Summer Sports Paradise Island – Nintendo Wii
- 7 Games
- Intuitive Wii Remote Controls
- Challenge your friends to seven different Summer Sports – Basketball, Croquet, Lawn Darts, Badminton, Volleyball, Horse Shoes, and nine uniquely-themed Mini-Golf holes
- With distinct motions for bumps, sets and spikes in Volleyball, forehand and backhand swings in Badminton, and a completely unique Wii Remote gesture for Basketball, Summer Sports is deeper than other sports compilations, yet every bit as accessible
Check into the Paradise Island Resort and explore the vast array of recreational activities in a lush tropical environment. Compete against friends in a collection of summer-themed games including Basketball, Croquet, Lawn Darts, Badminton, Volleyball, Horse Shoes, and Mini-Golf. Bump, set, spike, throw, putt, shoot, swing, and more – all with intuitive Wii Remote gestures.
List Price: $ 19.99
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Another example of horrible Wii shovelware,
Right when we started playing the poor quality of the menus and navigation were a warning of the bad gameplay that was to come. We started with basketball (a game of HORSE) but there were no indicators of aiming or how hard you needed to ‘throw’ the ball. It seemed like it was completely random. Next was horseshoes, which suffered from the same problems. We tried two more minigames before immediately taking it back to the store for a refund which, surprisingly, we got.
This game is horrible. Nintendo would do well to at least require some minimal level of quality screening before they allow game developers to use their branding.
Please don’t buy this.
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|Disappointment,
Volleyball is similarly boring, and also features bizarre design oversights like servers that appear to miss the ball completely, yet still send it over the net. In most, if not all of the games, one gets precious little sense that what you do with the Wii Remote makes that much difference in your success. Forget the curve balls in bowling, placed shots in tennis, stroke control in golf, etc., that you are used to with the excellent Wii Sports package.
The interface is somewhat cumbersome, and ridiculously long transitions during game play detract from the action (for example, between every point in Badminton you must watch the players saunter to their positions, then enjoy a full blue screen with the game logo, and finally return to the court, where you now have to press A before serving!).
The overall sense one gets with this package is that insufficient development funds were allocated for the project, leaving the consumer with a game that feels like it hit the market a year or two before the far superior Wii Sports.
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|Don’t Buy This GAME,
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