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Wii Sports

All five games offer tremendous replay value, but don't dismiss the training and fitness modes. The training mode amounts to a collection of awesome mini-games, which include hitting a golf ball onto a large bulls-eye, or bowling into a rack of 100 pins! The fitness mode measures you physical skill much like Brain Age (Nintendo DS, 2006) measures your mental skill. A few option menus would have been nice (like the ability to turn off the instant replays), but overall Wii Sports packs a wallop. When playing solo, the games adjust to your skill level, and in terms of multiplayer action, this is the ultimate party starter. Load times are negligible and your progress is saved automatically. If you're thinking about buying a Wii, Wii Sports is all the reason you need.

With those problems out of the way, however, what remains is a very solid gaming experience. Some of the training exercises are flat-out awesome (Bowling: Power Throws come to mind immediately) and are great for quick workouts while actually (theoretically) developing your skills in the game. The word "workout" in that previous sentence is meant literally, by the way; I've built up legitimate sweats during extended Tennis and Boxing sessions, and while I'm definitely no athlete, I'm not grotesquely out of shape either. Perhaps most importantly, Wii Sports is a blast to play with friends and family -- and anyone in the family old enough to swing a baseball bat should be able to enjoy this game. In the end, that is what the Wii is meant to do, and Wii Sports passes that test despite all of its shortcomings.

It's simple yet has a surprising amount of depth, and when played with a group of friends is one of the best multiplayer experiences on the Wii. And it didn't cost you a penny.

Don’t go into Wii Sports expecting complex sports gameplay. This isn’t a yearly rehash of an EA Sports game, it’s an introduction to a new way of playing videogames. Skeptics that were previously unsure of the Wiimote should head straight to this title for a hands-on demonstration of what it can do. For what it is, it’s a fantastic pack-in for an extremely promising console.

Even though Wii Sports is included in the system, we don't want to give it too much leeway because it's free. But, realistically, we can't help but enjoy the fact that we're getting a solid sports experience for nothing. It's definitely more fun in groups and won't have a great deal of longevity, but anyone who doesn't find at least some fun in Wii Sports has a heart of coal. There, I said it.

Mario. Tetris. Mario World. Wii Sports. These are the four games Nintendo has chosen to include with four of their game consoles. In terms of sales and longevity, Wii Sports won’t do for Nintendo Wii what Mario did for the NES. Wii Sports won’t be played by as many people as Tetris. It is, however, a killer, innovative showpiece that will draw in anyone who witnesses all that it can do. Sure, it lacks goals and can be beaten very quickly. But the ultra-responsive technology and high multiplayer replay value are far greater than any other party or sports game collection. Excite Truck is good, but this is the one that should’ve been packed in Wii kiosks all over the country.

Wii Sports made its inaugural debut at E3 2006 when Nintendo President Satoru Iwata, legendary developer Shigeru Miyamoto and PR rock star Reggie took to the stage to play a friendly game of tennis on their new Wii home console. Nintendo had said at the Tokyo Game Show in 2005 what the Wii's remote control could do, leaving it to gamers' imaginations to understand what kinds of games they would be playing this holiday season. With this demo at E3, Nintendo showed to the world the fun of playing tennis in the warmth of your living room using body gestures.

Wii Sports eine Zahl aufzudrücken, ist gar nicht so leicht. Auf der einen Seite lässt der Umfang der einzelnen Sportarten doch arg zu wünschen übrig. Auf der anderen Seite liegt es der Konsole eben „kostenlos“ bei und soll gar nicht viel mehr als eine Tech-Demo sein. Das Wichtigste aber ist: Es macht Lust auf mehr. Ich jedenfalls kann es jetzt kaum erwarten, Mario Tennis, Mario Golf, Mario Baseball - oder vergleichbare Titel - für Wii zu bekommen. Bis dahin verkürzt Wii Sports die Wartezeit doch sehr angenehm.

It's not just "The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess" (review coming up) that's worth buying the new Nintendo Wii console for. With "Wii Sports", which is INCLUDED with the console, BIG 'N' shows that it's capable of letting "everybody", from young to old play a simple but fun game with innovative control! Nintendo redefined gameplay and it's starting to take it very seriously with their new console, the Wii and their very first game, "Wii Sports". Also if you hate to do any sport outside, "Wii sports" will be a nice addition to burn those calories.

Undoubtedly, Wii Sports did start out as "just a tech demo" but the game that'll arrive with your Wii has come a long way since then. It's come far enough, in fact, that were Nintendo to sell this separately for say £20, it would be something akin to a must buy. It may not win any awards for the best looking or sounding game but it's great pure fun, and is instantly accessible to pretty much anyone. We all know roughly how to swing a tennis racket, or bowl a bowling ball - even if we haven't done either before - and the Wii Remote does a great job of recreating the sensations of the real thing by being neither too accurate nor too forgiving, but just right.

