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Review: Wii Sports Resort
Format: Wii
Release: 24 July 2009
Rating: 7+
Genre: Mini Games
Developer: Nintendo
Publisher: Nintendo
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Review: Wii Sports Resort
Combined with Wii Motion Plus, Wii Sports Resort is the perfect embodiment of “fun”, packaged onto a disc.
Game Length - As a collection of 12 mini games, you can have endless hours of fun playing on your own or with up to four friends.
Replayability – Ditto! The party never ends.
Technical Aspects (Looks,Sounds,Controls) - The game looks and sounds great, just as the previous one did. Of course, with added Wii Motion Plus support, which is the big thing here, games are far more realistic, so perhaps more skill-based than its predecessor.
Online Capabilities - None to speak of, but really, this is a game for a bunch of people in a single room to play together, it’s all about the interaction.
Value For Money – The game games at £39.99 including a single Wii Motion Plus add on, so you’ll probably want to buy an extra one so that two of you can play properly together. Separately, Wii Motion Plus is £15.99, and it’s so totally worth it.
Remember when the Wii first came out and everyone was playing Wii Sports for like, a month solid? Well now you’ve got the chance to relive it all over again because Wii Sports Resort is out in stores for you to get a hold of, and with added Motion Plus support for your Wii Remote, it’s totally amazing.
I try not to hyperbolise in reviews too much usually, but I’m not sure I’m going to be able to curb it this time round because quite simply Wii Sports resort is an improvement on ever single front to its predecessor.
The most important thing to take into account about WSR is that out of the box you’re going to get Wii Motion Plus. if you’re not sure what it is or what it does, essentially it’s a little add-on that you stick into the end of your Wii Remote controller and it provides precise one to one motion controlls. That means that the mini games which are included are far more realistic in scope and don’t seem as “gamey” as the ones in the original Wii Sports game did.
So, as I mentioned, Resort is similar to its original in that it’s a collection of mini games, 12 this time over the original’s 5, which you can play on your own against the computer, or with friends or family of up to four people at a time over a single Wii. The sports that are included this time are:
- Swordplay
- Wakeboarding
- Frisbee
- Archery
- Basketball
- Table Tennis
- Golf
- Bowling
- Power Cruising
- Canoeing
- Cycling
- Air Sports
The game itself is set on a tropical paradise where your Miis apparently hang out and relax called Wuhu Island. When you first begin the game, you’re made to skydive out of a plane to land safety on the island via parachute. This simple introduction acts as a good little microcosm for what that game is about: simple, intuitive controls leading to a fun time. The introduction acts as a simple tutorial too, showing you how, when you tilt your wii mote up your character will slow down,and how if you move in the direction of another skydiver, you’ll grab hands and swoop down together. It’s pretty awesome, and gives the game more of a context than the first one.
When you land, the game opens up into a more familiar view: a simple and clean menu screen displaying all of the mini games. After a quick scan through, I decided to play the 2 mini games that were returning from the opriginal game: bowling and golf, to see how they compared with the new Wii Motion Plus controls. With bowling, I couldn’t really tell the difference ; it was still, at heart, bowling. It was when I came to golf, that I really saw how different motion Plus makes the game. Essentially, now, every twist of th wrist really makes the difference on the spin of your ball. I learned quite quickly that Motion Plus makes games more realistic, so if you get how golf works, you’ll be better suited to this than someone who doesn’t. That’s not to say you’ll be all crappy if you’ve never played golf. I’ve never played real gold and did just fine. It felt good to compare it from the first game.
I’m not going to go through each and every new mini game, because it would just take for ever, but I will go through the ones that I enjoy the most, which are Table Tennis, Swordplay and Archery.
Table Tennis works in the same way that Tennis did on Wii Sports, you flick your Wii Remote up to serve and then play like you would do for realz. The great thing about it is that table tennis relies on adding spin to the ball to keep it in play, so wii motion plus really comes in handy here, because you need rather accurate tracking to measure the twist in your wrist properly, which is does. Impressive!
Swordplay is another example of the level of depth that Wii Motion Plus adds to the game. The aim of the sport is to hit the other player enough times to knock them over the edge of the raised platform that you’re both on into the sea beneath. You hold the controller as though it’s a samurai sword, with two hands, and you can press the B button on the back to go into a block stance. It’s the most similar to Wii Sports’ Boxing and the sword perfectly follows your hands. It really is great, and makes me long for a lightsaber battle game.
Archery is up there with the other two for me because of its level of realism. For this one you have to plug in the nun chuck, which attaches into the bottom of Wii Motion Plus, and then you hold the remote out straight and bul the wnun chuck back to tighten the string. Before you let go of the “Z” button on the nun chuck, you have to really take into account the direction of the wind and the distance from the target that you. It’s quite technical and requires a very steady hand but the level or realism there is quite remarkable, well, I think so anyway!
So overall, Wii Sports Resort is a really fun game; particularly if you get some friends round and have a few beers… that’s what this sort of game is made for. It’s probably a good thing that it’s a brilliant game at that, so whether you’re into quality games or you just want some fun, you’re definately going to get what you want here.
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