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10$ game with 40$ remote.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 234 / 240
Date: March 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This rating is based on the theory that this is a 10$ game bundled with a remote. Only worth buying because it comes with remote, other than that, it should be in the 15$ bin. I give this a 5 star fun rating because for 10$ (10$ game +40$ remote), you really get your money worth with multiplayer. I am going to review each mini game and then the game as a whole.

The games:
Shooting: Easily could have just turned this into duckhunt instead of releasing a real duckhunt game later this year. This game is a fun shooter, however the targets (once you played each level a few times) generally appear in the same locations as the previous time you played the level. This game is slightly more fun for a single player competiting for a high score. Playing against a human opponent is more of a battle of who can shoot the targets first, which if you are playing against a new player or some one who is slow with the remote, it's not fun for them. But overall a fun shooter for a single player or 2 skilled players.

Find Mii: This is a really fun game, but only if you have a few miis created on your console. As you progress through the levels it can be very challenging and even though there are only a few objectives, the variety of levels makes the game worth playing. It can be fun for 2 people as well, however you should gain time instead of points in multiplayer. (Single player you gain time instead points) Where you can get to very high levels in single player, (the game only appears to end when you run out of time, I'm not sure if there is a level limit) you can't in multiplayer because you don't gain time. Overall a fun, brain-teasing game.

Pose Mii: The worst game on here. Very boring, repetative, and for the most part: pointless. There are only 3 poses and until higher levels, the Miis are generally standing straight up or slightly angled, so there is not much to do other than move the remote back and forth while bubbles pop. Very boring. It's about the same fun for single and multi.

Ping Pong: This lacks substance but still a decent challenge. I was hoping that you would actually swing the wii mote like a paddle to play this game, but you basically just move it back and forth, it swings for you. As for single player, you just see how many times you can rally against the computer. (no points awarded) Multiplayer is more fun, as you play for points, and can be fun to see how many times you can rally it with eachother as the ball builds speed. Overall fun, but they could have allowed you to actually swing the paddle.

Laser Hockey: This is easily one of the best games on the disc. I prefer the round paddle for added realism and better control. (hold A + B before the start countdown ends) This is a very challenging game and is very fun for multiplayer tournaments. Single player is pretty fun as well but the AI is pretty bad when the puck gets stuck in a corner. Overall a great mutliplayer game, however the puck doesn't move very fast when you "thrust it," instead the puck seems to build speed the more it's rallied off the wall and the opponents paddle.

Cow race: Some what humorous game, but overall not much replayability. Not really a point to playing single player, but can be fun against a human player. Only one course makes this game boring after a few runs, but every once in a while you can have fun with it. The controls are creative and fun when you have a group of people playing.

Fishing: Fun for both single player and multiplayer. Much like the shooting game, fishing for a high score in single player is what holds this game's fun. As for multiplayer, much like shooting again, both players should be evenly skilled, otherwise one player catches all of the fish while the other player gets angry or discouraged. The controls are alright, they could have added some extra features and made it a bit like zelda fishing with the nunchuk reel and what not, but this game is too basic I think to incorperate that. All you really do is hold your rod in a pool of paper fish, and yank to catch when they bite. Overall a fun competition if you have 2 players of equal skill.

Tanks: This is one of the best games on the disc. Single player and multiplayer each hold their own challenge. The levels are the same for both modes, but single player you have lives, and every 5 levels completed, you gain a life. Mutiplayer you work as a team to beat each level while also competing for points by destroying the enemy tanks. (Multiplayer would be way more fun if you got lives like in single player, as the levels are tough and only having one chance before having to start back at level one when you both die at level 17 is very annoying) There are 20 levels to start and then more are unlocked the 2nd time through. (I've heard there are 100 levels) Use the nunchuk to steer if you have serious intentions, as the d-pad only works so long before your thumb feels awkward. Controls are decent and the game overall is extremely fun and challenging for 1 or 2 players.

