Nintendo Wii Reviews

We Ski

Do you like to go skiing, but don’t have the time or money to go to an actual slope? Then go virtual skiing with We Ski for the Nintendo Wii. Grab your Wii Remote and Nunchuk or step onto your Wii Balance Board to execute perfect wedge stops, shred the slaloms, and negotiate moguls with ease. With an in-depth Ski School and over a dozen lengthy runs packed with jumps, races, and more, you’ll probably never need to go to a real slope again.

Ski with your Mii or a customized character – Use your own Mii, or customize your characters with a host of combinations and more Earn points to buy new skis, gloves, outfits, and other skiing accessories

User Ratings and Reviews

3 Stars Fun but gets boring
It seems fun at first but it gets rather boring after awhile. I can’t seem to get the crouching to work at all. The balance board makes it a little easier to play. So it’s nice to find some way to use the board other than wii fit.

5 Stars We Ski
As a former skier I love this game. Way Cool. Like skiing in my head!!

4 Stars Great fun!
Our 4 year old loves this game. It allows him to mimic skiing motions well.

5 Stars Adventure and Exercise
I am a grandmother and a skier and I love this game. My two little granddaughters could not get enough of it. I think that there are so many amusements and challenges, with ski school lessons, included that it keeps one’s interest. We use this with the balance board and it makes indoor exercise fun.

1 Star 7thof7
Ordering process good, timely delivery, but not happy with the game, White’s ski game is much better.

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Popularity: 100% [?]

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

4 Stars Great fun for all/most the family
A great game; FOR ITS TARGET AUDIENCE. If you are 8-10 years old you will probably love it… if not it might be a bit easy and repatative.

If you can grab four friends to play a game of cricket or 9-18 holes of disc golf; then people of any age will love it.

Fun for ALL the familly…well maybe not the Emo teenager locked in thier room..

1 Star Very disappointed
The games are very poorly designed. There is no fun in these games, it will frustrate you. Kids even don’t like it because the re is not much action and fun in this cd. Avoid buying it if you can.

5 Stars disc golf fun year around
My husband is a huge disc golfer said this is the first disc golf game he has ever found thinks its good fun

5 Stars Big Beach Sports
The whole family really enjoy playing this game because we love the beach and this is a way for us to participate in different beach activities while were inside our house…..!

3 Stars Not great
The graphics leave something to be desired. Not as fun as it should be.

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Popularity: 11% [?]

We Ski

Do you like to go skiing, but don’t have the time or money to go to an actual slope? Then go virtual skiing with We Ski for the Nintendo Wii. Grab your Wii Remote and Nunchuk or step onto your Wii Balance Board to execute perfect wedge stops, shred the slaloms, and negotiate moguls with ease. With an in-depth Ski School and over a dozen lengthy runs packed with jumps, races, and more, you’ll probably never need to go to a real slope again.

Ski with your Mii or a customized character – Use your own Mii, or customize your characters with a host of combinations and more Earn points to buy new skis, gloves, outfits, and other skiing accessories

User Ratings and Reviews

3 Stars Fun but gets boring
It seems fun at first but it gets rather boring after awhile. I can’t seem to get the crouching to work at all. The balance board makes it a little easier to play. So it’s nice to find some way to use the board other than wii fit.

5 Stars We Ski
As a former skier I love this game. Way Cool. Like skiing in my head!!

4 Stars Great fun!
Our 4 year old loves this game. It allows him to mimic skiing motions well.

5 Stars Adventure and Exercise
I am a grandmother and a skier and I love this game. My two little granddaughters could not get enough of it. I think that there are so many amusements and challenges, with ski school lessons, included that it keeps one’s interest. We use this with the balance board and it makes indoor exercise fun.

1 Star 7thof7
Ordering process good, timely delivery, but not happy with the game, White’s ski game is much better.

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Popularity: 31% [?]

