Advantages: Simple, colourful, amusing Disadvantages: Not much to it
Following successful games such as Brain Training and Big Brain Academy on the DS, Nintendo obviously realised they were onto a winner with their claims of games that can actually help to improve memory and knowledge. Therefore here's a review of Big Brain Academy, Nintendo's first attempt at brain training/memory games on the motion sensing Wii.
Big Brain Academy is an extremely simple game. There's not exactly very much to it and you could easily complete all that the game has to offer within a few minutes. However, the theory behind the game does not involve simply try and completeing the game as fast as possible, but more about continuing to play the games over and overa again in order to try and acheive a higher score.
The main areas of the game are Test and Practice. The Test is quite simple. You take a five part test ...
Advantages: Great show Disadvantages: Only on for a week
It wasn’t so long ago, I was riveted to Fame Academy – watching the gorgeous Malachi Cush, the equally gorgeous Sinead Quinn and the rather naughty-but-sexy Ainslie Henderson. That time, David Sneddon won and had a number one single not long after. Sinead and Ainslie have since had top five singles and Malachi’s album is due out this month.
Now, however, we have a new style programme gracing our screens nightly for a week – Celebrity Fame Academy. Similar format, same staff, but with celebs. This time, it’s all for Comic Relief. People phone in to vote for their favourites, which raises money for charity. In the same way as Celebrity Big Brother did last year, this gives us celebs as you have never seen them before, a whole lotta laughs and one damn good piece of telly!
The celebrities taking part are ...
Advantages: Enjoyable, addictive Disadvantages: Not one for the more hardcore gamer
Big Brain Academy is the second title in Nintendo's brain game series. You can test your brain power in five different categories: thinking, memorization, computation, analysis, and identification.
Some of the games included are comparing stacks of coins to find the higher value and quickly counting a huge stack of books. Each exercise takes less than a minute to complete so it's the sort of game you can pick up and play if you have a few minutes to kill. After you take the quiz, you'll get the weight of your brain, your best areas and the areas you need to work on.
Overall the games are good because they don't only rely on mathematics but require a variety of skills and an all round intelligence is required to gain a good overall score. These sorts of games have come under fire a bit recently as being for casual gamers, but as ...
