Big Beach Sports: Nintendo Wii

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games & other options.
Volleyball - you control both players on your team, good control, good timing, one of the best volleyball on wii considering the constraint of control, how hard you swing actually makes a difference.
Disc golf - good controls, good aim, 3 different ways to throw, painfully dull courses Super monkey ball's disc golf has better course.
Bocce - good control/aim, how hard you swing makes no difference, much faster & more interesting then slow moving shuffleboard on game party.
Cricket - like baseball on wii sports, good controls, I had no problems, how hard you swing makes a difference, I found it pretty good, one of the best & not too slow watching the players move on their own after you throw/bowl or at bat.
Football - hard to learn control scheme since not as intuitive, little buggy as well, though great idea only 2 players per game & cute
Soccer - four players on each team, you don't control the goalie, just a lot of passing & deciding when to shoot for goal, boring.
None of these will get your heart rate going like wii sports except on a arcade game level, though for sports games, I did enjoy them more then all the other sport only mini game titles (except wii sports) (I'm not into watching professional sports.)
I think this title went in the right direction, but needed more polishing & new wii motion plus should really help things next year for the new titles. Adding the wii board as an option for sport games should also be an option.

Big Beach Sports: Nintendo Wii

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not respond very well. Compared with Wii Sports golf and baseball, cricket was very slow and clunky.

We had the same type of experience with the frisbee golf.

We tried soccer. I think soccer would be a fun arcade-type game. It has a lot of different moves that seemed fun with the remote, but it was not much of a physical game.

We were so frustrated with the other games that we didn't even try them.

Overall I would say that the games weren't realistic, but I could understand how an experienced gamer might like some of the games for arcade-type play. We wanted physical activity. I think we'll buy a different game for that.

Big Beach Sports: Nintendo Wii

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the ball, whether it was their serve or not.

Each game usually has a variety of easy to set up functions at the beginning as well as picking from Single play to multi-play. For example, you can set the Quarter and field lengths for Football. You can select between Traditional(furthest from jack goes) and Simple(set turn order) for Bocce.

Score or timed games (Soccer). # of holes for DiscGolf & # of sets for Volleyball.

The Wii controller setup is very straight forward and for the most part intuitive. For example, you flick the controller up to jump in the air in Volleyball, and thrust it down to spike the ball...just as you would for real. And Bocce uses the same forward motion as Bowling. Discgolf is exactly like throwing a frisbee. Cricket used the motions you would use in Baseball.

We rank this game quite highly in our family and friends game group, ranging in ages from 6 to 50+. There is a little something for everyone. And everyone will have a good time playing the games.

Kudos to the designers for offering games you would rarely see in a video game (speaking of Bocce, Disc Golf and Cricket). All of which are excellent versions of each.
Though I am a little confused about the inability to play as Teams in Bocce (its every man for himself in multiplayer). And the sameness of the holes in Discgolf was a little bit of a letdown.

Undocumented buttons and controls serve as a surprise in some of the games (like the ability to hit the ball back in one hit in Volleyball... and no instructions on what button combination will intercept the football...

Still, this should be a must buy for anyone looking for a unique collection of accessible and fun games for your parties and family gatherings.

Wait till you get into some multi-player Volleyball matches.