Wii Fit

The active-play phenomenon started by Wii Sports now spreads to your whole body thanks to Wii Fit and the pressure-sensitive Wii Balance Board, which comes bundled with it. Used together players will experience an extensive array of fun, dynamic and surprisingly challenging activities, including aerobics, yoga, muscle stretches and balance oriented games. The focus of these activities is towards providing a “core” workout, a popular exercise method that emphasizes slower, controlled motions, but it’s the fun approach to fitness of Wii Fit that will keep players hooked on fitness for years to come.

Have fun while you get fit

The Wii Balance Board. View larger.

Calculate your BMI and Wii Fit age. View larger.

Enjoy a wide variety of mini-games. View larger.

Follow your own personal trainer. View larger.

Track your progress against friends. View larger.

The Wii Fit Balance Board
The primary tenet of Wii Fit is balance. Your center of balance, the point between your left and right sides when you stand upright, has a lot to do with your health. Those without an even center of balance will be unnaturally compensating for this imbalance, which causes their posture to become misaligned, increasing the possibility of putting unnecessary strain on their bodies. This is where the Wii Balance Board comes in.

Similar in appearance to a step aerobics board, the Wii Balance Board is much, much more. Easily capable of supporting weights up to a maximum of 300 pounds, it is sturdy and precise, able to measure weight and register pressure accurately when placed on a variety of flat surfaces. This advanced level of sensitivity allows for both the wide range of activities found in the Wii Fit software as well as the board’s amazing ability recognize individual players by their weight alone.

Getting Started: Create a Profile
Before you jump into doing exercises and activities, you’ll start by creating a profile. This is done easily and intuitively by simply choosing a Mii, entering your height and age information, and doing a few quick tests that will serve as a baseline for your new Wii fitness regimen. These tests are:

• BMI Check: BMI, or Body Mass Index, is a measure of body fat based on height and weight that is the standard used by agencies such as the World Health Organization and the National Institute of Health. To check your BMI, you’ll enter your height then stand on the Wii Balance Board and let it read your weight.
• Wii Fit Age: After you’ve checked your BMI, you’ll do a basic balance test and find out your current Wii Fit Age. This basic balance test measures how well you can control your left and right balance. Based on the results, you’ll be assigned a Wii Fit Age.

Four Categories of Fun
Once you have created your profile it’s time to have some fun. Wii Fit features four main categories of exercises to choose from: Strength Training, Aerobics, Yoga and Balance Games. Wii Fit will guide you through the first three with the help of your own virtual personal trainer, while the balance games offer variety and fun to help keep you engaged and excited about your fitness goals. In addition, as you spend time exercising, you’ll earn Fit Credits that unlock additional exercises and activities within your favorite categories that will allow you to continue to push yourself. See more detail on the four categories below:

• Strength Training: Put your strength to the test with muscle-toning exercises like Single Leg Extension, Sideways Leg Lift, Arm and Leg Lift, Single-Arm Stand, Torso Twists, Rowing Squat, Single Leg Twist, Lunge, Push-Up and Side Plank, Jackknife, Plank and Tricep Extension. Challenges include Push-Up Challenge, Plank Challenge and Jackknife Challenge.
• Aerobics: Get your heart pumping with fun, interactive Aerobic exercises like Hula Hoop, Basic Step, Basic Run, Super Hula Hoop, Advanced Step, 2-P Run, Rhythm Boxing, Free Step and Free Run.
• Yoga: Work on your balance and flexibility with Yoga poses and activities like Deep Breathing, Half-Moon, Dance, Cobra, Bridge, Spinal Twist, Shoulder Stand, Warrior, Tree, Sun Salutation, Standing Knee, Palm Tree, Chair, Triangle and Downward-Facing Dog.
• Balance Games: Get into the action with fun, balanced-based games like Soccer Heading, Ski Slalom, Ski Jump, Table Tilt, Tightrope Walk, Balance Bubble, Penguin Slide, Snowboard Slalom and Lotus Focus.

