Can you hear Miyamoto laughing? "The Nintendo Wii!" So many possibilities! Lets ignore them all!"

User Rating: 2.5 | Carnival Games WII
Just to give you a quick summation of what you're about to read: This game almost ruined my Christmas. I opened it and looked at my well-meaning mother wondering what I did to make her mad. Thank goodness my wife got me Fallout 3.

Sound: The sound is almost authentic to an actual carnival. Which is a very bad thing. Carnies leer at you to attempt to get you to waste your money on their ridiculous games. When your numb enough to click on a nice game of skee ball they give you the irritating, repetitive and loud music designed to make you lose focus and donate to the employee "Miller High Life Fund". After you play and probably lose due to the controls the in game character carnies actually trash talk you. They give you heat based on your poor performance. Congratulations you just paid to get insulted!

Controls: The wii-mote is notorious for being difficult. This game embodies that. You have to remember that carnival games are rigged to assist in your losing. Now add non-responsive controls into the mix. For example: imagine flicking a penny onto a metal plate to win a goldfish. Try to use finesse and you will toss it about to inches in front of your mii and get yourself heckled by the carny. Try to use a little muscle and your going to fling that penny like Nolan Ryan in the all-star game at 100 MPH clean past the target. And of course get heckled by the carny.

Visuals: I was surprised that the visuals here rivaled the PlayStation. Wait....I didn't say PlayStation 3. I said PlayStation. As in PSX. Very very blocky.

Game play: Trying to win a rigged game in a carnival is not easy. Now do so with bad controls, irritating music and no reward. People avoid real live carnival games for these reasons. Why buy it? The games are hard due to the controls. Even harder because carnival games are designed to screw you. It's almost comical: I can take on any challenger in Street Fighter 4. Can't knock over a milk bottle with a baseball to save my life.

Do yourself a big favor and walk away. Just take the $40 you would have spent on this and light it on fire. Same value. Probably will look a little better to.