Holiday At Home With Wii Sports Resort

So, we bought Wii Sports Resort for our Nintendo Wii – and a couple of those Wii Motion Plus controller add-ons for the Wii Remotes – is it any good and possibly better than Wii Sports? It certainly is, let me tell you why.

First off, there is a wider variety of games all set around the Wii Sports Resort Islands. Games include Swordery, Archery, Canoeing, Wakeboarding, Skydiving, Table Tennis, Golf and Island Flyovers (and a number of others). The kids love it, I only wish there was a quick replay button (to avoid all the menus) allowing us to get back into the game quickly. It is worth mentioning that the Wii MotionPlus accessory is requires for Wii Sports Resort.

Some games, such as the Island Flyover and Swordery, can be played with the Wii Remote alone (with Wii MotionPlus attached) whilst others, such as Archery, require the Nunchuck addition but each is clearly labelled. The music and sound also works well, not too much and not too little – the Swordplay Showdown uses this to good effect.

The Wii MotionPlus add-ons for the Wii Remotes let the Nintendo Wii become the gaming machine I thought it would be at the outset and it makes such a huge difference to the gaming experience. For example, no longer is a flick of the wrist all you really need to bowl the ball in bowling – now the movement reflects what I am actually doing (the Swordery games really demonstrate this ability).

Flying the various planes in the Island flyover, whilst popping balloons, is great fun (try flying into then through the volcano) and both the little kids and us big kids love it. We only have five more information signs to find to unlock the final feature of the Island Flyover game.

We all have our own favourite games and it is quite quick changing characters to choose our games and the multi-player elements lift the game immensely – my partner and I are already highly competitive over the archery game, for example. The canoeing game is fun and the kids love it too, as you get to treat the Wii Remote like a paddle and have to navigate the sometimes tricky course.