Keep Track of Your Progress
Because keeping fit is an ongoing process, Wii Fit also tracks the activities you do the most and puts them into your Favorites category. With this information players can note exercises and activities that they are strong in, as well as others that may need to improve at. Some of the ways players can use this information for are to:

• Keep tabs on your daily progress with easy-to-understand graphs and charts. Using your personal profile, you can set goals, view a graph of your BMI results over time, see how many Fit Credits you’ve earned, check your Wii Fit Age and even enter exercise time you’ve done outside of Wii Fit. It’s all about coming back and exercising a little every day, and the personal profile makes tracking your daily progress simple and easy.
• Quickly check your Wii Fit Age and BMI without even putting the game in the console by going directly to the Wii Fit Channel.
• Allow up to eight family members can create their own profiles in Wii Fit. On the profile-selection screen, everyone in the family can see each other’s recent BMI progress and Fit Credit total. This will allow families to have a friendly competition to exercise and get fit.

Variety, fun and progress tracking; Wii Fit has it all. So, Wii owners if you ready to reclaim your balance and get fit all you need is Wii Fit, a few minutes a day to play and the urge to have fun. Get on board today.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Pretty darned good
The Wii Fit is a nice entertaining way to get some light to medium exercise. Don’t expect to get your heart pounding too much unless you really concentrate on the advanced aerobic games. I do wish there were some way to make the trainers shut up and get down to business, but its only a minor annoyance. Overall, we really enjoy it.

4 Stars Wii Fit
This does not even seem like your exercising when using the Wii Fit. Loads of fun and challenges. Just wish there was more of the Wii Step Class, love that one the most!

5 Stars Fun for the WHOLE family … ANd lose some weight at the same time!!
I got a Wii Fit for Mother’s Day (after I requested it!), actually it was an early mother’s day present I got it about 2 weeks before that and have had it for about a month now. I LOVE it! I have not missed a day since I got it and have lost 10 pounds. My daughter who is 4 also loves to do it and it has helped her balance and coordination improve. My husband also enjoys it! My 2 year old son will stand next to me and mimick the Yoga poses that I do … it is so cute!

For us it has been fun for the WHOLE family. We have all enjoyed it and it has helped me to lose weight. I think it helps you to be accounatable for your weight loss and gain. You can set weight loss goals on it and have fun as a family doing the exercises together.

The balance board has a weight limit of 300 lbs and has a lot of variety with different games to do to keep you interested and the whole family entertained!!

5 Stars one of the best wii accesorie
really, it’s a great accesorie. we use it to fit ourselves. it’s amazing how much fun it is!good price

5 Stars Wii Fit
I have never been into video games. The Wii game system is the best game I have ever used. The Wii Fit is a blast. My husband and I really enjoy it.

Buy/More Info

Popularity: 13% [?]

Wii Fit

The active-play phenomenon started by Wii Sports now spreads to your whole body thanks to Wii Fit and the pressure-sensitive Wii Balance Board, which comes bundled with it. Used together players will experience an extensive array of fun, dynamic and surprisingly challenging activities, including aerobics, yoga, muscle stretches and balance oriented games. The focus of these activities is towards providing a “core” workout, a popular exercise method that emphasizes slower, controlled motions, but it’s the fun approach to fitness of Wii Fit that will keep players hooked on fitness for years to come.

Have fun while you get fit

The Wii Balance Board. View larger.

Calculate your BMI and Wii Fit age. View larger.

Enjoy a wide variety of mini-games. View larger.

Follow your own personal trainer. View larger.

Track your progress against friends. View larger.

The Wii Fit Balance Board
The primary tenet of Wii Fit is balance. Your center of balance, the point between your left and right sides when you stand upright, has a lot to do with your health. Those without an even center of balance will be unnaturally compensating for this imbalance, which causes their posture to become misaligned, increasing the possibility of putting unnecessary strain on their bodies. This is where the Wii Balance Board comes in.

Similar in appearance to a step aerobics board, the Wii Balance Board is much, much more. Easily capable of supporting weights up to a maximum of 300 pounds, it is sturdy and precise, able to measure weight and register pressure accurately when placed on a variety of flat surfaces. This advanced level of sensitivity allows for both the wide range of activities found in the Wii Fit software as well as the board’s amazing ability recognize individual players by their weight alone.

