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Slow pacing, not that fun.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Great idea, neat artwork, but the pace is too slow for parties, and the truth is it's just not that fun.

Not as fun as the board games...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Overall, this would be a good game for a party with a bunch of teens and older who have a Wii. The Wii gamplay does not much factor into the success (and failures) of this game. In fact, for the few cool uses of the Wiimote, there are equally frustratingly hard to learn motions that would make it hard to do this in a large party setting.

My real concern is that the questions are much too adult for most kids to play, but there was no indication of that on the box. For example, one word scramble game gave the hint: "Rotten Music" the answer was "The Sex Pistols" neither my wife, nor extremely musically savvy 9-year old know that Johnny Rotten was a member of the Sex Pistols, and of course my six year old daughter started asking what a Sex Pistol was...

The geography questions are similar: in 60 seconds, find on a hard to manipulate map, Honduras, North Korea and Serbia. Really, fun for everyone? I can do that, but most adults can't, and my kids sure can't.

Looking for Wii gameboard fun? Try Mario Party 8 instead, which is a ton of fun, easy to learn, and has endless gameplay choices. Looking for non-Wii gameboard fun? All the Cranium physical board games are great, and really fun for the whole family. This is a good try, but would benefit from another generation of development.

A Great Party Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this game as a fan of the Cranium series of board games and I found this an absolute blast. It's a game that requires at least two "teams" (I've played with just one other player), so you can't really play it alone, but it makes a great game for parties and competitive friends. The Decoder Mask holds fingerprints easily, but it's nothing a little clorox wipe won't take care of.

Great Party Game! Lots of Laughs!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a great party game! If you enjoy Cranium, this is a must for the Wii. You make two teams and each team takes a turn spinning the wheel and try to complete the challenge. There is a variety of activities from drawing a picture like Pictionary, but you may have to draw with shapes or lines that will disappear. There are musical games where you play the song and your team tries to guess the song, word scrambles, geography and challenges whereby you turn your back to the tv and your team will describe a series of activities you must accomplish with the Wii remote within the time allotment (hammer a nail, comb your hair, mix a cake, brush your teeth, etc). The challenges are short and the game is not too lengthy.

Awful controls and bug

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is a big disapointment compared to the table game.

The awkward controls makes some challenges frustrating.
I couldnt complete the simulating actions one given the little time.
The painting ones would be fun but normal joes wont make it cause it requires a lot of practice.

Also it has a bug. You must reset the wii remotes so you only have 1 remote active. Otherwise it will map some functions on other remotes in games like painting and the wordsearch.

Favorite Wii game so far

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My friends, family, and I love this game. We play with just adults, mix it up with the kids, and the kids play on their own. Everybody gets a kick out of it, and so far, we haven't had repetition with the questions. The one complaint I have is that we seldom land on some of our favorite categories (like Song Pong and the geography one). But in a way, that's good, because it keeps us cheering and livens up the spins.

All ages family fun!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

We rented this game from Blockbuster and did not want to return it! Although designed for team play (minimum four people), my 9-year-old daughter and I had hours of fun playing.

I could not decode the "secret" words unless looking through the red lens. I was so busy watching the drawing (and laughing hysterically) that I didn't even think to try to "cheat."

Some of the mini-games are a bit tricky to figure out, but after a couple full games we could do the "back-turned" acting out games fine.

Great idea poorly implemented

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: January 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Visually pretty and clever audio provides game-show style entertainment for the "contestants". The puzzles are a series of mini-games that are often require one team member to communicate the answer to another team member through pictures, symbols or word substitution in a manner similar to Charades, Pictionary and several other popular traditional games.

However several of the mini-games are poorly executed with clumsy controls that fail to exploit the power of the Wii. The grafitti game in particular is cumbersome to control and with a timer, this makes for frustrated and unhappy children.

Save your pennies and buy a better game like Smarty Pants, or perhaps the original board games from which Kabooki borrows so much.

Great Party Game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a great game to play at a party (teens or adults). We had a new years eve party with 6 couples and had two teams of 6 and had a blast! Some of the wii control moves are a little tricky at first for beginners. If you want a wii game that is social, to play at a party this is the one.

Limited replay value

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: January 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Rent this game before purchasing it.

I believe this game detracts from the Cranium brand's value. Several of the "minigames" are sub par, and the interface is distracting at times.

The goggles could be a neat gimmick, but the implementation of the hidden word makes it somewhat easy for players to cheat.

Also, the minigame that instructs you to act out certain actions with your back turned to the TV is nearly impossible. The Wiimote does not communicate with the sensor bar properly with an adult human directly in its way.. I know it's a bluetooth interface, but it still doesn't work.

2 stars for a few hours of fun, but definitely not worth more than 20 bucks.

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