilation of different sports games which utilizes the Wii remote's motion sensing capabilities. It includes five different sports: tennis, baseball, bowling, golf, and boxing. The Wii remote acts as a tennis racket, a baseball bat, and a golf club, in their respective sports. It also captures your motion when you roll a bowling ball when you play bowling, and throw a punch when you are boxing.
GAMEPLAY:
The first two games I played were baseball and bowling. I had a lot of fun playing baseball. When I was batting, I held the Wii remote the same way I would hold a baseball bat and swung away. I thought that it was hard to hit the ball at first, but once I got the timing down, I was able to put some hits together. I was a little disappointed with the defense in the game, because it really matters where you hit the ball. For example, a ground ball would almost automatically be an out, and most fly balls that landed where restricted to only doubles. It would also seem random whenever the computer on defense made an error. Pitching was easy and took less effort to execute a good pitch. Playing with a friend was a fun experience but it didn't take long to finish the game and there wasn't that much excitement in the game compared to other baseball games such as MLB 2K7.
Bowling was fun and easy to learn. I played with a friend in this game, and it was very interactive and games were competitive. Strikes and spares were not that hard to figure out and execute. The way I bowled in the game was nothing similar to how I bowled in real life. But it was fun testing out different approaches to bowling the ball.
The characters are 3D but they all look rather funny looking. The graphics take away some of the realism in the game but the gameplay makes up for it I guess. There is a way of leveling up your character, which adds an interesting element to the game. Overall I had fun, and I would play this game again with a group of friends, but I don't think I would take the time to be really good at this game.
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