Mountain Sports, Wii

For a Wii sports game that’s targeted for a younger audience, I actually had a bit of fun with most of the games. The controls are pretty easy and straight forward and using the wii balance board, the response to my leans and turns was actually pretty precise. Graphically, it’s nice and smooth and not all choppy and pointed like space camp.
I was able to beat the game and get gold in almost every event in only a few hours maybe less, But I wasn’t sitting there going this is killing me. The different games provided a different experience, especially since I got to try it on the wii board, some of the games were easier with the board then using the wii controller; for example when doing the bobsled game I felt like I was more in control and able to correct my self easier then I would on the controller and doing the biathlon was so much easier with the wii board then the controller.

There are a few games on there that can be frustrating at times. Like the tube racing, sometimes I would have issues turning my guy and once you hit something your guy will go in reverse so you can’t take the track really fast like you would want to. Curling can be a bit frustrating because I found that most of the time when I go to slide the puck my guy would either not slide it, slide it to hard, or slide it too slow because there’s no real indication on how hard you’re going to slide it until it’s already to late.

Multiplayer mode is pretty basic. Each player takes turns doing a round so you could do the whole thing with only one controller but it gives the options of using more then one. Up to 4 people can play. There are 3 modes that you can play and they are Event mode, Create tournament, and select tournament. In event mode you can just play any event you want, Create tournament mode is exactly how it sounds you select a number of events and then you do them in that order, In select tournament mode there are a number of pre-made tournaments all ready to go; each including 3 events. Over all I think it’s a good game for the targeted audience.