Overall, I’ve been impressed by how much game time our family has put in with Wii Sports. We play on almost a daily basis for a half hour or so before the kids go to bed. However, both my wife and I will regularly sneak in some solo play after the kids go to sleep. I have been having a blast playing the games alone.
The Wiimote controller completely revolutionizes the gameplay. The difficulty of the games feels about perfect for me. If anything I’m wishing some of the sports were a bit easier.
As was mentioned in the family review, each of the five games in the Wii Sports pack is a simple, barebones game. However, there is one game feature that does add some complexity to the set. Each time you put in a good performance in Wii Sports you earn points in that particular sport. Once you accumulate 1,000 points in a sport, you are dubbed a “pro” at that sport. Weak performances lose you points, so weak performances can lose you that pro status. This is a simple feature, but it does increase the motivation to keep playing some of the games. It also is a good way to set the difficulty of the AI opposition to the skill of the gamer: as you accumulate points in a given sport, your opponents get tougher, and the quality of your performance needs to rise in order to be able to keep garnering points.
Next, I’ll take a look at each of the games in turn. Up first, Wii Bowling!
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