Getting Started: Create a Profile
Before you jump into doing exercises and activities, you’ll start by creating a profile. This is done easily and intuitively by simply choosing a Mii, entering your height and age information, and doing a few quick tests that will serve as a baseline for your new Wii fitness regimen. These tests are:

• BMI Check: BMI, or Body Mass Index, is a measure of body fat based on height and weight that is the standard used by agencies such as the World Health Organization and the National Institute of Health. To check your BMI, you’ll enter your height then stand on the Wii Balance Board and let it read your weight.
• Wii Fit Age: After you’ve checked your BMI, you’ll do a basic balance test and find out your current Wii Fit Age. This basic balance test measures how well you can control your left and right balance. Based on the results, you’ll be assigned a Wii Fit Age.

Four Categories of Fun
Once you have created your profile it’s time to have some fun. Wii Fit features four main categories of exercises to choose from: Strength Training, Aerobics, Yoga and Balance Games. Wii Fit will guide you through the first three with the help of your own virtual personal trainer, while the balance games offer variety and fun to help keep you engaged and excited about your fitness goals. In addition, as you spend time exercising, you’ll earn Fit Credits that unlock additional exercises and activities within your favorite categories that will allow you to continue to push yourself. See more detail on the four categories below:

• Strength Training: Put your strength to the test with muscle-toning exercises like Single Leg Extension, Sideways Leg Lift, Arm and Leg Lift, Single-Arm Stand, Torso Twists, Rowing Squat, Single Leg Twist, Lunge, Push-Up and Side Plank, Jackknife, Plank and Tricep Extension. Challenges include Push-Up Challenge, Plank Challenge and Jackknife Challenge.
• Aerobics: Get your heart pumping with fun, interactive Aerobic exercises like Hula Hoop, Basic Step, Basic Run, Super Hula Hoop, Advanced Step, 2-P Run, Rhythm Boxing, Free Step and Free Run.
• Yoga: Work on your balance and flexibility with Yoga poses and activities like Deep Breathing, Half-Moon, Dance, Cobra, Bridge, Spinal Twist, Shoulder Stand, Warrior, Tree, Sun Salutation, Standing Knee, Palm Tree, Chair, Triangle and Downward-Facing Dog.
• Balance Games: Get into the action with fun, balanced-based games like Soccer Heading, Ski Slalom, Ski Jump, Table Tilt, Tightrope Walk, Balance Bubble, Penguin Slide, Snowboard Slalom and Lotus Focus.

Keep Track of Your Progress
Because keeping fit is an ongoing process, Wii Fit also tracks the activities you do the most and puts them into your Favorites category. With this information players can note exercises and activities that they are strong in, as well as others that may need to improve at. Some of the ways players can use this information for are to:

• Keep tabs on your daily progress with easy-to-understand graphs and charts. Using your personal profile, you can set goals, view a graph of your BMI results over time, see how many Fit Credits you’ve earned, check your Wii Fit Age and even enter exercise time you’ve done outside of Wii Fit. It’s all about coming back and exercising a little every day, and the personal profile makes tracking your daily progress simple and easy.
• Quickly check your Wii Fit Age and BMI without even putting the game in the console by going directly to the Wii Fit Channel.
• Allow up to eight family members can create their own profiles in Wii Fit. On the profile-selection screen, everyone in the family can see each other’s recent BMI progress and Fit Credit total. This will allow families to have a friendly competition to exercise and get fit.

Variety, fun and progress tracking; Wii Fit has it all. So, Wii owners if you ready to reclaim your balance and get fit all you need is Wii Fit, a few minutes a day to play and the urge to have fun. Get on board today.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Pretty darned good
The Wii Fit is a nice entertaining way to get some light to medium exercise. Don’t expect to get your heart pounding too much unless you really concentrate on the advanced aerobic games. I do wish there were some way to make the trainers shut up and get down to business, but its only a minor annoyance. Overall, we really enjoy it.

4 Stars Wii Fit
This does not even seem like your exercising when using the Wii Fit. Loads of fun and challenges. Just wish there was more of the Wii Step Class, love that one the most!

