Carnival Games (Wii)

Carnival Games Wii is a game for the Nintendo Wii that was released in September time in 2008, just in time for Christmas. This is a Party Style Game, (the Nintendo Wii has a lot of Party Games available) that has a range of mini games that are all carnival inspired and also all are set out through a carnival in 5 different areas of a carnival.

To start playing this game, the first thing that you will need is a Mii for each player. Mii’s are basically little characters that you can design (normally to look like yourself) and then are used to identify your personal brain training file that holds your previous scores and tracks your progress. You can win different items for your Mii like clothes and novelty masks by winning different games and beating songs, this is a nice feature as there are secret items and so on that you can collect when you do better in this game.

Game Play
The mini games that are included throughout this game are really entertaining. There are loads ofdifferent games that are divided into 5 areas, these are named below:
• Fortune Way
• Claw Alley
• Love Lane
• Rodent Row
• Lucky Pass

Within these 5 categories you can play a range of different mini games, you play this game to collect tokens and win big prizes such as stuffed animal toys or robots and such like items. The mini games are all carnival style games that involve using a lot of concentration and skill to get high scores in. Here is a list of some of the mini games that this game offers:
Alley Bowl: a bowling type game where you knock down as many pins as possible
Shoot the duck: Where you knock down as many yellow ducks as possible
Hoops: Where you get as many balls in the basket as possible
Ring Toss: a game where you get as many rings onto bottles as you can

These games are great fun and really addictive to play at home by yourself or within a group with your family and friends. I really enjoy the shoot the duck game as its both fun and a bit challenging, we all compete in my house to get the high scores and this adds to the game playability as it gives the game a bit of a competitive feel to it.

The interface on this game is really easy to understand and it does not take long to navigate through to where you want to go in the game from the title screen.

Multiplayer
You can play all the games on Wii Carnival Games on multiplayer, up to 4 players can play at a time to compete for the highest scores and the best prizes and most tickets, the multiplayer functions in this game are great though the only downside is that everyone can’t play at the same time, you each take it on turns, which can get boring some times.

Graphics/Sounds
The graphics on this game are what you would expect from the Nintendo Wii, they are bright colourful and cartoon styled, but I think that this is what attracts Nintendo fans as games are light hearted and fun to play/look at.
The music on this game great, it’s very upbeat and carnival styled, it definitely fits in with the game perfectly.

Price and Availability
I bought this game in HMV for £25 last year, this is a really great price for a Wii game as they are normally much more expensive and also this is just a new game out. You can also buy this game in Game, GameStop, Tesco, Asda, Sainsburys or online, I am sure that these stores also stock the game in around this price or even maybe a bit cheaper.

Overall
This is a great party game and I would recommend it to anyone who loves carnival games or for the family for a nice night in to play games, it is great fun collecting the prizes and tickets and the mini games can be very addictive as you want to practice to get the best score. This game is suitable for all ages and there is no offensive material in it what so ever.

*Also posted on dooyoo under lorrainek858*