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One of our favorites!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My kids ages 9, 11, and 14 LOVE this game. It took them awhile to master the wii controller during it, but once they did, they have been playing it ever since. They love to battle the monsters at the end of each level. My husband and I also enjoy playing along.

Controls should have been great but are absolutely terrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am a big fan of Super Monkey Ball 1 & 2. I even liked the GBA game. I expected great things from the Wii version of this game. I slid the game into the Wii and started it up. I immediately went into the main game and went to play. According to the instructional screen I was to hold the wiimote parallel to my arm's direction (like a DVD remote) and tilt it. I tried the game this way. Its TERRIBLE. This kind of precision work needs both hands on the wiimote, holding it horizontally - like a traditional gamepad. This is how it is held in the WiiPlay cow racing game. I played a few levels through and went out to change the control scheme to horizontal. To my shock & horror, there was no way to change the control scheme. You're stuck in one handed mode! This is insane! How could Sega have allowed this to happen? They have to realize a game like this requires precision, and as such, the needs of their gamers will vary. Why couldn't they offer alternate controls?

Disgusted, I went back into the game to give it another chance. I nearly threw the remote through my TV after 10 or so "fallout"s.

The mini games are garbage. Don't bother. I should also mention something about how painful the music is, but in fairness its not so much worse than the other games. This is not to be taken as a positive. The music was always horrific, and its definitely worse here. Its just not so bad when compared to the control faults.

worst mini-games ever!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

this game has some of the worst mini-games I've ever played. some get so frustrating that I wanted to take the game out of my Wii and chuck it across the room, and I've never wanted to do that with any game ever! and I've been playing for over 20 years!

the regular game isn't that bad though, and might be worth it to some.

My kid's favorite game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My girls are 11 and 13. They love this game. It's a challenge to get the ball through the different courses. The game also has mini games which you can play with two people. They enjoy using those with their friends. At first this seems challenging, but once you get the hang of it it's fun. They have tried this game for the DS and don't like it very much. The ball is hard to control on the DS and the screen is small. On the Wii the way you control the ball is just perfect and really makes use of the special control of the Wii.

50 mini games worth 20 alone, though not more

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

here's my list about the game & about the controls more importantly:
most games have only 1 or 3 levels, only rare few have 5, only about 12? use the nunchuck, you can choose left or right handed.

Super Monkey Ball (MB) 50 mini games -
(almost all games require steady hand as most only want small movements or you will totally lose control/aiming ability):
Alien Attack (hovercraft, very hard to control, cute), Asteroid Crash (shooter, addicting, over too fast), Banana Catch (over sensitive control), Banana Thief (cute arcade, difficulty registering my jumps), Bug Balance (balance, small movements only, cute), Dangerous Route (like marble madness, top view track, skill), Disk Golf (Frisbee/golf, fun, but aiming is erratic), Fish Catcher (spear underwater, cool), Free Throw (basketball 5 baskets far away view, cute/easy), Frog Ball (horrendous aiming control), Fruit Basket (little issue registering middle basket, otherwise easy/boring), Hammer Throw (like M&S Olympics cute/fun), High Wire Act (very sensitive controls, boring/simple), Home Run Derby (like Wii baseball batting practice, good controls, addicting), Hovercraft Battle (same control, bumper cars style), Hovercraft Race (same control hovercraft but get flags), Hurdle Race (like M&S Olympics, addicting/fun, too short), Jigsaw Puzzle (cute, turning pieces can be a pain), Jump Rope (simple/cute/easy), Keepy up (bounce MB on bat like Arkanoid, addicting), Monkey Bowling (oversensitive controls, frustrating), Monkey Boxing (great first person feel, very cute), Monkey Darts (decent control, cute), Monkey Fencing (just like M&S Olympics in looks/control), Monkey Golf (too broken to bother), Monkey Race (just like Mario kart w/items), Monkey Snowboard (snowman obstacles, fun/simple), Monkey Squash (more like racquetball, camera is behind both players which isn't as fun), Monkey Target (land right spot, boring), Monkey Wars (awesome FPS like laser tag), MonkeySmith (hit metal right direction, simple/boring, last set broken), Numbers (click on randomly moving billiard balls in # order or random, brain age style, fun/addicting), Paper Sumo Fighter (use remote to push, hard to aim), Paraglider (land correctly, hard controls, boring), Racing Birds (through rings, great graphics, fun), Red light-Green light (move like M&S Olympics, simple/cute), Ring Toss (simple/cute), Rock-Paper-Scissors Attack (cute idea /helmet & hammer after win/loss, very fast play, hard to see hands), Scoop the Goldfish (boring, hard to control), Seesaw Ball (balance seesaws to drop MB to ground, cute, fun), Shepherd (control dog to herd sheep into barn, oversensitive, boring), Simon Says (w/2 flags, addicting, brain age style), Sling Shot (fling MB, great controls, fun), Space Monkey Attack (Galaga style, fun, easy), Spaceship Landing (boring), Treasure Submarine (arcade, fun idea, hard to control), Trombone (guitar hero style, way oversensitive controls), UFO Capture (cute, tiny movements), Whack-a-Mole (fun, though sensitive control), Yacht Sailing (hard to turn, but good graphics & watch out for sharks, cute)