Billiards: Wii play is worth owning just for this game alone. The physics are quite realistic and the gameplay is nice. Standard 9 ball rules, however to win you are awarded points per ball minus fouls. It would have been better to have whoever sinks the 9 ball legally win, but you can choose to play that way mentally before you start a game and ignore the points in multiplayer. The only problem I have is that I would like to be able to see the ball numbers on the overhead view, instead of having to scroll to each ball to see what ball it is. If you know the standard pool ball colors, I guess it wouldn't matter. Overall very fun competition for multiplayer. It seems like they could have easily included an 8-ball variant as well with this. Oh well.

The game overall:
Before you critique this game harshly, understand that its sole purpose is to demonstrate the wii mote, like wii sports. That is why it's a ten dollar game bundled with a 40 dollar wii mote. This game will probably never be sold without the remote, and if it is, expect it to be much cheaper. I give it 4 stars, becuase for what it actually is, it has a lot of multiplayer fun packed in it, especially with 9 ball, tanks, and air hockey. If it was 50 dollars and did not come with a wii mote, it would be a 2 star game, or nintendo would have included more mini games and more depth. This game has longevity with multiplayer as air hockey tournaments and billiards never get old, much like real life. As for improvements, I feel that this could easily support 4 players like wii sports. Also, many of the single player elements should have been included in multi, like getting extra lives in tanks, gaining time in find mii, etc. Billiards should have included 9-ball and 8-ball.

Pros+
Most of the games are decent
Fun multiplayer with longevity
In reality, it's only 10$
Easy but fun controls
Realistic physics in billiards and air hockey
Challenging games

Cons-
Pose Mii is awful
All games could have supported 4 players
Shooting, fishing, and cow race lack depth
Billiards should have 8-ball as well
Multiplayer modes should have the single player rewards like more lives and time

Conclusion:
This is a great buy if you need another remote, and want to have some multiplayer games in your library. If you already have 4 remotes, I would wait until this game is sold without the remote in the cheap bin before you pick it up. This has multiplayer longevity, but you probably won't find yourself playing this game alone.

EXTREME FUN FOR THE CASUAL GAMER

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 68 / 76
Date: February 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

OK, so I am a casual gamer. That is OK. If you like games that are extremely fun for short bursts, like the original wii sports, you'll like this game. It is great. Most of the games are shallow, and suprisingly the tank-like game is one of the best of the bunch. But what is not to love about a decent representation of target shooting, pool, and ping pong. Come on, how deep do these need to be? Listen, my wife has gamed more in the last few weeks with the wii than she has in the last 6 years without it. That says something. Halo three this isn't. A fun game that is approachable by all of your non-gamer friends for an hour of absolute joy, this is.

A Nice Remote with some Cheap Games

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 17 / 22
Date: May 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Wii Play is a multi-game arcade set along with a free remote. A better way to look at this is that you get a remote along with a free or perhaps cheap game. The games aren't great, but they're certainly not awful!

We had two Wii remotes and wanted a third one, so we could do party multiplayer. We assumed that the games that came with this would let you have more than 2 people playing. Wrong! These are all only two player games. That really seems a shame for a system that is set up to be a party machine.

The games are all rather straightforward and use the basic Wii remote functions. You can do a target shooting where you shoot at targets, ducks, cans, skeet targets and even space aliens. There's a pattern matching game where you try to figure out which Miis are the same or different. In another game, you rotate and change poses of your Miis to match the shape shown. There's a simple ping-pong, a simple table hockey, a simple pool, a cow race, a fishing game, and then tanks.

I had high hopes for many of these games. I love pool, I enjoy target shooting, and even fishing can be great fun. For whatever reason, they just didn't implement any of the games very well. Fishing in Zelda is FAR more fun than this fishing version. Pool is done much better in many other games. Even the target practice isn't varied enough to be interesting.

The only game that really holds our interest for long periods is the tank game. I *love* the tank game. It can be quite challenging, and is fun to play both alone and with others.

Really, you're not paying much at all for this game set. You're getting a nice remote, and you get the games for free. If you've got very young kids, they might be quite happy with racing cows, knocking over scarecrows, and trying to get the very best cow-racing score they can. In that case, you're all set! You paid very little for a game that fits your needs. For most gamers, though, don't get your hopes up too high. If you go in with low expectations, you might be pleasantly surprised with a game that catches your fancy.

