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Wii Play with Wii Remote | 
| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
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Rating:  556 reviews
Sales Rank: 8
Platform: Nintendo Wii
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: rvl r rhae
Model: RVLRRHAE
UPC: 045496900083
EAN: 0840356780634
ASIN: B000KRXAGE
Release Date: February 13, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
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| Features:
| | 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 - Miis you and your friends created make an appearance | | | Tanks!, where 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 |
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Product Description
Bundled with a Wii Remote, Wii Play offers a little something for everyone who enjoyed the pick-up-and-play gaming of Wii Sports. 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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 551 more reviews...
 The controller is great! The game... well... yeah. June 17, 2007
C. R. Swanson (Phoenix)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I love my Nintendo Wii. I wrote a review about it right after I got it. It's a wonderfully fun little machine! Now that I've got it online, I've downloaded all sorts of stuff, voted in polls and had a generally grand time! What I lacked was a second controller.
Enter "Wii Play".
Don't buy this game for the game. The game is crap. "Wii Sports" is better and more entertaining and you get that for free. But to make "Wii Sports" even more fun, you need a second player. For that, a second controller is vital. Since you need one anyhow, buy this bundle.
"Wii Play" isn't completely bad. The cow racing, laser hockey, shooting and pool games are basically fun and provide some dandy two-player action. The others are forgettable.
So in short: don't by this game for the game. Certainly don't buy the seprate version of the game. But since you need another controller, buy this bundle. Get the controller. Spend $[...] on a game you might play for a couple hours.
Enjoy!
Review Based on Value March 2, 2007
artemicion (MI)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
A lot of the reviews for Wii Play are pretty spot on when compared to a regular Wii game, but I don't think it's fair to compare it to a regular game. When you buy Wii Play, you basically get a remote (worth $40) along with the game, so the dispositive question is whether Wii Play is a worthy $10 game.
I would answer that with a resounding YES. It clearly looks and feels like a technical demo for the Nintendo Wii, but again, it's a $10 game. If you're into minigames of the type you'd play in Mario Party or Wario Ware, Wii Play is your cup of tea. You get 9 mini games:
Shooting Range - basically duck hunt. Everybody loves duck hunt, right? It works surprisingly well with the Wii remote. Both single-player and multi-player are pretty fun.
Find Mii - basically Where's Waldo. There's a clutter of Mii's (people) on screen and you have to find a pair that match, or a particular Mii, etc. 2-player mode basically awards points to the first person who finds the Mii. Also fun in single-player and multi-player modes.
Ping Pong - control the paddle with the on-screen wii-mote pointer. Not really that fun, you don't actually use any motions like in tennis, you just direct the paddle on-screen to where the ball is. It's actually quite similar to the pong/air hockey game.
Pong/Air hockey - similar to Ping Pong in concept, you control your paddle on screen with the wii-mote and try to score the puck into your opponent's goal. Not that great single player, but pretty fun multiplayer since it's a little more frantic than ping pong.
Bubbles - guide shapes into bubbles to pop them. IMO, the worst game of the bunch. It's basically a reflex game, where you take three shapes and try to fit them into slots by directing and rotating with the wii-mote.
Billiards - Pretty fun single player or multiplayer. A standard pool game.
Fishing - Similar to the mechanical board game where you try to stick you fishing pole magnet into the fish's mouth. Kinda fun for awhile.
Cow Racing - Pretty fun, shows off how the wii-mote can be used to drive and steer.
Tank - Steer a tank around and lay mines or shoot shells. It probably has the least amount of wii-mote interactivity (you point on screen to aim your shots, that's about it, everything else is standard console controls). Lots of people seem to like this one, I didn't so much.
Anyways, bottom line is that it's $10. And it's totally worth the $10.
Really, think about it.... June 17, 2007
Robert A. Juszczyk (Georgetown, KY United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The whole reason you would buy this game is if you were in need of an extra Remote. I mean it's the remote plus a disc with 9 games on it for $50 vs. a remote alone for $40. Of course the games aren't the most amazing thing in the world. Wii Sports, the game you get with the Wii is a much better collection, but this is just something different to add to that.
Wii Sports=5 Stars, Wii Play (the Game)=3 Stars, Wii Play with Remote=5 Stars
That being said, I don't expect to spend nearly as much time with these games as I will with Sports, but the bundle is so worth the buy assuming you'll need another remote and can never have too many fun games that you can just pop in and waste your afternoon with.
Strange time to release this title February 18, 2007
L. Lovell (Georgia)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
I find it odd that Nintendo decided to release this title when they did (almost 3 months after the release of the Wii). To me these aren't really mini games. Well not all of them. Several of the 9 are truly demos and instructional games to help you understand how the Wii remote works. For example, in the manual for the Shooting Range game it says, "This game introduces basic pointing techniques." For each game the manual explains what purpose it serves (i.e. which skill it is going to teach you). Most of the games are very short overall. It's weird that Nintendo would release this long after people with a Wii have gotten used to using the remote, and that they are calling it a real game when it's really not. To me it is a Wii remote that comes with Wii Play and not the other way around.
