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Not good

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 74
Date: January 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is like most Wii games, terrible. Such a waste of $50. I would highly suggest renting games or reviewing them extensively on objective websites. Impulse buys with Wii games have yet to do me right.

expecting more

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 36
Date: January 29, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was expecting more eximent from this game. I read the reviews and they praised on how good of a game this is. Ive seen way better games.

Winter Sports

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 20
Date: February 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

We are fairly new to gaming. We really like Wii Sports as well as race games for Playstation like Crash Cart Nitro. Wii Winter Sports is very difficult to use. It does not seem to respond well to the controllers. I would not recommend this game to novice gamers.

Boring

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 14
Date: March 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was really disappointed in the quality of this game after reading the reviews. I expected more. The controls are hard to get down. You get the feeling that nothing you do affects what happens. I'm really having a hard time finding good Wii games beyond Wii Sports and Wii Play!

A Complete and Total Flop

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: June 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The Wii belongs to my Wife. I'm an Xbox/Playstation kinda guy.

My wife likes games that are easy to understand, not too challenging, easy to play/win and fun enough to keep her interested for 45 minutes to an hour, at which point she usually gets distracted by something else.

Me, I can play games for hours. I want a game that's difficult, challenging, and unique. I like games that make me think, and challenges me to find new ways to complete tasks.

NEITHER of us liked Winter Sports on the Wii. The controls are completely senseless, and have no relation to the task at hand, spare possibility the luge/skeleton/bobsled games which require nothing more than tilting a controller to keep the craft centered on the track. The controls for speed skating made no sense whatsoever, and the curling controls were, in a word, stupid. The controls for ice skating were so frustrating that we only played it once! They simply had you jerking on the Wii controller and nunchuk attachment when icons for the two controllers reach a circle at the bottom of the screen. The problem was, we could never get the controller to read accurately, and felt like there was a literal 1/10th second gap of opportunity to register the movement. Very, very frustrating.

The other various subgames give you instructions on how to control the sport, but no indication of how to reach success in the game. For example, it took a few passes down the bobsled track before we realized that you wanted to aim your craft for these light-colored strips impossed in the ice while a "success bar" would fill at the bottom, indication successful completion of each turn. If we had been instructed in this method before our first time down the track, it probably wouldn't have been so frustrating.

The graphics look nice until you realize that there's little intelligence behind it. During a two-player, speed-skating challenge, I pressed the Ready button, and both character figures on my split screen took a launch stance at the starting line. My wife had not pressed the Ready button yet, and so both of the character figures on her split screen were still stretching.

I love the winter olympics. I love winter sports. But this game isn't worth it's value in melted plastic. I'd have more fun falling repeatedly on my butt on an ice rink then playing this game for any length of time.

Save your money. Buy something else.

Disappointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: May 24, 2008
Author: Amazon User

We had high hopes for this game, but the bobsled/luge is WAY too easy and the skiing is WAY too difficult. For bobsled, all you do is tilt the controller one way or another, and it's very simple to stay in the line that they display for you. For skiing, it's not too bad, but unless you're extremely patient and want to practice a lot, it's difficult to see any improvement in the short-term.

Wow! it is bad...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I so wanted for this game to be good. I just couldn't sit and play it more than once. The controls are horrible. If you want to be frustrated this is the game for you. Graphics...um, bad. The game had so much potential but it just did not deliver. Pass on this one.

Wii controller does not work properly with this game. Very frustrating. Waste of time.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: July 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Wii controller does not work properly with this game. For example, in Alpine Skiing, I can't accurately steer in the direction I want. It's very frustrating. It's a huge waste of time.

The music and the graphic are okay.
I regret buying it. I should have rented it. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games is much better in terms of good controlling, better graphic, and more fun.

No staying power

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 30
Date: January 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Game had potential, but has no lasting entertainment value. Will not come out of the cover often now that Christmas is over.

It's ok....

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 12
Date: March 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I agree with the reviewers that were disappointed after reading some of the other reviews on here. While some of the graphics / controls are pretty good, there's really not that much to keep your attention for very long. The downhill skiing is lots of fun, but even that will wear on you after a while. I can't really figure out when to "lean" vs. "turn" in the 4-man bobsled/2-woman bobsled/skeleton/luge (essentially the same thing, but I seem to be better at some than others, for some reason, presumably because you need to lean in some, where others you can just turn, as I've been doing). Similarly the ski-jumping (both regular and big-hill) are pretty cool, but I find little guidance in how to land properly, other than not having crashed after the fact. What you've basically got in the skiing & luge game are rudimentary driving games, but with fewer graphics.

Definitely worth a rental, because it does afford some fun for a while, but unfortunately it quickly loses its appeal. Before you spend the money, it's worth checking out a "professional" review on this one -- I found them to be more extensive and spot on. Unfortunately, I didn't read them until after I read reviews here and bought it.

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