Nintendo Wii Reviews

Boom Blox

Fun for kids and the entire family, BOOM BLOX offers action-packed interactive activities that takes Wii play to a new level of creativity and fun with single player, co-op, and versus gameplay. Players can explore the visceral gameplay that keeps them destroying their way through brain-twisting challenges. They can interact with entertaining characters such as the Blox-laying chickens or the baseball-throwing monkeys, who bring personality to the Tiki, Medieval, Frontier, and Haunted themed environments. Additionally, players can remix any level of the game in Create Mode using props, blocks, or characters that have been unlocked during the game. Players can also virtually build anything they can dream up. Plus, their designs can then be shared with friends or used to challenge others to solve their newly created puzzle via WiiConnect24.

User Ratings and Reviews

3 Stars Not what I was expecting
I thought this game could be better. The game is not bad, in fact is quite interesting, but it is not so good for having 4 and half star. I think there are better games out there.

5 Stars Entertaining for single or multiplayer
I got this game because I was looking for one that would be equally fun when playing alone or with guests. This game has fit the bill and then some.

I will admit when I originally picked up this game I was skeptical of how fun it would be. Described as a ‘puzzle/action game’ it looked a bit basic in terms of skill level and complexity. I also worried that it would be something more enteraining for families with young children than twentysomethings. Happily this game proved me wrong and not only have my boyfriend and I gone through almost all the game play available, his mother also loved it so much she got her own copy.

There are many positives about the game. The first is that it is addictively fun. We have played it with many different crowds and have yet to find someone who doesn’t enjoy the game. Most are skeptical at first, but then addicted. It is an especially good game for newbies to the Wii because the game play is very easy to master and intuitive. Because of this less time is spent mastering the remote and more on enjoying the game. It also takes full advantage of the movement and possibilities of the Wii remote so it feels very different than playing a game on another system.

I also appreciated the variety of activities between a single game. Even though they are all different adapations of Jenga like games they are different enough to keep me entertained for hours. Each game felt different enough that even when I had made it through most of the levels the subsequent ones never felt repetitive or boring. There is even an in-game editor so you can build levels on your own, leading to seemingly endless gameplay.

Even though I can usually find some flaw with every video game I’ve purchased this was not the case with this game. If anything, I’m wishing it came with more levels so I could play longer.

Overall this is a great game that I would recommend whether you are into single or multiplayer gameplay. It is a particularly good game if you are new to the Wii system and want something you can master and enjoy quickly. It is easily up there with Mario Kart Wii with Wii Wheel and Super Mario Galaxy.

5 Stars Addictive Party Game
I’m a casual game. 20-30 minutes and I’m ready to do something else. I also like to play with friends as a social activity. This game is perfect for me because it’s essential the board game Jenga but with hundreds of interesting variations. The fun is in competing with your friends and talking trash, but it also takes some intelligence and spacial reasoning abilities.

If you like to play fun games that don’t have a steep learning curve so your friends can easily play, this is great game. Highly recommended.

5 Stars Great fun for young or old
This is a real sleeper of a great game.

You will have many, many hours of fun playing this one.

Give it a try and you won’t be disappointed.

5 Stars One of the best party games
I had never heard of this game until some friends and I went to rent a few games to play for the weekend. We found Boom Blox and thought it looked ok, so we took it home and played all night. I liked it so much I bought it.

The multiplayer mode is the best. We had tons of fun and played for hours, though, yes, our arms were sore the next day. Single player can be pretty fun, but it does get lonely after a while.

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Deal or No Deal

You have one question to answer in this videogame based on the popular trivia show: Deal or No Deal? The hit TV show comes to your favorite video game system. The premise is simple: You have 26 briefcases in front of you. Each one contains a different amount of money. Open each case one by one, and try to find the briefcase with the biggest amount of money. Deal Or No Deal?

