Excelent review on Wii Sports here- Wii Sports is a great game, for free!
User Rating: 8.5 | Wii Sports WII
Wii sports could be described as many things. It has so many things to like, and few to dislike. It's likes consist of the fact that it's free, it introduces you to the wii remote (or wiimote), and that it has so many modes. There are five actual sports in all, Golf, Bowling, Tennis, Boxing, and Baseball. There are also two other modes, training, and fitness testing. The training mode takes skills of the different sports (three skills per each sport) and puts them into seperate, simple but fun mini-games. The fitness mode, which can only be taken once per day, per mii, takes three random mini-games and grades you on them, the better you do, the lower your age. Tennis is very simple, the players move for you. However you do have to shift your wiimote to either forhand or backhand and choose weather to swing hard or soft, there is also aim involved, aim is based specificly on the timing in which you hit the ball. Bowling is just like real bowling, hold onto the B button until you would let go of a real bowling ball in your wind-up (back then to the front) you can put extra spin the ball depending on your release, one annoying factor is that that ball always seems to have spin, even if you let go of it straightly. Boxing uses the wiimote and nunchuck extention, just extend your arms out like you really were punching. Unfortunatly for boxing, it seems like a lot of the time your motions are not mimeceked very accurately by your boxer. Baseball is very simple, you swing, and pitch up to 4 different pitches. Fielding and running are completly automatic. The last sport- golf, is probally the most satisfying sport. It has nine holes, with some of them being a bit abnormal, but they added so many things to the golf game! You have to factor in wind, and uphill terrain. There are bunckers, and there's a rough. You can use four clubs (Driver, Iron, Wedge, and Putter). The green reading is incredibly accurate, if there's a small hill, your ball will go slightly down, a big hill, a long ways down. The wiimote does a great job of mimicking your actions. Overall, the game lacks some graphics, and is very simple, but if you get mad that these things happen in the game, just remember how much it cost you. Thats $0.00! It's a great game to play alone, or with up to four friends!