Overall, the game really could have been better had they made these full fledged games and jazzed them up a bit. Still, it’s more fun than many of the other sports games I’ve played over the past couple of years and when they decide to make a sequel to this I can only hope it gets better. The sports chosen are all fairly popular, so maybe they can either make them deeper and include some of the more fringe sports (perhaps Curling?) just to keep the game fresh. For now, you don’t have to worry about buying it if you’ve gotten one of the launch systems, but they’re not going to leave it as a pack-in game forever. So, for those of you waiting for a system this is a must have game, so don’t hesitate too long or you’ll have to pay for it.

Wo man bei der Virtual Console mit fehlenden Schnupper-Versionen noch Nachholbedarf hat, macht Nintendo mit der kostenlosen Beilage von Wii Sports alles richtig: Die Minispiel-Sammlung eignet sich hervorragend, um die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten des Controllers eindrucksvoll zu demonstrieren, ohne aber vor lauter Tech-Demo den Spielspaß zu vergessen. Da können die Kulissen mit detailarmen Texturen noch so billig wirken und die groben, nur rudimentär animierten Männchen noch so simpel und grafisch erschreckend über den Bildschirm huschen: Wii Sports macht einfach Spaß und entpuppte sich vor allem im Multiplayer als eines der Highlights im Start-Lineup der Wii-Konsole.

With a few friends, Wii Sports becomes the game it's meant to be. Boxing and Baseball are the only two that do not support four players because of the sport itself. It's a success as an inclusion inside the consoles box, and to get a new owner excited by the possibilities. Still, pick up an extra game to keep you occupied during any single player periods.

Wii Sports' presentation is as simplified as its content, with simple 3D shapes adorned with either pre-generated or customized Wii facial features perched on top of their geometric frames. The game also allows for the use of customized Mii avatars, which further add to the hilarity of the experience. Of course, as has been Nintendo's idiom since embarking upon this path, the graphics are downplayed to the point of obscurity with Wii Sports, and that alone will make this game an acquired taste for some. However, one need only pick up the controller and play a game or two of tennis or bowling to fully realize its charm. This is a simple game about simple fun, and everyone owes it to themselves to try it out to get a taste for what the Wii may in fact have in store for us all very soon.

Wii Sports ist nicht unbedingt als vollwertiges Videospiel zu betrachten, viel mehr ermöglicht es einen umfangreichen Einblick in die verschiedenen Steuerungsmöglichkeiten der Wii-Konsole und bietet zudem auch noch jede Menge Spielspaß für bis zu vier Spieler. Einzig und allein die comic-artige Grafik wird nicht jedermanns Geschmack sein. Für den nächsten Teil wünschen wir uns noch mehr Sportarten, ich für meinen Teil versüße mir bis dahin den Alltag mit ein paar Runden virtuellem Tennis.

Because whatever line Nintendo takes with its promotion of Wii Sports - and everything up to now has positioned it as a sideshow - what it's actually got here brilliantly embodies the Wii's dramatic premise: that this kind of control can appeal to people who don't play games and people who used to play games as well as people who've been playing them for as long as we have. That's not to say that it's all things to all people, or that it's without flaws - but when you get lost in tennis late at night, you can be playing because your opponent's smart, and needs to be forced out of position with varied ground shots, top spin and precisely angled shots; or you can be playing because, golly Michael, come see what Tom's brought home, it's a sort of magical tennis racket. It's more than the parlour game that we all expected, then, but perhaps the beautiful thing is that it still can be that if you want it to.

Wii Sports is at its best in a group setting, where the familiarity that everyone has with these games makes them incredibly easy to pick up and play. It's a game you can play with your friends and family, and it perfectly highlights the direction that Nintendo is taking with the platform. It's not the best-looking game on the system, and it's definitely not the deepest, but it may well be the most fun. You're not forking over any money for Wii Sports, so consider it the best money you won't spend this year.

More fun than a box of ferrets and almost genius, but it feels just a bit too slapdash...

Wii Sports is without a doubt the most sportive game on the market and for some even the only form of movement. That not all games are equally perfect was to be expected, but they're good enough to make this game one hell of a party title. The only thing you still need to do is get that second controller.

Wii Sports macht Spaß, keine Frage. Doch irgendwie habe ich ein wenig mehr erwartet. Da nur wenige Gesten wirklich direkt umgesetzt werden, sind viele Spiele einfache Reflexübungen und nicht so real, wie ich das gern hätte. Solange ich aber mit meinen Freunden Spaß daran habe, ist eigentlich alles okay.

Wii Sports is the first Wii game that uses the Mii, a digital avatar that you can create and customize from the console's Wii Channel interface. These figures, which look a bit like further simplified versions of Playmobil people, populate Wii Sports, and they set the tone for the look of the game. The environments aren't as overtly abstracted, but their look is simple and clean, something that comes across on both standard and progressive scan displays. The sound follows suit with simple, crisp effects, and though it's perhaps not as striking, it does make nice, mostly underplayed use of the Wii Remote's speaker.