Great Games: asteroid crash, home run derby, hurdle race, keepy up, monkey boxing, monkey darts, monkey race, monkey snowboard, monkey wars, numbers, racing birds, seesaw ball, simon says, sling shot, space monkey attack, treasure submarine, ufo capture, whack-a-mole

Ok Games: bug balance, dangerous route, disk golf, fish catcher, free throw, jigsaw puzzle, jump rope, monkey squash, red light-green light, ring toss, rock-paper-scissors attack, yacht sailing

you can get a total in-depth word documnet from GameFAQs from knuckles_sonic8 who did a great job & is more honest which games are really broken/issues & which just require skill/steady hand. tells you everything, name, description, fun factor, game style, how many players, nunchuck needed, advice for better score/how to play, problems/issues w/the game & how to avoid them if can be avoided.

Best Game I have played for Wii so far

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is straight up awesome. The Main game is so addicting, fun and incredibly frustrating. As the levels get harder you just want to scream when your little monkey ball goes tumbling off the edge. Anyway looks great and is plays even better. The wii remote makes this game sweet, definitly one of the best uses of the wii controller yet.

Also the 50 mini games are pretty good. There are some really fun ones and some stupid ones. Racing is fun, boxing is cool, and a load of others. But then "Shepard" is totally lame and so are few others...

Overall I think that if you own a wii you need to go buy this game.

Total Disappointment

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought the Wii version of Monkey Ball because the Game Cube version was always a game our entire family enjoyed playing together. Imagine our disappointment to find that the main game is only a one player game, so we can't play it together. The main game is ok, but not that much of an improvement over the previous versions.

Like other reviewers have said, the mini games are very hard to control. The adults and the kids became very frustrated playing these games. I'm not talking about preschoolers; I have two 11-year-old boys that can play most video games in their sleep.

This is NOT worth the big price tag. Don't waste your money like I did.

Great Idea, Controls are TERRIBLE

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Whoever was in charge of making sure the controls worked and could be learned easily by non-Wii players failed so miserably on this game that they should be sentenced to death. In single player, they Wii remote does roughly what you think it should do. It's a little mushy but for the most part is acceptable. Party Mode on the other hand is almost unplayable because the controls are so bad. Besides not informing the players of what the controls are before each mini game, I have not found a game where the controls are intuitive or it is easy to control my character. I played with a bunch of my friends and after about 45 minutes of playing various games, they all considered this game a joke because of how difficult it was to do simple tasks like move their player around on the screen.
Overall, this game had so much potential but fell short it letting the player control the game accurately. I'd say don't buy this game.

Great Games..

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I also am a huge monkey ball fan and also own them all and this one is just as good as not better than the others.. game play is awsome with the new control system and as for the old target game.. their are a few target games on this one.. if you dont like monkey target then try paraglider for a much harder and funner game. This games has so many games that are fun with friends of all ages.. snowboarding, a few racing, disk golf, free throw, hovercraft battle, boxer, bowling, fencing, sling shot, and so many more.. [..]

Not what I expected

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

We've played all of the Monkey Ball games and this is by far our least favorite. The Wii system is incredible, and the new control (by tilting the Wii Remote) is great... However, I found that the "Main Game" (where you roll the monkey in a ball over the course) is not as easy as it was in previous versions. The 1st "world" is easy, the 2nd gets a bit tougher, but by the 3rd the younger members of your family will find it too frustrating and may want to turn it off. Having challenge in a game is good, however, too much challenge, especially for a game that younger gamers are hoping to play, is a negative. Monkey Ball has always been geared to be a "family" game where everyone can play and have a good time, but this one fails the younger members of the family by becoming too tough too soon.

This one does add "Boss" characters that you must defeat at the end of each world, which is a nice addition. You must use your Monkey Ball to hit the "Boss" in a vulnerable place on their body. (Each Boss is different)

There are 50 party games included on this disc. Many of them are old favorites from previous Monkey Ball games such as Monkey Target, Monkey Race, & Monkey Bowling. However, I also found these to be a dissapointment because many of the games are ridiculous to play (the controls are complicated & difficult to master) and not all that entertaining.

It just wasn't what I was hoping it to be.

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