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Wii Play collects nine quick and addictive games that are simple to pick up and play and hard to place away. Thanks to the intuitive controls of the Wii Remote, even the most inexperienced gamers will have no distress mastering the controls. Wii Play facial appearance nine break mini-games, counting the following: Shooting Range, a point-and-fire game of target practice in the Duck Hunt tradition. Billiards, a simplified variation of nine-ball with stunningly realistic physics that uses your Wii Remote as your pool cue. Find Mii, in which you scan the crowds to find the right Mii—and Miis you and your friends made make an advent. Tanks!, in which you mandate a toy tank on a miniature front line in a gauntlet of 100 missions. Other games contain Pose Mii, Table Tennis, Fishing, Charge!, and Laser Hockey. Every game facial appearance a multiplayer mode, so you and your friends can compete for the high score or go head to head to see who’s the best. Wii Play comes with a white Wii Remote so that your friends can join in the action. (Nunchuk not included.)
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| Review Date: March 2, 2007 |
| Reviewer: artemicion, MI |
A lot of the reviews for Wii Play are pretty spot on when compared to a fixed Wii game, but I don't reckon it's honest to equate it to a fixed game. When you buy Wii Play, you basically get a remote (worth $40) along with the game, so the dispositive inquiry is whether Wii Play is a worthy $10 game.
I would answer that with a resounding YES. It clearly looks and feels like a technological demo for the Nintendo Wii, but again, it's a $10 game. If you're into minigames of the type you'd play in Mario Party or Wario Ware, Wii Play is your cup of tea. You get 9 mini games:
Shooting Range - basically duck hunt. Everybody likes duck hunt, right? It works surprisingly well with the Wii remote. Both single-player and multi-player are pretty fun.
Find Mii - basically Where's Waldo. There's a mess of Mii's (people) on screen and you have to find a pair that match, or a particular Mii, etc. 2-player mode basically awards points to the first person who finds the Mii. Also fun in single-player and multi-player modes.
Ping Pong - control the paddle with the on-screen wii-mote pointer. Not really that fun, you don't really use any motions like in tennis, you just direct the paddle on-screen to where the ball is. It's really quite similar to the pong/air hockey game.
Pong/Air hockey - similar to Ping Pong in concept, you control your paddle on screen with the wii-mote and try to score the puck into your opponent's goal. Not that fantastic single player, but pretty fun multiplayer since it's a small more frantic than ping pong.
Bubbles - guide shapes into bubbles to pop them. IMO, the worst game of the bunch. It's basically a reflex game, where you take three shapes and try to fit them into slots by directing and rotating with the wii-mote.
Billiards - Pretty fun single player or multiplayer. A ordinary pool game.
Fishing - Similar to the mechanical board game where you try to stick you fishing pole magnet into the fish's mouth. Kinda fun for awhile.
Cow Racing - Pretty fun, shows off how the wii-mote can be used to drive and steer.
Tank - Steer a tank around and lay mines or shoot shells. It probably has the least amount of wii-mote interactivity (you point on screen to aim your shots, that's about it, all else is ordinary console controls). Lots of people seem to like this one, I didn't so much.
Anyways, bottom line is that it's $10. And it's perfectly worth the $10. |
The controller is fantastic! The game... well... yeah.
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| Review Date: June 17, 2007 |
| Reviewer: C. R. Swanson, Phoenix |
I like my Nintendo Wii. I wrote a review about it right after I got it. It's a wonderfully fun small machine! Now that I've got it online, I've downloaded all sorts of stuff, voted in polls and had a commonly grand time! What I lacked was a second controller.
Enter "Wii Play".
Don't buy this game for the game. The game is crap. "Wii Sports" is better and more entertaining and you get that for free. But to make "Wii Sports" even more fun, you need a second player. For that, a second controller is vital. Since you need one anyhow, buy this bundle.
"Wii Play" isn't completely terrible. The cow racing, laser hockey, shooting and pool games are basically fun and provide some dandy two-player action. The others are forgettable.
So in small: don't by this game for the game. Surely don't buy the seprate translation of the game. But since you need another controller, buy this bundle. Get the controller. Spend $[...] on a game you might play for a couple hours.
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If you need a remote, buy this instead
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| Review Date: March 14, 2007 |
| Reviewer: R. Geisler, Virginia |
| It's a $10 game... the people argumentative that it isn't like Wii Sports are expecting a small too much. There's 8 games total, 4 of which are pretty fun and excellent party games. That comes to like 2.50 for a decent game - people spend more than that on their daily coffee. The Find a Wii game is maddenningly addictive, and a fantastic 2+ player game. Tanks is fantastic as well - it would be nice to save and pick up at some of the harder levels rather than going through the first 4-5 levels to get to a excellent challenge, but of well. And the Shooting game is another fantastic 2 player game - it gets pretty frantic with two wiimotes firing away for the highest score. The other games are probably better for a party, but decent either way. If you have 4 wiimotes, don't buy this. If you need or want another wiimote, grab this instead and you'll be pleasantly surprised with some of this microgames, just don't expect another wii sports, or full game, since that's not what they were after. |
Fun games for a new Wii family
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| Review Date: February 16, 2008 |
| Reviewer: K. Gehring, Kentucky, USA |
We just got a Wii a few days ago and wanted to get some more games beyond Wii Sports (which is fun, but we needed some variety). Our main objective was to get some games that our 5-year-ancient could also play instead of just watching while the adults play. I got some input from some online friends and from the reviews here, and plotting that Wii Play might work. Getting a 2nd remote was already a priority, so why not get some games with it?
