$49.99
Wii Play with Wii Remote
Platform:  Wii
Category: Action
Grab your Wii Remote and prepare yourself for Play-time fun! Bundled with a Wii Remote, Wii Play offers a little something for everyone who enjoyed the pick-up-and-play gaming of Wii Sports. Wii Play is made up of nine games that will test the physical and mental reflexes of players of all ages. Whether you pick up the Wii Remote to play the shooting gallery that harkens back to the days of Duck Hunt or use it to find matching Miis, a world of fun is in your hands!

In addition to the shooting gallery and Mii-matching game, Wii play offers billiards, air hockey, tank battles, table tennis rally, Mii poses and a cow-riding race.

  • Wii Play collects nine quick and addictive games that are easy to pick up and play and hard to put away. Thanks to the intuitive controls of the Wii Remote, even the most inexperienced gamers will have no trouble mastering the controls.
  • Wii Play features nine separate mini-games, including the following:
    • Shooting Range, a point-and-fire game of target practice in the Duck Hunt tradition.
    • Billiards, a simplified variation of nine-ball with stunningly realistic physics that uses your Wii Remote as your pool cue.
    • Find Mii, in which you scan the crowds to find the right Mii-and Miis you and your friends created make an appearance.
    • Tanks!, in which you command a toy tank on a miniature battlefield in a gauntlet of 100 missions.
    • Other games include Pose Mii, Table Tennis, Fishing, Charge!, and Laser Hockey.
  • Every game features a multiplayer mode, so you and your friends can compete for the high score or go head to head to see who's the best.
  • Wii Play comes with a white Wii Remote so that your friends can join in the action. (Nunchuk not included.)
Submitted by dschommer on Wed, 04/04/2007 - 1:37pm.

Wii Play offers gamers the next edition of the "Wii" game series that utilizes the Mii's. This is a collection of mini-games that comes with a "free controller."

Free? Okay, the controller comes with a USD $9.99 game! :)

Wii Play isn't exactly as big in detail as the Wii Sports title but it does follow the same theme and add a unique variety of games to the table.

With both Wii Play and Wii Sports you get a full use out of the Wii controller scheme along with hours of entertainment in mini-games.

Would this game stand alone as a $49.99 title? No, definitely not, but if you're in the market for another Wii controller (and who isn't?) picking this up with an additional nunchuck isn't a bad option either.

There are nine mini-games, you probably won't fall in love with all of them. Some nine-ball pool helps me relax after a long day of work, but I'd not spend too much time playing Find Mii (a wheres waldo style game). It's just not my style.

I do love Tanks!, a mini-game that mimics that of the Atari 2600's COMBAT style tank gaming. I found it works best if you utilize the Nunchuck on this mini-game along with the wii controller (even though Wii Play doesn't come with a nunchuck I had a spare to play two-player Tanks!). You move your tank around with a friend or by yourself trying to take out all the tanks in the level.

The levels grow in difficulty and a good progression so you won't find yourself frustrated. However, losing requires you to start back at the beginning again like a true arcade style game.

I didn't find ping-pong (table tennis) nearly as fun as Wii Tennis but some of my friends enjoy it a great deal. It's just not my style game, requiring me to move the wii controller left and right to return the ball but offering very little creative shots (ala Rockstar table tennis) so I lost interest fast.

Lazer Hockey is another fun one, as is racing cows against friends. Out of all the game titles, you're bound to find a few you like and a few you shy away from - that's normal.

Overall, a great addition to the Wii mini-game library and it will be a hit with friends and family. Considering it sports an additional Wii controller it's not a bad deal for the money.