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It's a Wii remote with a pack-in game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 11
Date: February 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Think of it that way. For a $10 premium, you're getting a still-hard-to-find Wii remote, with a collection of games thrown in. Not too shabby. And if only two or three of the games are any good, I'd say it's worth the extra $10.

perfect combo

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The WiiPlay with Wiiremote is an ideal combination. The original system comes with one remote, and with the addition of wiiplay another remote is needed for most of the games. So to get both in one package was indeed the perfect combo. Hats off to the person who thought of offering these products in this way.

If in need of a remote please buy this instead!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Point blank! If you're in the market to pick up a 2nd, 3rd or 4th remote for your Wii system purchase this combo instead. $10 for a hand full of mini games that only two people can share is not such a bad compromise. I simply love billiards and the shooting gallery. These two games are very capable of getting non-gamers to pick them up and have a round with me or my wife, something (in my opinion) the Wii console as a whole was based on.

good for multiplaying

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: June 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

What a work out! Good for the enitre family. Even my 3 year old can bowl and box.
This is usually what we pull out when we have the grandparents come over. They enjoy it too. golf, tennis, etc.

Real Fun!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 30
Date: February 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am a Wii owner and the Wii comes with Wii Sports the game which includes motion activated Tennis, Baseball, Boxing, Golf, Bowling and Fitness Tests. Anyway, Wii Play (Not Yet Released) is like a part two of Wii Sports. So if you enjoyed Wii Sports you might want this. Another advantage is that you get a free bonus controller so you can play two player in all your multiplayer games!!! But rather pricy!!!

Great value bundled with the wii remote.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

At $50 you're getting the wii remote (MSRP $40) as well as the disc with the Wii Play mini games. The mini games are along the same line as the wii sports and include billiards, air hockey, ping pong, and fishing games along with a few others. For the ten bucks, it's really too good to pass up.

Strange time to release this title

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: February 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I find it odd that Nintendo decided to release this title when they did (almost 3 months after the release of the Wii). To me these aren't really mini games. Well not all of them. Several of the 9 are truly demos and instructional games to help you understand how the Wii remote works. For example, in the manual for the Shooting Range game it says, "This game introduces basic pointing techniques." For each game the manual explains what purpose it serves (i.e. which skill it is going to teach you). Most of the games are very short overall. It's weird that Nintendo would release this long after people with a Wii have gotten used to using the remote, and that they are calling it a real game when it's really not. To me it is a Wii remote that comes with Wii Play and not the other way around.

I suppose this is considered an expansion of Wii Sports, but as you have read in all other reviews it is much simpler. The only similarities are how it starts off. You choose how many players and then which mii(s) you will be playing with. Oh and you can win bronze, silver, and gold medals just like in the training section of Wii Sports.

So I'll break down each game for you and tell you what I think. Here they are in the order that you unlock them when first starting up the game.

Shooting Range-- Not bad. This one isn't really short. I believe there are 5 stages that last for a little while each. It is kinda like Duck Hunt except you don't shoot at just ducks. There are little targets that appear among other things. Occasionally a duck will fly by. It does get pretty challenging at the end. Birds and what not are flying all over the place. I have not tried yet, but you can use two remotes in single player mode. I guess that would make it more fun. The gun shot sound is pretty realstic.

Find Mii-- This game is absolutely stupid and boring. There are several stages. Most of them involve you finding the two miis that look alike in a small group(in the face, they all have different clothes on) and you must do it before your time runs out. Once you have to pick your own mii out in a crowd. It's just, well like I said already: really stupid, repetitive, and boring, but you have to play it in order to unlock the rest so...

Table Tennis-- This game is really simple. There is no swinging motion like in Wii Sports tennis. You simply point the remote where the ball is and it hits it back for you. It gets old really fast. The goal is to return 100 balls. I got bored and lost on purpose before reaching 100 just so I could move on.

Pose Mii-- I'm embarrased for Nintendo. This game is more complicated than Find Mii, but to me it is more stupid. These little bubbles come floating down with little miis inside of them. Your job is to point the remote at them (which is a mii too) and twist it to match the orientation of the mii inside the bubble then it goes away. You can't let any fall down. There are 3 different mii poses that you scroll through using A and B. When the pose in the bubble changes you must change yours to pop it or whatever. It does get challenging as a lot of bubbles come down with different mii poses at the end. Just die on purpose so you can go to the next game. (Apparently it doesn't matter how well you do to unlock the next game so long as you have played it.)

Laser Hockey-- This is a 2-D bird's-eye view of an air hockey table. It's called laser I guess because everything is in bright neon colors. This game is pretty fun. You move your paddle thing around and try to score more than the computer before time runs out. You can twist the remote to aim the little ball. It can get really fast. It does get old after a little bit though.

