Wii's potential "bowled" away.
Well not sure how to review this. Not much to the game. If you played the cute version of Bowling that was with the Console then you've done this.
When I seen "Brunswick" first thing I thought was "WOW! This should have realistic physics and controls". Guess not. It has better graphics and physics but horrid controls. No matter what you do you hook left. For those who aren't into bowling as much your bowl ALWAYS spins to the left and misses everything unless you WAY over compensate. So far the only trick that seems to work is bowling left handed and messing around a little and you can "semi" bowl straight balls.
This would be the perfect game if they used the controls like bowling game that came with Wii Sports. This way you for the most part bowl like you really do and not be forced to throw hook shots. This pretty much kills this game.
Controls aside you can choose from quick play or career and have up to four players. Although you can only choose from a limited selection of pre-created people (men and women). And pretty much everthing else in the game is limited to from ball selection, music and even sound. The only thinkg you can "unlock" is new bowling alleys. I think about 10-12 in all (to unlock).
Overall this game would be alot of fun if they had at least fixed the controls. Without that theres really no point in playing. Its just annoying to no end. I returned it after 30 minutes and rented something else. Next in line is AMF Bowling Pinbusters! Lets hope that is better!
***EXTENDED REVIEW***
Well before I returned it I thought I would give Career one more shot since I only played a quick game then quit. Basically Career is where you unlock everything. Think of it as well... a career. You can check stats, level up and buy stuff as you go along competing to be a better bowler! And unlock stuff for "quick" play too as you buy it (and career of course).
So did this improve the game? Well first off since 99.9% of people can't play the game however it was designed to play you'll have to use the "opposite" ball glitch and still bowl with your dominate hand. So if your right handed tell the game your a lefty and still bowl with your right. This does 2 things.
1. Makes the game playable.
2. Makes you you bowl "to good" sometimes. I have got 300 a few times now. But my average is around 250 after about 14 games.
Heres the downside. Even WITH this "glitch" that makes you bowl better the career is SLOWWW and boring! Yes the game is meant to be more real since its Brunswick but just to get to a tournament I had to bowl 8, yes 8 weeks of bowling. Each week you bowl 3 games a week. So before you can even do a tournament you bowl 24 games! Until the tournament you get no prize money either (It says :Prize Money $0, Fee $5). Although somehow I got some. Maybe for high score or something.
After each time you bowl you get to watch the other guy which if you mash the A button to skip his animations takes about 20 seconds each time. Each game took me around 8-15 minutes depending on if I got strikes or spares (and setup time).
Overall.... Assuming you can get the glitch controls down, make it past the grueling bowing to a tourney every few hours and FINALLY unlock a few items at a time this game will take weeks to get everything unlocked. Its pure torture unless you a 100% pure bowling fan with to much time on your hand. Even I being a bowling fan can't take this game. Between the controls and the waiting forever its horrible. Don't bother renting it.