Wii sports is a good way to get acquainted with your new Wii console.
I spent more time with Baseball than any other sport on this game. And let me tell ya, this game is fun for a long time. I was able to ignore the awful pitching in the game when my AI oponents were at a low skill level. However, as I got better and my skill level went up, so did my oponents. You see, the better you get at a certain sport the tougher your competition becomes. The game measures skill levels on a chart using numbers. Right now I have a skill level of 1228 [Pro skill level] on baseball and have been stuck around that number quite some time now. The reason being the horrible pitching that I mentioned earlier. All you do is flick the wii-mote and you have the perfect pitch each time. Sounds wonderful right? Wrong. You're not able to switch up your pitches and throw them into a certain zone to try and throw the batter off guard. Instead, you throw the same perfect pitches over and over, and once your AI oponent gets tough they hit the perfect hits over and over and there is nothing you can do about it. I've watched helplessly as the computer hit 8 homeruns in a row and the game was ended due to the horrible mercy rule. If the computer decides that you're losing by too many points, you automatically lose no matter what inning it is, giving you no chance at staging a great comeback. When your oponent isn't busy hitting homeruns they'll it line drives for base hits, and all you can do is helplessly watch your out fielders slowly scurry for the ball. Simply put...you absolutely do or have any control over anything on defense whatsoever. The only thing you have control of on offense is how well you hit the baseball. Hitting the baseball requires good timing and a good swing, and hearing the crack of the bad when you hit a good one is ultimately satisfying. However, you can not control how you run the bases. The computer also decides that for you. If the computer thinks that your hit wouldv'e given your player to run two bases you will get a double. Baseball is fun with the batting part, but the computer pretty much does everything thing else for you. Good for that "non-gaming crowd", but much too simplistic for us all.
Everyone seems to love bowling the most in Wii-Sports. Personally I just don't like it. I guess it's because I admittedly suck at the bowling in this game. Whatever, I'm a kick ass bowler in real life. This is probably the best simulation of an actual sport out of all the sports games on here. It really doesn't have to do much to be realsitic anyways. Just simply throwing your arm in a bowling motion is all there is to it. Of course, you must aim your throws.
Golf really could have been the best sports game on here easily. The big problem is that the motion controls tend to screw up often. By pressing A you make your Mii step up to make his swing. You then simulate the motion of swinging an actual golf club to hit the ball. You're able to choose from several different types golf clubs by using the d-pad. It's easy enough to swing with all your might when you are yards away from the hole, but when you get very close to the hole it becomes extremely hard to putt the golf ball in. Why? Because when you're trying to putt in these baby tap hits, the Wii-mote hardly ever registers your swing as soon as you swing, and how powerful you intended your swing to be. If you're a person who has their sensor bar at the top of their television and want to play golf....then you may have a problem. Boxing is a fun little game. Seems to be everyones least favorite of the bunch, including mine.The matches are too long and again, there are some control sensitivity issues here as well. The game rarely recognizes where you are trying to punch your oponent, or sometimes which hand you are using. The nun-chuck attachment is used in this one by the way. One neat aspect of the game is being able to put the Wii-mote up to your face and move back and forth to guard attacks. Still, the extremely long matches and constant arm flailing will tire and bore you rather quickly. Wii sports is a very crisp looking game graphically. The Miis aren't the most detialed character models in the world. No matter how you design them they still look like a bunch of lego people. There isn't a whole lot of sound here. Just some nice elevator type music every now and then. Still, what little sound is here is still very crisp. The five sports games aren't the only features in this game. If you would like to improve your skills on any of the five sports you may enter training mode to hone your skills. If you want to see how fit you are you can enter Wii-fitness mode. A daily test to see how athletic you are by age. You must complete several challenges to determine how old you are. Your performance is what matters. Wii-Sports is a fun game to come back too, but it's simplicity, which is its strength in some areas, is also its weakness in many.