Billiards-- This is one of the more complicated games. I found it to be entertaining at least for a while. It is short though because you can only play 9-ball. You must point anywhere on the table and hold B to aim. Then point at the cue ball to decide where on the ball to strike. Then hold B and pull back and push foward. It is pretty responsive to how hard you hit the cue ball. The way the balls react is pretty realistic.

Fishing-- It's kind of like fishing with the first rod in Zelda. Sort of. The fish are really dumb looking and are very 2-D. They all look like they are swimming sideways, like a flounder or something. You lower the remote and you can move it around side to side and foward and backward to put it where you want. Jerk it up when you get a nibble. You get a set number of points for catching different kinds of fish. Pretty boring.

Charge!-- It looks like it will be stupid. It is weird. You are riding on the back of a cow. The point is to knock down as many scarecrows as you can as quickly as possible and make it to the finish line. You hold the remote like in Excite Truck. Roll it foward to make the cow run faster or roll it back to slow down. If you jerk the remote up the cow will jump (there are hurdles in your way). This game is weird but it's kinda fun. The course is short though. The time limit is 90 seconds.

Tanks!-- This is my favorie game and really makes the extra 10 bucks for the remote worth it for me. It is a bird's-eye view of a little battlefield with little barriers and walls and what not to hide behind. I don't know how many levels there are because I keep dying after like 7 or 8. This game can be pretty hard. The CPU tanks get fast and have fast flying bullets. You can move around with the D-pad or plug in the nunchuck and use the joystick. A lays mines and B fires. You can bounce a bullet off of a barrier to hit someone around a corner which is fun. Point the remote where you want to shoot.

Note: I have not played any game in multiplayer, so I don't know about that.

So, the conclusion is: buy this if you need a remote. Tanks!, Laser Hockey, Charge!, and Billiards are all pretty fun. And Shooting Range is OK too. The other games are not. But who cares. Now I can play two-player tennis on Wii Sports, which is why I went out and got this anyway.

Review Based on Value

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: March 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

A lot of the reviews for Wii Play are pretty spot on when compared to a regular Wii game, but I don't think it's fair to compare it to a regular game. When you buy Wii Play, you basically get a remote (worth $40) along with the game, so the dispositive question is whether Wii Play is a worthy $10 game.

I would answer that with a resounding YES. It clearly looks and feels like a technical demo for the Nintendo Wii, but again, it's a $10 game. If you're into minigames of the type you'd play in Mario Party or Wario Ware, Wii Play is your cup of tea. You get 9 mini games:

Shooting Range - basically duck hunt. Everybody loves duck hunt, right? It works surprisingly well with the Wii remote. Both single-player and multi-player are pretty fun.
Find Mii - basically Where's Waldo. There's a clutter of Mii's (people) on screen and you have to find a pair that match, or a particular Mii, etc. 2-player mode basically awards points to the first person who finds the Mii. Also fun in single-player and multi-player modes.
Ping Pong - control the paddle with the on-screen wii-mote pointer. Not really that fun, you don't actually use any motions like in tennis, you just direct the paddle on-screen to where the ball is. It's actually quite similar to the pong/air hockey game.
Pong/Air hockey - similar to Ping Pong in concept, you control your paddle on screen with the wii-mote and try to score the puck into your opponent's goal. Not that great single player, but pretty fun multiplayer since it's a little more frantic than ping pong.
Bubbles - guide shapes into bubbles to pop them. IMO, the worst game of the bunch. It's basically a reflex game, where you take three shapes and try to fit them into slots by directing and rotating with the wii-mote.
Billiards - Pretty fun single player or multiplayer. A standard pool game.
Fishing - Similar to the mechanical board game where you try to stick you fishing pole magnet into the fish's mouth. Kinda fun for awhile.
Cow Racing - Pretty fun, shows off how the wii-mote can be used to drive and steer.
Tank - Steer a tank around and lay mines or shoot shells. It probably has the least amount of wii-mote interactivity (you point on screen to aim your shots, that's about it, everything else is standard console controls). Lots of people seem to like this one, I didn't so much.

Anyways, bottom line is that it's $10. And it's totally worth the $10.

FUN GAME WII PLAY BEST PRICE AMAZON

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 8
Date: April 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

AMAZON IS GREAT FOR NO TAX FREE SHIPPING OVER $25 ORDERS. I DON'T PLAY THIS GAME, BUT IT'S AWESOME, GO GET THE GAME AND HAVE FUN.

Worth the price

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

It is not such a problem now, but there used to be a time when it was impossible to find a Wii remote. During that period of time is when I bought this game. This game(with remote) is only 5 dollars more then buying just the remote. The games included are kind of silly and won't get as much out of it as wii sports, however much worth the 5 dollars, maybe more.

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