Video Game Review - Wii Sports Resort

Though I was annoyed to have to buy yet another twenty dollar accessory for my Wii, I believe that Wii Sports Resort is worth the extra expenditure. The Wii Motion Plus does add much to game play, and the game does include one Wii Motion with it. If you have more than one person who would like to play at a time, you will find yourself having to run out and grab another one, or 2, or 3.

Having said that, Wii Sports Resort does live up to the hype.

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The game is full immersion, or about as close as you can get to it considering that you're a small caricature of yourself.

Wii Sports Resort offers many new mini games, as well as new twists on old ones. There are many games, but some of the newer ones are Basketball, Swordsplay, (a personal favorite of mine; but I was a fencer for several years,) Frisbee, both disc golf and Frisbee Dog, an exercise where you throw a Frisbee to a dog, and you receive points dependent on how close you are to the target. Various water sports, (Canoeing, Power Crusing Sea-doo style, and Wakeboarding) where you trick, jump, or just paddle your way to glory, Archery, cycling... well you get the idea. You basically do not have to leave your house to pretend you have an active lifestyle. If Nintendo keeps this up, I suspect that by 2015 no one will leave their houses and we will all converse over Facebook, Twitter, and Wii Speak.

The old favorites, such as Bowling and Golf make an appearance in this game too, but with the Wii Motion accessory these games are not as easy as they were in the original Wii Sports.

My favorite are the Frisbee games, whereas my kids prefer the Airplane flying exercises. (of course, I think my son just likes running his airplane into the water, where his Mii gets shot out of the airplane as though on an ejector seat.)

This game is for parties, as the game play is easy to pick up on, (though not exactly easy to master) there are many multi-player options, some of which can be played with just one controller for 4 people.

This game awards "stamps" every time you make a noteworthy accomplishment, Wii Fit style. The stamps are dependent on game of course. Some of them are the standard "score this much in one game" on the other hand, others are very specific accomplishments, (lucky skip, a stamp you earn when you skip a Frisbee off of the water and back in to fair play in Frisbee golf comes to mind.)

All and all Wii Sports Resort is a fantastic, very well produced game. I have not yet found a glitch in it, graphically or otherwise. The only major flaw is having to figure out a way to kick my kids off of it so that I can play!