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Wii Play (includes Wiimote controller) (Wii) | 
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| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
List Price: £49.99
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Rating:  76 reviews
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: Action Games
Rating: Parental Guidance
Media: Video Game
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0.4 x 0.4 x 0.4
MPN: 2120140
UPC: 045496362195
EAN: 0045496890117
ASIN: B000INYT0G
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: INCLUDES WII REMOTE + GAME , In Stock Now , Order before 3pm for Same Day despatch by Royal Mail First Class post , Worldwide shipping by Airmail also available
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| Features:
| • | Mini-game compilation | | • | Play an updated version of the NES classic, Duck Hunt | | • | Table Tennis, Laser Hockey, Wii Billiards, Fishing game, Wii Pose. Find Mii game | | • | Includes Wiimote control controller |
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Amazon.co.uk Review:
In a nutshell:
If you want as gentle an introduction as possible to the world of Wii then this user-friendly compilation of mini-games is just the thing for you, with a collection of games that are as easy to play as they are fun.The lowdown:
It might be easy to use but the Wii is still a pretty unusual beast and a bit of a culture shock from the overly complex controllers of other consoles. This compilation of mini-games aims to ease you in gently with simple to play games that only need the Wii Remote to enjoy. These include games of table tennis, air hockey (or Laser Hockey as the game would have it) and an updated of NES classic Duck Hunt. There's also Wii Billiards, a fishing sim and a number of games which use your customised Mii Channel character, including Wii Pose and the Where's Wally style Find Mii. Since many of these games have a multiplayer mode the game also comes bundled with an extra Remote (but not a nunchuck), which usually sells for 29.99 separately. Most exciting moment:
Although all of the games are fun the best one is probably the Duck Hunt update (which also has you shooting UFOs and other non-avian enemies). Perhaps what's most exciting about it is that it proves how good other light gun franchises, such as Virtua Cop and Time Crisis would be on the Wii. Since you ask:
Many of the mini-games included with Wii Play, such as Duck Hunt and Table Tennis, were first seen as technical demos at the E3 trade conference in May 2006, when the Wii was first revealed in playable form. The bottom line:
The beginner's guide to Wii, with a handy extra controller. - HARRISON DENT
Product Description
No matter what your gaming experience Nintendo has just the game for you to play with your friends and family. Wii Play consists of a selection of nine very different mini-games on one game, which are designed to help you master the unique Wii Remote, whilst also providing hours of entertainment. To ensure you can enjoy Wii Play with your friends, the game comes bundled with a free Wii Remote. Wii Play consists of a variety of quirky games that can be played either alone or with a friend. This includes Shooting Range, which is the first game unlocked and is reminiscent of the classic Duck Hunt (released on the NES). In order to unlock the next game the player simply needs to complete the previous one (this sequence continues throughout). When all of the games have been unlocked players can start earning medals for their performance. Find Mii involves picking the right face out of a crowd in an environment that constantly changes - it?s a race against the clock and each other! Pose Mii requires players to make their Mii characters fit into the shapes in the Wii bubbles. To do this they must swing the remote to the right angle to make it fit inside. The psychedelic colours and quirky graphics involved in this puzzle make it instantly addictive. Other games included are Charge, where players have to hold onto a rampaging bull and try not to fall off! Players steer their bull and make it jump by moving the Wii Remote in the right direction, attempting to knock over scarecrows on the way. Tanks, which also makes use of the Nunchuk controller, tests a player?s strategic skills encouraging them to leave trails of mines for other tanks to stumble across. Wii Play also features faithful recreations of real sport games demanding precision and skill with the Wii Remote. In Table Tennis players hold the Wii Remote like a bat and use it to move their on-screen character?s hand and return balls. In Fishing players cast their line with similar moves as
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| Customer Reviews:
 Wii-Played! November 18, 2006
Mrs. L. E. Leggatt (England)
64 out of 70 found this review helpful
My son played this at the Nintendo roadshow in Brighton, and while he was playing I felt compelled to pick up and have a go!, These games are very simple and can be quickly grasped with much ease, I managed to beat him on the fishing game (screenshot 4) first time! Highly reccomended this Christmas!
