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DKII on 18 December 2007
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ElRhodeo said:
DKII said:
I played it, found it to be either so motion-intensive that it was too tiring to really be fun, or the controls were too complex for new players to get into it without a lot of difficulty. It doesn't have nearly the perfect balance that Wii Sports does.

That's what many reviewers said, and I have to say that I think those two complaints are a bit contradictory.

You can't on the one hand complain about the game being "a shallow wagglefest", while dismissing the more advanced events as too complicated. What's wrong with failing at a game when you play it for the first time? For example, I didn't get swimming in the beginning and finished #8. Next time I realized how to do it.

I think I will have more fun with this than with Wii Sports. I hardly ever play Wii Sports, because it is completely lacking any atmosphere... It's like doing sports in a dentists waiting room.

 


It might be more fun single-player, but in multi-player there were two outcomes:

1)  It was so motion-intensive we were too tired/sore to really enjoy it.  Sprinting and swimming, for example.
2)  The games were too complex/difficult for new players so the "hardcore" gamers always won by a landslide.  The examples that stand out for me are the skeet shooting and the trampoline.

There are a handful of fun ones, fencing and table tennis, but they just aren't as fun as Wii Sports, which remains the best all-around package for playing with people who have never played video games before.