Stop hating, just give it a play

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 13 / 15
Date: February 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

OK, we have all heard the negtive reviews for this game and they are just plain silly. If you want more to do, buy Smooth Moves. If you want adventure, buy Twilight Princess. If you want a brand new Wii remote and a nice little set of mini games, then buy Wii Play. I can understand some of the complaints, but to be perfectly honest, I found all of the games in this collection to be at the very least charming. I won't do a play by play of each game here, but the bottom line is this: the game is fun for one player and even more fun for two. I can see putting it down for several weeks and picking it up again to enjoy it once more. Many of the games are simple and intuitive, some are a throwback to the old Atari days and I mean that as a good thing. The billiards game is quite good and probably my favorite. Heck, if you find just one game in here that really grabs you, then it was worth the ten bucks you payed for it. The added bonus is the fact that you finally can get a second Wii remote, something as scarce as the Wii itself. I am very glad to have recieved this game. You should all pick up a copy and Play, Compete, and have some good Fun. It's all about the fun now anyway.

A little fun...but an extra Wii-mote!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: February 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Overview: As others have said - $40 for the Wii-mote and $10 for the game is a reasonable price for what you get here. Frankly, I'm glad WiiSports was the pack-in game - it's infinitely more fun than the collection of demos in WiiPlay.

The Games:
* The Shooting game isn't a bad introduction to pointing and clicking, and is rather challenging.
* Find Mii is cute, using the Miis from your Wii in the game - a nice touch.
* Pose Mii isn't as engaging as Find Mii, I found myself intentionally losing just to move on to the next "game".
* Table Tennis is practically worthless, thankfully Nintendo is releasing a full-fledge ping pong game later on.
* Laser Hockey is a good representation of Air Hockey and is fun both one and two player.
* Tanks is an interesting update on Combat from the Atari 2600.
* Fishing also seems to be a Wii-centric update on a 2600 game, Activision's Fishing Derby. There's no casting involved, just moving the hook to the right place and depth to get the fish you want - not spectacular, but not horrid, might be more fun 2 player.
* Pool is okay, but would've been infinitely better if played by real 9-ball rules.
* One game I've found a lot of fun is Charge!, where you ride a cow though scarecrows and jump over fences. Maybe it's just the control scheme, or the fact that a Cow is involved...I don't know - but it is my favourite.

Recommendation: If you need a WiiMote, go ahead and get this package - it's a good deal for a $10 demo disk and a WiiMote, especially because WiiMotes are hard to find. If you don't need another WiiMote, you probably won't find the demos (and that is all they are, tech demos) worth the $50, so it's not the purchase for you.

A good deal

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: February 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My husband and I bought the Wii Play this evening from Wal-Mart (btw, they had plenty). Overall the nine mini-games are fun, except for ping-pong. It is a failure. Since you do not have a split screen, it is basically impossible to engage in a game similar to tennis (from the wii sports). However, we enjoyed the laser hockey, tanks and pool, so for the price and for the extra remote, this package is worth buying.

Not bad, but only get it if you need another remote.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: February 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Wii Play, as the description states, is a collection of mini-games bundled with another Wii remote control. For only $10 more than a remote on its own, it is a pretty good deal.

The games are simple, and mostly there to instruct the user on ways in which the remote can be used.

1. Shooting Range: Pretty fun, and shows the potential for future "Duck Hunt" style games, but unfortunately is too short. 2 player on this one is pretty fun.
2. Billiards: Cool, but the controls are difficult.
3, Cow Racing (Charge!): Silly, but my 2 year-old son laughs hysterically when me and my wife race against each other, so I guess that's good for $10.
4. PingPong: Too difficult to control acurately.
5. Laser hockey: Boring.
6. Find the Miis: Pretty decent brain-teaser type of game, again more fun with 2 players.
7. Tanks: Fun, in an atari 2600 "Combat" style. (That's not a bad thing... "Combat" was a sweet game, as anyone over age 35 will recall)
8. Fishing: Super lame.
9. Pose Mii: OK. Again, our 2 year-old loves to watch us play it, but otherwise it loses its fun pretty quickly.
All in all, not a bad use of the $10 extra, but if you don't need any more controllers, it isn't worth getting for just the game. You will likely be able to find this game used pretty soon, at a cheap price.