 Not a bad package December 5, 2006
Gary Hilton (Lancashire)
37 out of 42 found this review helpful
I have had the luxury of playing this game a few days ahead of it's official release! Wii Play, which will retail for around 35 with a Wii remote included, is aimed squarely at the new audience. When you consider that a remote alone will cost 30, Wii Play is essentially a 5 game and it delivers nine pint sized mini-games that aim to bring fun to the whole family. Playable alone or with another player, each game utilises the remote only and boils gameplay down to the very depths of simplicity. It needn't matter whether the player is five or eighty years old, as anyone can play these games.
First on the list is Shooting Range, which plays exactly as it sounds and is very much reminiscent of light-gun games such as Duck Hunt. Using the remote to point at the screen, you shoot at a variety of targets for points and are rewarded with a medal based upon the number of points you gain. As with many of the Wii Play games it's considerably more fun when playing against someone, but there's no real depth and even complete novices will tire of it fairly quickly.
Slightly more challenging is Find Mii, which is the gaming equivalent of 'Where's Wally?'. Here, Nintendo uses the Mii character system to generate a host of challenges where you need to pick the odd one out, or pairs, or your own Mii from an ever growing crowd of other Miis. You play against the clock which starts on thirty seconds, and each time you're successful a few more seconds are added to keep you going. Once you run out of time it's 'game over' and you're given a score based on how many rounds you passed.
The third game in the compilation is Table Tennis, but surely this should be called Pong? The similarities are certainly there but it's subtlety different because, unlike its venerable forefather, the aim of the game is to keep to ball in play rather than getting it past your opponent. You simply move the remote left or right to move your paddle in toward the ball, which will automatically be returned. For a while, this can prove mildly addictive in a "don't drop the ball" kind of way, but once again the lack of depth tells very quickly. One does wonder why there couldn't have been more than one mode to this game, with one allowing for a points scoring game against the AI or a friend.
Pose Mii has to be one of the stranger concepts in Wii Play, though not quite the strangest. In this game you have to match your Mii's pose to the pose depicted in falling bubbles. There are three poses in all, and you switch between them by pressing A and B on the remote. This game actually does a better job than most of demonstrating the abilities of the remote, requiring you to twist and rotate to get the right angle to match the pose. As the pace builds up it can get quite complicated, but it's quite good fun too.
Laser Hockey, derived from the old fair ground favourite Air Hockey, is another game that actually works quite well, simply because Air Hockey is a really fun game in real life. It also makes good use of the remote, allowing players to apply angle onto their shots. It's very fast paced, sometimes manic, and is good fun when played against a friend or member of the family.
The real stand-out game, however, is Billiards, which actually has some depth and shows that snooker/pool games could find Wii to be a perfect format. The basic control requires you to swing back and then push through with the Remote, just like you do in real life, and you can also adjust direction and impart spin by changing where you strike on the cue ball. The physics involved are basic but quite realistic, and there's a real sense of achievement when you manage to drop the cue ball where you want it. If anything it's somewhat wasted on the Wii Play compilation and might have been better off as part of the Wii Sports package.
No mini-game compilation would be complete without a fishing game, and Wii Play doesn't disappoint. Control is as simple and intuitive as ever, requiring you to flick forward to cast your rod and flick back when you've got a nibble. It's fun for a about five minutes, but there's simply no depth to it whatsoever.
Much the same can be said of Charge, a truly bizarre racing game where you ride a cow around a track, jumping over barriers and running over scarecrows. The controls are quite a good introduction to the popular racing configuration of holding the remote horizontally to steer your, erm, cow around the corners, and flicking the controller upward makes it jump. What is it about cows that makes them so comical?
The final game in this little compilation is Tanks, and it's probably the worst of the bunch. On paper it seems like a good idea, with you controlling your tank on an overhead viewed map using the D-Pad (or analogue stick if you attach a nunchuck) and aiming with the remote. Unlike all the other games, however, it just doesn't have any real charm and the presentation is particularly dull, dominated as it is by khaki coloured browns and beige blocks.
Reviewing Wii Play was never going to be a simple task, and by ordinary standards there's simply nothing here - except Billiards - that offers anything worthy of more than a few minutes play. As an introduction to the Wii and its unique control scheme it just about works, but beyond that there's very little here to get excited about. Because it comes bundled with a Wii remote it's not a bad package, and certainly worth picking up if you're after a second controller.
