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Leilosh's Wii Sports (Wii)
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| [February 21, 2008 01:29:20 AM]
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GAMEPLAY
This round of playing, I tried two more of the games: baseball and bowling.
I don’t think baseball was as well designed as it could’ve been. Even though there were two players, only the one playing the batter really had any impact on the score. The pitcher just had to press buttons, and neither of the players had any impact on catching the ball once it entered the field. Each player would then bat until his or her team was out. I felt like the turns were too long and the game felt too slow overall. There wasn’t enough direct player interaction such as their was in tennis. In this way, I felt that the inherited rules of the game were a limitation. But my bias might also come from the fact that I have never been a big baseball fan in general.
Bowling was a little more fun than baseball for me. It took me a while to get the hang of it, but once I did, I was almost flawless. I don’t think I’ve ever gotten such a high score in actual bowling! At first I thought it was too slow, but after a while I had fun working with the precision I needed to get a good turn.
Overall, I think the game is easy to pick up and fun to play, especially with other people, but it is not a game I would get really hooked into. For the Nintendo Wii, it’s a good, simple starter game.
DESIGN
Compared to other modern games, their seems to be somewhat minimal effort put into the design of the game. It has a very bubbly, cartoonish feel which I neither liked nor disliked. It fit the light mood of the game. The characters are incredibly unrealistic, but their meager design proves that what matters is the gameplay itself. The best part of the character design in my opinion is that the player has a lot of control in their individual design. Therefore I could make a character that looked like me (or whatever I wanted to) and become attached to it.
The best part of the graphic desing of the game was the playing fields. Bowling felt like a real bowling alley, especially with other games going on in the background, and the reacting crowds in tennis and baseball were entertaining.
I felt that the transition from real life sport to video game was done pretty well. Their was just enough player control to make the game interesting to play without giving the player so much control that it became difficult.
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| [February 21, 2008 01:29:03 AM]
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SUMMARY
In the game Wii Sports, the player can choose from one of five games which imitate real sports games: Tennis, Baseball, Bowling, Golf, and Boxing. The players can swing the Wii controller to imitate some of the actual movements used for the real life sports. Up to 4 players can play the game.
GAMEPLAY
I had a fun time playing Wii sports today. It’s a very simple game with its background in some of our culture’s most familiar sports. At the same it contains an unfamiliar element because I must play the games using the Wii controller. It seems like one of its main purposes is to show off the Wii controller. Using the controller to play the sports was pretty fun; I didn’t realize that videogaming could involve so much exercise!
The first game we played was Tennis. It took me a few tries to get the hang of it, but afterwards it was really fun. Because Tennis involves several players (in my case two humans and two players that were computer generated) directly interacting with eachother, there is a lot of room for player interaction and variation. This can make a lot of complex gameplay.
The most fun part of Wii sports was probably player interaction. The concept and the rules are simple and the graphics are underdeveloped, but I had a lot of fun just playing with other people. It doesn’t seem like it would be as fun if I was by myself.
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Leilosh's Wii Sports (Wii)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Thursday 21 February, 2008
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