User Ratings and Reviews

3 Stars Don’t Expect Big Thrills, But Some Moderate Fun
I really enjoy the show so when I received this as a gift I was excited. Like other reviewers said, the first couple of times you play it’s fairly thrilling. After that you get tired of hearing the same voice “open the case” and you’ll push the “a” button to skip Howie all together. This takes away the anticipation, and therefore, the thrill. There are “mini” games and by “mini” they really mean “MINI”…there are only three. Shoot cases for money, black jack, or something else that escapes me now so it must not have been fun. All in all, it’s just okay.

2 Stars Sucks after 10 minutes
My 8 and 10 year old would not use such language as exhibited in the title of this review but clearly that is what they were thinking. The game play, graphics and the transitions all sucked – I know this is a Wii with limited capabilities but Howie this is not how we (should) do it…

5 Stars Deal or No Deal and Amazon
Deal or No DealDeal or No Deal for Wii is fun.Skill level is nice for all levels and great for all fitness groups. It takes no experience or action

A great game to have around for all ages. Im happy to have this game in

our home for company that stays the week end and just wants to hang around the house. No matter what the age there is no worry over anything

being said that would offend anyone or any blood letting zombies. It is also fun to see who has the “betting streak” and who will take the money and run. Most of all I would like to say Amazon was great to ship and take care of our order. Im so impressed with Amazon and how well they treat their customers and also the merchants that are in Amazon. Bravo!

1 Star Deal or No Deal review
This is a fun game for young and old and it came in on a timely fashion great all the way around!!

4 Stars great game for family
this is a great game for the whole family or a party. everyone gets excited and it keeps track of your total winning when you use your mii for all the games you play so we all try and beat each other even when we are playing alone.

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Boom Blox

Fun for kids and the entire family, BOOM BLOX offers action-packed interactive activities that takes Wii play to a new level of creativity and fun with single player, co-op, and versus gameplay. Players can explore the visceral gameplay that keeps them destroying their way through brain-twisting challenges. They can interact with entertaining characters such as the Blox-laying chickens or the baseball-throwing monkeys, who bring personality to the Tiki, Medieval, Frontier, and Haunted themed environments. Additionally, players can remix any level of the game in Create Mode using props, blocks, or characters that have been unlocked during the game. Players can also virtually build anything they can dream up. Plus, their designs can then be shared with friends or used to challenge others to solve their newly created puzzle via WiiConnect24.

User Ratings and Reviews

3 Stars Not what I was expecting
I thought this game could be better. The game is not bad, in fact is quite interesting, but it is not so good for having 4 and half star. I think there are better games out there.

5 Stars Entertaining for single or multiplayer
I got this game because I was looking for one that would be equally fun when playing alone or with guests. This game has fit the bill and then some.

I will admit when I originally picked up this game I was skeptical of how fun it would be. Described as a ‘puzzle/action game’ it looked a bit basic in terms of skill level and complexity. I also worried that it would be something more enteraining for families with young children than twentysomethings. Happily this game proved me wrong and not only have my boyfriend and I gone through almost all the game play available, his mother also loved it so much she got her own copy.

There are many positives about the game. The first is that it is addictively fun. We have played it with many different crowds and have yet to find someone who doesn’t enjoy the game. Most are skeptical at first, but then addicted. It is an especially good game for newbies to the Wii because the game play is very easy to master and intuitive. Because of this less time is spent mastering the remote and more on enjoying the game. It also takes full advantage of the movement and possibilities of the Wii remote so it feels very different than playing a game on another system.

I also appreciated the variety of activities between a single game. Even though they are all different adapations of Jenga like games they are different enough to keep me entertained for hours. Each game felt different enough that even when I had made it through most of the levels the subsequent ones never felt repetitive or boring. There is even an in-game editor so you can build levels on your own, leading to seemingly endless gameplay.

Even though I can usually find some flaw with every video game I’ve purchased this was not the case with this game. If anything, I’m wishing it came with more levels so I could play longer.

Overall this is a great game that I would recommend whether you are into single or multiplayer gameplay. It is a particularly good game if you are new to the Wii system and want something you can master and enjoy quickly. It is easily up there with Mario Kart Wii with Wii Wheel and Super Mario Galaxy.