I suppose this is considered an expansion of Wii Sports, but as you have read in all other reviews it is much simpler. The only similarities are how it starts off. You choose how many players and then which mii(s) you will be playing with. Oh and you can win bronze, silver, and gold medals just like in the training section of Wii Sports.
So I'll break down each game for you and tell you what I think. Here they are in the order that you unlock them when first starting up the game.
Shooting Range-- Not bad. This one isn't really short. I believe there are 5 stages that last for a little while each. It is kinda like Duck Hunt except you don't shoot at just ducks. There are little targets that appear among other things. Occasionally a duck will fly by. It does get pretty challenging at the end. Birds and what not are flying all over the place. I have not tried yet, but you can use two remotes in single player mode. I guess that would make it more fun. The gun shot sound is pretty realstic.
Find Mii-- This game is absolutely stupid and boring. There are several stages. Most of them involve you finding the two miis that look alike in a small group(in the face, they all have different clothes on) and you must do it before your time runs out. Once you have to pick your own mii out in a crowd. It's just, well like I said already: really stupid, repetitive, and boring, but you have to play it in order to unlock the rest so...
Table Tennis-- This game is really simple. There is no swinging motion like in Wii Sports tennis. You simply point the remote where the ball is and it hits it back for you. It gets old really fast. The goal is to return 100 balls. I got bored and lost on purpose before reaching 100 just so I could move on.
Pose Mii-- I'm embarrased for Nintendo. This game is more complicated than Find Mii, but to me it is more stupid. These little bubbles come floating down with little miis inside of them. Your job is to point the remote at them (which is a mii too) and twist it to match the orientation of the mii inside the bubble then it goes away. You can't let any fall down. There are 3 different mii poses that you scroll through using A and B. When the pose in the bubble changes you must change yours to pop it or whatever. It does get challenging as a lot of bubbles come down with different mii poses at the end. Just die on purpose so you can go to the next game. (Apparently it doesn't matter how well you do to unlock the next game so long as you have played it.)
Laser Hockey-- This is a 2-D bird's-eye view of an air hockey table. It's called laser I guess because everything is in bright neon colors. This game is pretty fun. You move your paddle thing around and try to score more than the computer before time runs out. You can twist the remote to aim the little ball. It can get really fast. It does get old after a little bit though.
Billiards-- This is one of the more complicated games. I found it to be entertaining at least for a while. It is short though because you can only play 9-ball. You must point anywhere on the table and hold B to aim. Then point at the cue ball to decide where on the ball to strike. Then hold B and pull back and push foward. It is pretty responsive to how hard you hit the cue ball. The way the balls react is pretty realistic.
Fishing-- It's kind of like fishing with the first rod in Zelda. Sort of. The fish are really dumb looking and are very 2-D. They all look like they are swimming sideways, like a flounder or something. You lower the remote and you can move it around side to side and foward and backward to put it where you want. Jerk it up when you get a nibble. You get a set number of points for catching different kinds of fish. Pretty boring.
Charge!-- It looks like it will be stupid. It is weird. You are riding on the back of a cow. The point is to knock down as many scarecrows as you can as quickly as possible and make it to the finish line. You hold the remote like in Excite Truck. Roll it foward to make the cow run faster or roll it back to slow down. If you jerk the remote up the cow will jump (there are hurdles in your way). This game is weird but it's kinda fun. The course is short though. The time limit is 90 seconds.
Tanks!-- This is my favorie game and really makes the extra 10 bucks for the remote worth it for me. It is a bird's-eye view of a little battlefield with little barriers and walls and what not to hide behind. I don't know how many levels there are because I keep dying after like 7 or 8. This game can be pretty hard. The CPU tanks get fast and have fast flying bullets. You can move around with the D-pad or plug in the nunchuck and use the joystick. A lays mines and B fires. You can bounce a bullet off of a barrier to hit someone around a corner which is fun. Point the remote where you want to shoot.
Note: I have not played any game in multiplayer, so I don't know about that.
So, the conclusion is: buy this if you need a remote. Tanks!, Laser Hockey, Charge!, and Billiards are all pretty fun. And Shooting Range is OK too. The other games are not. But who cares. Now I can play two-player tennis on Wii Sports, which is why I went out and got this anyway.
If you need a remote, buy this instead March 14, 2007
R. Geisler (Virginia)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's a $10 game... the people complaining that it isn't like Wii Sports are expecting a little too much. There's 8 games total, 4 of which are pretty fun and good party games. That comes to like 2.50 for a decent game - people spend more than that on their daily coffee. The Find a Wii game is maddenningly addictive, and a great 2+ player game. Tanks is great as well - it would be nice to save and pick up at some of the harder levels rather than going through the first 4-5 levels to get to a good challenge, but of well. And the Shooting game is another great 2 player game - it gets pretty frantic with two wiimotes firing away for the highest score. The other games are probably better for a party, but decent either way. If you have 4 wiimotes, don't buy this. If you need or want another wiimote, grab this instead and you'll be pleasantly surprised with some of this microgames, just don't expect another wii sports, or full game, because that's not what they were after.
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