Good fun. September 4, 2007
Babygirl (Kent, England.)
35 out of 36 found this review helpful
So far the main good point that people have reviewed about this game seems to be that you get an extra remote, that's obviously good and is actually one of the reasons my boyfriend brought it for me. However, I also find most of the games extremely good fun! There are 9 games altogether and I love shooting range, find mii, table tennis, pose mii, laser hockey (just like air hockey that you play in arcades) and charge. Its great playing in 2 player mode and on your own is a great way to get better and learn how to win. The only games I don't really like are billiards because I'm rubbish at it, lol, and fishing because I find it hard to control the rod, it always seems to come out of the water and if you move it too much, even when you don't think you're moving it too much, it shoots over to the opposite side of the pond. Apart from these, it's a great set of games to get you used to controlling the remote and getting used to the wii in general. If you're new to the wii I definitely recommend this as being one of the 1st games you try out (along with wii sports), saying that I'd recommend it even if you've had your wii for ages and just fancy a collection of fun games to play on it.
Great controller with tutorial games September 18, 2007
Matthew Mella (Oxford)
33 out of 35 found this review helpful
So, you need an extra controller for your Wii, and you can buy it on its own, or for a fiver extra with Wii Play. You already have one Wiimote so you know the score there, but where does that extra money go? Wii Play is a collection of ninr small tutorial games, similar in style to Wii Sports, that are designed to help you hone your wiimote sharp-shooting/twisting/tilting/waving skills. Although some of the games are a bit dull, there's certainly about half like Billiards, the "Duck Hunt" style game, a 2d tank game and a spot of cow-riding that will draw you back for a quick 20 minute play every so often. The two-player support makes this a great companion to Wii Sports, and certainly extends the life of the product. Not particularly long, in-depth or nice looking, the game is fun nontheless gives you another taste of what the Wiimote can do and is worth the modest amount on top of the Wiimote as priced on its own.
Wii Play isn't a game you would buy by itself but as it came with a include controller it's definately worth looking at. February 19, 2007
Alastair (Edinburgh, Scotland)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
Wii play is very similar to Wii sport, it's more of a non-sport version of Wii Sport.
It can only do 2 player at the most and is compatible with Mii's. It comes with a Table Tennis Game, which was a little disappointing as in the single player it's just rallys however you can only rally up to 100. Also the control mechanism is a tricky to use and it's less like Wii Sports Tennis and more like Pong were you just move the bat in front of the ball and don't swing it.
Laser Hockey is insanely diffecult at start, it basically is a futuritic pong. You use your Wiimote to control the paddle, you will soon find yourself scoring more own goals than getting the ball over to the other side of the arena. You also find your Wiimote point away from your TV and your paddle gets stuck at the side as it cannot leave it's side of the arena. Although this said, Laser Hockey doesn't disappoint, this game will have the whole family laughing and smiling whenever you play it.
The fishing games doesn't take much to catch a fish and is nothing like fishing. Mainly all you have to do it dip you hook in the water which is a challenge by itself, and wait for a fish to hook on, and then raise the controller towards yourself and there you go you have caught a fish. This game is one you will play once or twice and never again.
Duck Hunt is probably one of the more fun games on Wii Play in which you play 5 levels of just shooting things on screen by pointing and pressing B to fire. This is a good multiplayer game which i don't really see my self playing on my own.
Find Mii is similar to the 'Wanted!' game on Super Mario 64 DS, in which you will be told what to look for, then point and press to select them, example of these are 'Find the Mii your using' and 'Find 2 look-a-likes'. This is a fun game which is very difficult.
Pose Mii gets your twisting the controller to fit your Mii into the bubble. It is a little disappoint, you find yourself not having any clue what to do first time you play it. In the later levels you have to change your shape with A and B as well as twist the Wiimote. Overall it turns out disappointing.
Billiards is disappoint too as if you are looking for a game of Pool or Snooker you that is not what your will find. Instead you get a game which tells you which ball to hit. You hit the ball by pointing at the cue ball and holding B pulling the Wiimote back and pushing forward. This works OK, the ball will spin depending on where you hit it, although it spins too much, and sometime when you hit the ball you hit it wrong and it goes no where.
Altogether Wii Play is not a Game to buy by it's self but since it come with a Wiimote, it is definately a need to buy.
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