5 Stars Addictive Party Game
I’m a casual game. 20-30 minutes and I’m ready to do something else. I also like to play with friends as a social activity. This game is perfect for me because it’s essential the board game Jenga but with hundreds of interesting variations. The fun is in competing with your friends and talking trash, but it also takes some intelligence and spacial reasoning abilities.

If you like to play fun games that don’t have a steep learning curve so your friends can easily play, this is great game. Highly recommended.

5 Stars Great fun for young or old
This is a real sleeper of a great game.

You will have many, many hours of fun playing this one.

Give it a try and you won’t be disappointed.

5 Stars One of the best party games
I had never heard of this game until some friends and I went to rent a few games to play for the weekend. We found Boom Blox and thought it looked ok, so we took it home and played all night. I liked it so much I bought it.

The multiplayer mode is the best. We had tons of fun and played for hours, though, yes, our arms were sore the next day. Single player can be pretty fun, but it does get lonely after a while.

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Hi Just got a Wii about a week ago, and have managed to get to 600 odd points in Tennis. Couple of questions: i) The opposing players seem to hit the ball very slowly. Do they hit it faster/harder the more skill points they have? ii) Is there any way of forcing the Wii to give you higher skilled opponents, or they do just keep going up the higher your skill level? iii) If that is the case, at what skill level does the game start getting really fast? Thx!

Top Spin 3

Compete against the pros with Top Spin 3. Play online or offline to rise in the ranks against current top ranked professional players. This is a visually and physically realistic tennis experience. Using next generation technology, gameplay and graphics, Top Spin 3 features dynamic weather changes, evolutionary player visuals and comprehensive online offerings. With a unique user-generated component, you can also use new player creator features that include free-form body sculpting, makeup and tattoos.

Create matches online and test your skills against friends or other ranked players around the world

User Ratings and Reviews

1 Star Very disappointed in Top Spin 3
Overall this game was a huge disappointment! The graphics were poor and the game was boring. I wanted to sell this game after playing it just a couple of times. I’ll think twice befor purchasing a new game without checking out the reviews.

5 Stars Finally A Game that Im not frustrated with.
I love love Topspin 3,it awesome and easy to control.The graphic are out of this world love it love it.I love everything about this game. The control is easy for me and maybe for not everybody else( patience people patience). The weather love how changes etc….. The problem I have people in the stand here not calling the person I create it name at all like other tennis game I remember. I wish they would give alot of different worlds name so the people in the stands can call that name out like real tennis games.

4 Stars Fun game but needs something else
Don’t think about comparing this game with WiiTennis (that one that comes with the sports bundle). TopSpin3 was supposed to be more like a PS3 game with higher quality graphics and gameplay.

I’ve been playing it for a month or so. Overall it’s been really fun but sometimes it’s a bit hard to ‘get into’ the game. There’s no skill level option, what made my wife hate it after the second day, and the training/tutorial session is nothing more than instructions that you can find in the manual.

There’s a lack of freeplay like training, doubles and online challenges.

Soundtrack are a bit annoying too but not a big deal.

3 Stars HIts & Miss
Finally a tennis game I can swing to with real players. It’s fun and a good workout (for one arm mostly). The only downside is that there is no career mode. I’d love for it to have had a create player mode where you take him/her from the bottom of the rankings to the top.

4 Stars some unfair reviews here
THIS IS NOT WII TENNIS. No, it is not the simple controls of wii sports tennis. This is much more realistic. True tennis fans and players will love how realistic it is (and true tennis fans and players hate how UNREALISTIC wii sports tennis is). There are a lot of unfair reviews here by people who didn’t spend any time with the game. YOU CAN hit drop shots, lobs, overheads, top spin, slice, slice serves etc. You can even go for risky serves that up the speed and position. It just takes practice. The use of the nunchuck is not a problem (I wish wii sports tennis uses the nunchuck, so you could actually get into proper position). Also, I see no reason why you couldn’t play left handed (someone said you can’t in another review). There is no setting for lefthanded players, b/c it’s not needed! Just switch hands. Some one complained about slow game play b/c of cut scenes of players after points: hit the B button and you skip them. You can even hit the B button and shake the controllers in different directions to show different emotions.