The games are probably not what honest gamers would prefer, but our family isn't full of honest gamers - we just want to play some simple games and have fun. Wii Play fits the bill - fun for the adults, simple enough for the 5-year-ancient. Her favorites are Fishing and Charge, and after only a few times before a live audience, she's gotten pretty excellent at them.
All in all, Wii Play is a excellent option for Wii owners who have younger kids who also want to play. |
Weird time to release this title
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| Review Date: February 18, 2007 |
| Reviewer: L. Lovell, Georgia |
I find it odd that Nintendo resolute to release this title when they did (nearly 3 months after the release of the Wii). To me these aren't really mini games. Well not all of them. Several of the 9 are truly demos and instructional games to help you know how the Wii remote works. For example, in the manual for the Shooting Range game it says, "This game introduces basic pointing techniques." For each game the manual clarifies what function it serves (i.e. which skill it is going to teach you). Most of the games are very small overall. It's weird that Nintendo would release this long after people with a Wii have gotten used to using the remote, and that they are mission it a real game when it's really not. To me it is a Wii remote that comes with Wii Play and not the other way around.
I suppose this is thorough an extension of Wii Sports, but as you have read in all other reviews it is much simpler. The only similarities are how it starts off. You choose how many players and then which mii(s) you will be before a live audience with. Oh and you can win bronze, silver, and gold medals just like in the training section of Wii Sports.
So I'll break down each game for you and tell you what I reckon. Here they are in the order that you unlock them when first starting up the game.
Shooting Range-- Not terrible. This one isn't really small. I judge there are 5 stages that last for a small while each. It is kinda like Duck Hunt except you don't shoot at just ducks. There are small targets that appear among other things. Irregularly a duck will glide by. It does get pretty challenging at the end. Birds and what not are flying all over the place. I have not tried yet, but you can use two remotes in single player mode. I guess that would make it more fun. The gun shot sound is pretty realstic.
Find Mii-- This game is unquestionably stupid and dull. There are several stages. Most of them involve you finding the two miis that look alike in a small group(in the face, they all have uncommon clothes on) and you must do it before your time runs out. Once you have to pick your own mii out in a crowd. It's just, well like I said already: really stupid, repetitive, and dull, but you have to play it in order to unlock the rest so...
Table Tennis-- This game is really simple. There is no swinging motion like in Wii Sports tennis. You simply point the remote where the ball is and it hits it back for you. It gets ancient really quick. The goal is to return 100 balls. I got bored and lost on function before reaching 100 just so I could go on.
Pose Mii-- I'm embarrased for Nintendo. This game is more intricate than Find Mii, but to me it is more stupid. These small bubbles come perched down with small miis inside of them. Your job is to point the remote at them (which is a mii too) and twist it to match the orientation of the mii inside the bubble then it goes away. You can't let any fall down. There are 3 uncommon mii poses that you scroll through using A and B. When the pose in the bubble changes you must change yours to pop it or whatever. It does get challenging as a lot of bubbles come down with uncommon mii poses at the end. Just die on function so you can go to the next game. (Rumor has it that it doesn't matter how well you do to unlock the next game so long as you have played it.)
Laser Hockey-- This is a 2-D bird's-eye view of an air hockey table. It's called laser I guess since all is in bright neon colors. This game is pretty fun. You go your paddle thing around and try to score more than the computer before time runs out. You can twist the remote to aim the small ball. It can get really quick. It does get ancient after a small bit though.
Billiards-- This is one of the more intricate games. I found it to be entertaining at least for a while. It is small though since you can only play 9-ball. You must point anywhere on the table and hold B to aim. Then point at the cue ball to choose where on the ball to strike. Then hold B and pull back and push foward. It is pretty responsive to how hard you hit the cue ball. The way the balls react is pretty realistic.
Fishing-- It's kind of like fishing with the first rod in Zelda. Sort of. The fish are really dumb looking and are very 2-D. They all look like they are swimming sideways, like a flounder or something. You lower the remote and you can go it around side to side and foward and backward to place it where you want. Jerk it up when you get a nibble. You get a set number of points for infectious uncommon kinds of fish. Pretty dull.
Charge!-- It looks like it will be stupid. It is weird. You are riding on the back of a cow. The point is to knock down as many scarecrows as you can as quickly as doable and make it to the end line. You hold the remote like in Excite Truck. Roll it foward to make the cow run quicker or roll it back to slow down. If you jerk the remote up the cow will jump (there are hurdles in your way). This game is weird but it's kinda fun. The course is small though. The time limit is 90 seconds.
Tanks!-- This is my favorie game and really makes the extra 10 bucks for the remote worth it for me. It is a bird's-eye view of a small front line with small barriers and walls and what not to hide behind. I don't know how many levels there are since I keep dying after like 7 or 8. This game can be pretty hard. The CPU tanks get quick and have quick flying bullets. You can go around with the D-pad or plug in the nunchuck and use the stick. A lays mines and B fires. You can bounce a bullet off of a barrier to hit someone around a corner which is fun. Point the remote where you want to shoot.
Note: I have not played any game in multiplayer, so I don't know about that.
So, the conclusion is: buy this if you need a remote. Tanks!, Laser Hockey, Charge!, and Billiards are all pretty fun. And Shooting Range is OK too. The other games are not. But who cares. Now I can play two-player tennis on Wii Sports, which is why I went out and got this anyway.
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