5 Stars Fun for the WHOLE family … ANd lose some weight at the same time!!
I got a Wii Fit for Mother’s Day (after I requested it!), actually it was an early mother’s day present I got it about 2 weeks before that and have had it for about a month now. I LOVE it! I have not missed a day since I got it and have lost 10 pounds. My daughter who is 4 also loves to do it and it has helped her balance and coordination improve. My husband also enjoys it! My 2 year old son will stand next to me and mimick the Yoga poses that I do … it is so cute!

For us it has been fun for the WHOLE family. We have all enjoyed it and it has helped me to lose weight. I think it helps you to be accounatable for your weight loss and gain. You can set weight loss goals on it and have fun as a family doing the exercises together.

The balance board has a weight limit of 300 lbs and has a lot of variety with different games to do to keep you interested and the whole family entertained!!

5 Stars one of the best wii accesorie
really, it’s a great accesorie. we use it to fit ourselves. it’s amazing how much fun it is!good price

5 Stars Wii Fit
I have never been into video games. The Wii game system is the best game I have ever used. The Wii Fit is a blast. My husband and I really enjoy it.

Buy/More Info

Popularity: 10% [?]

Summer Athletics The Ultimate Challenge

Summer Athletics offers multiplayer fun for the entire family and brings the action and excitement of the most popular summer sport disciplines right into your living room. The charming 3D comic style, varying levels of difficulty and intuitive controls will make Summer Athletics great fun for beginners and experts alike. Customize your character and develop your career as a professional athlete in career mode or challenge your friends in head-to-head competition.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Good game you will get a workout
This is a good game you will work your arms in some of the events. Most of the events are really fun and a good workout. One player and two player modes are really good. Learning how to do some events can be tough.Creating a person that looks like you is tough. Some of the motions don’t match the events but most of this game is really good.

3 Stars Unless your a gamer
Unless your really into video games, you’ll find this pretty hard to play. The graphics are great but it throws you into 3-D mode in the middle of your play. Definately for a more experienced player than me.

Wii sports and Wii games is a lot more user friendly and very fun.

5 Stars Love this game
Personally, I love any game that involves competition and medal/award winning. There are so many events in this game and each competition is pretty unique. There is also the ability to create a custom competition and compete in only the events you choose. This game (at least for me) is not one that you master on the first time you play it. It takes practice. You are able to play alone against NPCs or with up to 4 people. It is a great workout for the arms and shoulders. I really enjoy it.

4 Stars Great work out for the arms!
This game uses nunchucks and you are constantly working out those arms! I’m still trying to get used to the swimming and diving part as well cycling but let me tell you, you will be tired but in a fun way! Great game if you are challenging someone to a race. Great buy!

3 Stars A workout for sure!
This game will definitely get all your muscles working! Exactly how I thought the running events would be (drumming the nunchuck and the controller). Same for the throwing events, though it does take some time to get the timing down. The archery is pretty cool. Personally I think the diving is the hardest thing to master. First time is a little muddled to figure out how to do split screen, create your own player ect (but then again I never read the book, I just fire it up!)

A good game if you are trapped inside with some friends for a friendly competition!

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Popularity: 7% [?]

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

4 Stars Great fun for all/most the family
A great game; FOR ITS TARGET AUDIENCE. If you are 8-10 years old you will probably love it… if not it might be a bit easy and repatative.

If you can grab four friends to play a game of cricket or 9-18 holes of disc golf; then people of any age will love it.

Fun for ALL the familly…well maybe not the Emo teenager locked in thier room..

1 Star Very disappointed
The games are very poorly designed. There is no fun in these games, it will frustrate you. Kids even don’t like it because the re is not much action and fun in this cd. Avoid buying it if you can.

5 Stars disc golf fun year around
My husband is a huge disc golfer said this is the first disc golf game he has ever found thinks its good fun

5 Stars Big Beach Sports
The whole family really enjoy playing this game because we love the beach and this is a way for us to participate in different beach activities while were inside our house…..!

3 Stars Not great
The graphics leave something to be desired. Not as fun as it should be.

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Popularity: 9% [?]