Nintendo Wii Media | Wii Play

By James Temperton 19.10.2006 21

Featuring a number of mini-games to suit all tastes from table tennis to laser hockey, a duck hunt style shooting game, a pool game and even a chance for you to pose your Wii Mii character in a virtual world. Wii Play is yet another attempt by Nintendo to entice the non-gaming masses to the Wii. For loads more information about the title you can check out our full hands-on preview with the game after our recent play test.

If you're not in the reading mood, we have some lovely new artwork and good quality screenshots for you to enjoy in the album below. More Wii Play information soon...

Box art for Wii Play
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Nintendo

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Nintendo

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Party

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4

C3 Score

Rated $score out of 10  6/10

Reader Score

Rated $score out of 10  7/10 (24 Votes)

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Slydevil is offline. Slydevil 19.10.2006#1

Meh, looks ok. Wouldn't pay anymore than ten quid for it though.

IANC said:
Dude yuor totally awesome. And i won't be killing you anytime soon.

 
Mr. T is offline. Mr. T 19.10.2006#2

I'm a bit unsure about this one really. If they include a decent enough amount of minigames it'll be great fun and well worth the money. What they have shown so far is pretty good fun Smilie

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WP-Final is offline. WP-Final 19.10.2006#3

Play.com is selling it for

 
CALUM is offline. CALUM 19.10.2006#4

Quite good boxart, it's simple and represents fun.


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electricnomad is offline. electricnomad 19.10.2006#5

Is it official now that the non-gaming crowd prefer really simple graphics over... everything?

 
Prometheus is offline. Prometheus 19.10.2006#6

Ive gotta say that box art makes me want to hurl... Its just.. too kiddie you know.. I like the look of the game and with the free controller I will be getting it. Also the duck hunt and ping pong would most probably be the games I play over and over again lol.

 
Laurelin is offline. Laurelin 19.10.2006#7

Yeah, the free controller is the thing to get here.
But I would be pleased if Wii Play would be wonderful and worthwhile...

I find your lack of faith disturbing!
 
tiamat1990 is offline. tiamat1990 19.10.2006#8

IfritXVII said:
Play.com is selling it for

 
Prometheus is offline. Prometheus 19.10.2006#9

O come on pool table tennis and duck hunt Smilie whats not to like? I guess the fishing and poser games might not be that exciting, but multiplayer table tennis has its own dedicated game on 360 Smilie

 
dojo is offline. dojo 19.10.2006#10

Hey, to Sally down the road, who's 72, this could be just what she needs to get into videogaming...Smilie

 
tiamat1990 is offline. tiamat1990 19.10.2006#11

Prometheus said:
O come on pool table tennis and duck hunt Smilie whats not to like? I guess the fishing and poser games might not be that exciting, but multiplayer table tennis has its own dedicated game on 360 Smilie

There's Wii Sports which looks much more fun.

 
jb is offline. jb 19.10.2006#12

Lol, could be pretty fun - worth-it for a coupla quid extra with a Wii-remote.

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JoshSL is offline. JoshSL 19.10.2006#13

I reckon that it'll be a good purchase, a little game with a free Wiimote, I reckon I'll be gettin' it Smilie

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The Croft is offline. The Croft 19.10.2006#14

It selling point is that it comes free with a Wiimote can't wait for Duck Hunt

Boxart by the way looks horribleSmilie


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Zapp is offline. Zapp 20.10.2006#15

Is it official that it will come with a free wii-mote!?!?!

anyway the game looks preety fun to play, i reckon this is a game you might wanna play with your parents! this would be the perfect game to get your parents/gran-parents into gaming!!! it looks very simple and fun. Smilie Smilie

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Satoshi is offline. Satoshi 20.10.2006#16

Slydevil said:
Meh, looks ok. Wouldnt pay anymore than ten quid for it though.

Cause it comes with a free wiimote, it is 10quidSmilie

They could have done better with the boxart.

And whats with the electro-mii-plankton!!???
If it is i'd get this game without the free wiimote! (Almost)

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tiamat1990 is offline. tiamat1990 20.10.2006#17

Oh fuck this. Games over here are US$75. Why do we keep on getting screwed!! God damn Americans!

 
raindog469 is offline. raindog469 20.10.2006#18

If the Japanese "free wiimote" bundle makes it over here to the US, I'll get it just for that air hockey game. Without the free wiimote I'd still pay around 30 bucks/15 quid.

Sorry, I was one of those people who really thought Pong was fun back in the 70's, and still play it when another player is around nowadays. The grandparents you guys talk about playing this with are probably about the same age as my parents.... my 96 year old grandmother might take a stab at the golf in Wii Sports, but I'm not going to push it.

Also, non-gamers don't "prefer" anything about games, they just don't want to be intimidated. Some of you may have heard of this game called Golden Tee, or even seen it in bars and restaurants. That is the kind of game non-gamers will try.... it has a trackball, plus a button to pick your club, and it simulates an activity they like doing in real life. They've never played a game before (or haven't played one since the early 80's, maybe) and so they have no idea whether graphics are "simple" or "cutting-edge", just whether they are "pretty" or "ugly".

You don't need 2 million polys a second to do "pretty".

 
Marzeee is offline. Marzeee 20.10.2006#19

Looking good, I cant wait to get my hands on this it looks really fun and with a controller with it, it's hard to resist.

 
Megadanxzero is offline. Megadanxzero 20.10.2006#20

If only I had some friends to play Wii games with Smilie

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JoshSL is offline. JoshSL 20.10.2006#21

Megadanxzero said:
If only I had some friends to play Wii games with Smilie
HAHAAAHAHAHAHAAAAHHAAHAHA! *SHH!*

Sorry Smilie

*ahem* Me & my bro will have 1 controller each from day one, one of them shall be gotten from this game Smilie, so if anyone else wants to play with our Wii, they must get their OWN controllers! Smilie

Eww kinky.

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