Since its release for retail purchase in 2006 the Nintendo Wii has enjoyed immense success. One of the key reasons for this is probably that it reaches a wider demographic than the majority of games consoles and can be enjoyed by people of all ages. Wii sports resort, released as a kind of improvement on wii sports was released in july of this year, and is no exception, providing entertainment for people of all ages, and has the potential of being enjoyed by the whole family.
Wii sports is set on a island beach resort, and allows the playing of a number of different games, either as a single player or for up to four players. The game requires an additional device in the form of wii motion plus, which is a more sophisticated sensing device than the regular wii remote, and is able to pick up more complicated and sensitive movements when you are playing. This obviously improves the experience of the game, making it more realistic.
Like wii sports this game can be played in single player mode, and there are more games on offer than in the original wii sports. In my opinion sports resort offers more enjoyment for a single player, than wii sports. It includes a variety of games that become increasingly more difficult as you progress, challenging different opponent at each stage. The many games on offer, twelve in total which include, sword fighting, archery, Canoeing, Cycling,frisbee golf and basketball. My personal favourite is table tennis, which becomes very challenging and enjoyable the further that you progress, although frustrating in equal measure. This is due to the fact that when you loose you are dropped a level or two and need to challenge opponents again that you have already beaten. This can be avoided by restarting the game. Canoeing and cycling are two of the games that are not quite so much fun as the others, and I have literally only attempted these a couple of times.
There are limits to this however, and the game does become rather samey after a while, and many of the games seem very repetitive and boring, especially if you have progressed as far as you can go. Indeed, this game is a lot more enjoyable in multi-player, you can play some games with 2 players and one wii remote by taking it in turns, for example in the bowling game, but one of the most annoying things about this game is that you need to purchase additional motion plus devices for a lot of the multi-player games, which of course, do not come cheap, like everything with the wii, and the remotes need to be calibrated frequently, by placing them on a flat surface.
As long as you remember not to get too involved, and actually make time for playing REAL bowling and table tennis etc, remembering that this is nothing more than an entertaining computer game, there are hours of fun to be had with this for everyone in the family, especially in multi player mode. The wii is definitely one of the most enjoyable an accessible consoles available today, no other console really has the same appeal for playing as a family or a group of friends. The graphics obviously pale into insignificance in comparison to other consoles, but I am not particularly interested in such things anyway. Enjoy!
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Advantages: Many more good events than Wii Sports. Great use of the Motion Plus for realistic control. Disadvantages: Too many filler events; only a couple of sports strong enough to stand up on their own right.
Advantages: easy game play, lots of onine games to download, wireless internet conectivity Disadvantages: not enough storage space (need a lot of 2GB SD cards to store the downloaded games).
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