Meh... Only worth it if you want the extra Wiimote

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: February 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This "game" is barely a game at all, it's more of a tutorial on how to use the Wiimote (included) and Nunchuk (not included). In fact, the first time you play through it, that's exactly what it's like... you can only play one game to start, and playing through it unlocks the next game. Each game teaches an additional skill or feature of using the Wiimote, building on the steps before it, until you've unlocked all the games and explored all the various modes of control.

Unfortunately, there's nothing really fun or compelling about any of the games that would make you want to spend any time playing them. There's just so little replay value as to make the game itself practically worthless. At a retail price of $49.99, it's a good thing they include a Wiimote, because the game itself is not worth the $10 difference between this and the cost of just buying a Wiimote by itself. I had hopes that at least a few of the games would be as compelling as the ones in Wii Sports, but no such luck. Billiards had some promise, but in general the gameplay is so shallow it's almost painfully boring to play. The Tanks game might have a little bit of replay value, but not much. Even as a tutorial this game can be a little boring and pointless at times.

Wii Remote with Wii Play instead of vise versa...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: February 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Okay, I think every other review here has made it obvious by now that this game is only worth your money if you're looking to get another Wii Remote. A Wii Remote by itself (and they're still hard to find right now) is $40, so here, you're only paying $10 more for a very mediocre yet sometimes enjoyable game.

Why is it mediocre? Well, there isn't any depth to any of the nine minigames included here. In fact, you'll probably only play most of them only once (like the Find-the-Mii minigame, in which you have to click on the Mii you're using amidst a crowd of other Miis). However, chances are you'll find at least four minigames you really like here which will at least provide you with a few hours of fun. And for ten bucks, can we really ask for much more?

Some of the stronger minigames include: the laser hockey game, which is like a psychedellic update of Pong (it's surprisingly addictive); the billiards game, which features lifelike physics and probably the best controls of all the minigames included here; the table tennis game (ping pong), which is rather difficult, if shallow, and pretty fun once you get the hang of it; and the Tanks! game, in which you use your nunchuck to guide your little toy tank across a 2D board and use the Wii Remote to shoot enemies down before they shoot you.

The shooting target game feels way too short and unfulfilling to be much of any lasting fun; the Pose-Your-Mii game is pretty ridiculous and can go on forever without being amusing at all; and if you have The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, then the included fishing game here is laughable (Twilight Princess features an excellent fishing side-quest, as I'm sure most of you know).

So no, there isn't much to these short little minigames. Most of them are over in a mere few minutes. Yet some of them are decent fun, and you might return to them every now and then. On the same token, most of them aren't worth your time and you probably won't touch them much at all. However, like I mentioned before, this package is really about the included Wii Remote, and the game just serves as a little companion piece. Wii Sports is by far much more fun and has much more depth and replay value, so if you're expecting something along the par of that with this, you'll be sorely disappointed. But if you keep your expectations relatively low, you'll probably find this quick, modest set of nine minigames mildly enjoyable.

For a $10 game, you can't be too harsh. If this game was sold by itself, there's really no way I'd give it anything other than one star; but because it's only ten bucks once you deduct the price of the included, much-coveted Wii Remote, I feel very confident in giving it four stars. If you don't have four Wii Remotes yet, go ahead and pick this one up.

Wii Play is Barely (and I Mean Barely) Worth Your $10.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: February 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The only reason you should pick this up is for the remote. If you liked wii sports, you'll like wii play half as much. Most of the games you'll play once and never come back to. The few that you enjoy are too shallow and repetitive to be played for more than five or ten minutes. Basically, the game portion of this package is barely (and I mean barely) worth your ten bucks. If you want dozens of mindless mini-games that make good use of the wii-mote, try picking up Super Monkey Ball, Rayman Raving Rabbids, or Wario Wares. You'll be getting plenty more gaming fun for your dollar.

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