Big Beach Sports
Big Beach Sports drops players into a seaside resort setting where up to four players can compete in sports including volleyball, soccer, American football, bocce, disc golf and cricket. The additional single player tournament structure encourages players to master each sport through the use of creative control combinations and real-life sport motions.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Big Beach Sports for Wii
The Wii Big Beach Sports game has given us many hours of entertainment. We love football and soccer the most. We still haven’t quite figured out the rules for Cricket! The Disc Golf is a little to easy. Overall I’m sure most family’s will find this game enjoyable.
4 Stars For the disc golf lovers
So I bought this game only because of the disc golf. I dislike the other games anyway so in fairness this review is about the use of the disc golf game not the other games in this package.
The controls could not be more straight forward, you throw as you would think and you just hold down the A button, judging the distance and power take some getting used to, but so goes real life. The harder you throw in reality the harder the simulation throws, even tilting the controler at an angle makes a little tiny difference on right and left gliding dics.
The only problems I have found is there is only one course with 18 holes. I can’t wait for a multi-course disc game to come out.
Now my pervious review stated that you could not flick throw, I was wrong. This weekend I got drunk and pressed a button and I was flick throwing and hammer throwing. So leave your character in the hand you play with and press the (1) button. Once for flick and twice for hammer. It works pretty well. For right handed players (which I am) a back hand will fade right and a flick will fade left, a hammer goes straight.
I give this game 4 stars because nothing is perfect and it’s a lot of fun. Have your TV up high and stand up.
4 Stars A set of Sports Games that is just about right…
This set of games is perfectly priced and all are easy to play and yet provide a certain amount of depth that can provide a competitive challenge for those so desiring some competition with their friends or family members.
The game starts off with providing the (now) standard function of creating and customizing a character for yourself(though this is not necessary as there are a selection of stock characters to use).
Then it is right to the Game selection menu. With a very eclectic offering of sports games all played at the Beach. Bocce, Cricket, Volleyball, DiscGolf, Soccer and American Football.
Each of these games has had some of the rules simplified or streamlined for easy and quick play. Football has taken some ideas from the backyard varient. In that it is 2 on 2, and you and your teammate alternate as Quarterback. There are no Extra Points, but an Interception counts as points for the team whom caused it. Volleyball also scores points against the team whom does not return 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.
4 Stars Lotsa Fun
This game is a lot of fun. The reason I don’t give it 5 stars is that some of the moves are limited/strange and don’t seem to correspond with what is happening on the screen. Also, it was difficult to choose players and make teams. Once all that is figured out, it’s a lot of fun. The games are easy to learn for the most part so younger players can pick up the moves quickly.
2 Stars Okay if you just want to sit on the couch
We rented this game before buying, and I’m really glad that we did. Our family really loves playing live volleyball and other beach games. We were pretty disappointed.
First we went to create our character. The graphics for creating the character made it difficult to understand what menu items went to what.
After taking forever to create our character (which, no matter what you did to it looked like a fat, football player), we headed to the volleyball game. The instructions were adequate. We started the game, and it was okay, but not very physical. It was probably the best of all the games we tried. The music that played throughout had a beach feel, but became verrry annoying. We ended up turning the volume way down.
We tried cricket. Aside from not understanding the rules because, lets face it, I’m American, I had a big problem with the game responding to my commands. I would swing, and the game would not recognize my swing. I would throw (excuse me, bowl) the ball and the game would 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.
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