But it’s when you boot up multiplayer and have your friends, family and whoever you want join in that Wii Sports transforms from the most straightforward sports game out there to possibly the most fun. The bottom line, really, is that Wii Sports, as a multiplayer game, is downright fun. Whether your thing is tennis, baseball, golf, bowling or boxing, you’re bound to be smiling – at least for a few seconds – while playing Wii Sports. Wii Sports is free, but that doesn’t mean it’s not fun.

Nintendo acerto de lleno en el blanco con el Wiisports, mucha gente quedara enganchada a la consola con hambre de mas y si bien estos juegos tienen un aroma a “Demo técnica” son increíblemente adictivos y totalmente apropiados para realizar nuestra primera aproximación al control de la Wii.

Wii Sports is a successful showpiece for Nintendo's new hardware and a fantastic means to get non-gamers talking about Wii. Not all of the games are spectacular. Given the choice, I'd prefer not to play either boxing or golf, which is disappointing because both sports seem like a fine fit for the remote. But the games that do work really work. Baseball is good in short bursts. Tennis is a lot of fun, especially with two or more. And bowling is fantastic – I can't wait for Nintendo to use these mechanics and release the inevitable (and much deeper) Mario Bowling.

No one expected Wii Sports to be a reason to buy Nintendo's new console all on its own, and it is not. However, it adds a lot of value to a package that would be a good. This glorified tech demo is an excellent game for groups, whether the serious gamers you'd expect from a college dorm or the kids at a family reunion. Take some time out from Twilight Princess and let the virtual console rest for a while to try this game. You may have forgotten that, when Nintendo includes a game with its console, it's something good.

The stand out game for me was Tennis, it’s clearly the best, and received the most publicity. I also really enjoyed the Bowling (getting a 91 pin strike is so cool ). The other games are a nice distraction but didn’t last me very long. Unfortunately that’s the problem with the entire game. It’s fun whilst it lasts but there just wasn’t enough variety to keep me entertained. That said invite some friends round and it’s the first game that gets fired up for some multiplayer action.

Fourni avec la machine, Wii Sports sera votre premier jeu si vous investissez dans une Wii. Il assume parfaitement son statut de distraction et animera avec beaucoup d'efficacité des soirées multijoueurs. Quelques soucis liés aux commandes poseront de petits problèmes mais certains jeux comme le bowling ou le golf s'en tirent suffisamment bien pour que l'on pousse le DVD très régulièrement dans le mange-disques de la console.

It's hard to complain too much about a pack-in game, but it would have been nice if the quality of the sports was a little more consistent. Had this been released as a standalone game it would have been a tough sell, so perhaps Nintendo did the right thing by using Wii Sports as a way to get people accustomed to the new control. But part of me wishes that the games were a little deeper and offered a longer lasting experience. Ultimately Wii Sports is a fun title worth checking out, even if you get bored of it after only a few tries.

Wii Sports might not be the most interesting sports collection of games, but its fun. Whatever features we are missing can be easily forgotten once you start swinging away with the remote. In Wii Sports, innovation and gameplay triumph over substance, graphics, and depth, a feat which only Nintendo could accomplish. Wii Sports is the perfect game for the Wii, swing batter batter, swing.

Wii Sports är inte ett helt lätt spel att sätta ett betyg på. Det kommer trots allt paketerat med konsolen och som sådant är det fantastiskt underhållande. Ska jag däremot jämföra det med andra titlar känns det inte riktigt lika bra. Wii Sports är precis så annorlunda, intuitivt och roligt som det ser ut att vara, men då dess glans har en klar tendens att avta efter bara någon timmes spelande, kan det inte bli någon medalj den här gången.

As a demo that gives a glimpse into the Wii's gaming future, Wii Sports is reassuring, charming, and good, clean fun -- to varying degrees of success, the games demonstrate that the concepts behind the Wii's motion-sensing control are solid, and the integration of the Mii Channel is an amusing touch. As a demo that arguably raises the price of the system itself? Maybe not so much. But that wasn't our choice to make.

I would just like to say that this game came a sparrows fart away from getting 4 stars, unfortunately the blemish of Boxing is what made for the short coming. Still though 3 stars is “Great.”

With the exception of Boxing, which was disappointing almost immediately (aside from the joy of KO’ing an opponent), my first few hours with Wii Sports trying out the different games were some of the most fun I’ve had while gaming in a long time. Each game literally put a smile on my face, which is saying something in today’s gaming world. After the initial euphoria wore off however, I’ve found little reason to come back to most of Wii Sports. It will definitely get some playtime after I finish this review, but I have little reason to play it again for more than short sessions at a time. The lack of a game that truly shows off the capability of the Nunchuk is also pretty disappointing, reducing the overall value of the package even more.