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Thursday 6 March, 2008
Gamelog #2
GAMEPLAY
The second game session was a bit exhausting. Instead of playing with my dad, I played with my older brother. This made things a bit more competitive and less goofy and fun. My arm muscles were tired from swinging the Wii remote around and this was a disadvantage while playing against a fresh, new player who happened to enjoy rubbing in my face how much better he was at everything.
After playing the game for half an hour, we got bored. Baseball and bowling were too difficult for us to play, and we had already exhausted tennis, boxing, and golf. So instead, we spent another half an hour creating different fictional Wii characters. We made a couple of famous people too, like Keanu Reeves, Bill Clinton, etc. Since the game had gotten dull, I guess you could say that the Mii Channel feature (the customized character making feature) made the game a little more interesting. I think that games such as Wii Sports can be easily exhausted because the narrative aspect is so lacking in depth.
DESIGN
My favorite design aspects of this game include the distinct features that differentiate the Wii system from any other video game system created. The Wii remote and the simple game subject as well as game mechanic make the game much more accessible to every age group. Each game also features a standard play mode, a training mode, and multiplayer.
The training mode allows the player to practice each sport alone while the multiplayer mode is to display the newly acquired Wii sporting skills, as exemplified in the game session with my dad. Every game has a single player or two-player mode, and some games allow up to four players through various methods. Bowling and golf allow multiple players to take turns with a single Wii Remote, while tennis requires each player to have their own.
Another feature that I stressed in my gameplay is the customized avatar that can be created using Wii's Mii Channel. Wii Sports is the first Wii title to use this feature. Miis saved on the Wii will appear in the crowd during tennis and boxing games, as bowlers during bowling games, and as team members in baseball. As stated in my gameplay, when the player exhausts the narrative of the game, he/she can turn to the Mii Channel for some temporary entertainment.
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