Reason for the 4 stars instead of five: no wi-fi (why was this left out!?), some retro players would be fun (Sampras, Agassi, McEnroe, Lendl, Graf, etc.), no NADAL?!, it’d be enhance play if there was an “attitude/confidence” meter or something (ie if you are getting your butt handed to you your attitude is down and you play worse, miss lines, etc… hit a winner/ace and you attitude/confidence goes up and you play better), and finally it’d be cool if there was commentators.

Short list: great game if you LOVE and PLAY TENNIS!

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Top Spin 3

Compete against the pros with Top Spin 3. Play online or offline to rise in the ranks against current top ranked professional players. This is a visually and physically realistic tennis experience. Using next generation technology, gameplay and graphics, Top Spin 3 features dynamic weather changes, evolutionary player visuals and comprehensive online offerings. With a unique user-generated component, you can also use new player creator features that include free-form body sculpting, makeup and tattoos.

Create matches online and test your skills against friends or other ranked players around the world

User Ratings and Reviews

3 Stars HIts & Miss
Finally a tennis game I can swing to with real players. It’s fun and a good workout (for one arm mostly). The only downside is that there is no career mode. I’d love for it to have had a create player mode where you take him/her from the bottom of the rankings to the top.

4 Stars Fun game but needs something else
Don’t think about comparing this game with WiiTennis (that one that comes with the sports bundle). TopSpin3 was supposed to be more like a PS3 game with higher quality graphics and gameplay.

I’ve been playing it for a month or so. Overall it’s been really fun but sometimes it’s a bit hard to ‘get into’ the game. There’s no skill level option, what made my wife hate it after the second day, and the training/tutorial session is nothing more than instructions that you can find in the manual.

There’s a lack of freeplay like training, doubles and online challenges.

Soundtrack are a bit annoying too but not a big deal.

4 Stars some unfair reviews here
THIS IS NOT WII TENNIS. No, it is not the simple controls of wii sports tennis. This is much more realistic. True tennis fans and players will love how realistic it is (and true tennis fans and players hate how UNREALISTIC wii sports tennis is). There are a lot of unfair reviews here by people who didn’t spend any time with the game. YOU CAN hit drop shots, lobs, overheads, top spin, slice, slice serves etc. You can even go for risky serves that up the speed and position. It just takes practice. The use of the nunchuck is not a problem (I wish wii sports tennis uses the nunchuck, so you could actually get into proper position). Also, I see no reason why you couldn’t play left handed (someone said you can’t in another review). There is no setting for lefthanded players, b/c it’s not needed! Just switch hands. Some one complained about slow game play b/c of cut scenes of players after points: hit the B button and you skip them. You can even hit the B button and shake the controllers in different directions to show different emotions.

Reason for the 4 stars instead of five: no wi-fi (why was this left out!?), some retro players would be fun (Sampras, Agassi, McEnroe, Lendl, Graf, etc.), no NADAL?!, it’d be enhance play if there was an “attitude/confidence” meter or something (ie if you are getting your butt handed to you your attitude is down and you play worse, miss lines, etc… hit a winner/ace and you attitude/confidence goes up and you play better), and finally it’d be cool if there was commentators.

Short list: great game if you LOVE and PLAY TENNIS!

2 Stars I’d rather play Wii sports tennis.
I have been playing tennis for 25 years, and this is not a very good simulation of the real game. The controls are awkward and are not timed correctly, especially when tossing the ball for a serve. There is no left handed option, and no left handed players. There are only 16 players to choose from, and you can not create your own player. I’ve given up on this game and gone back to Wii Sports tennis, and the real thing when weather permits.

1 Star Very disappointed in Top Spin 3
Overall this game was a huge disappointment! The graphics were poor and the game was boring. I wanted to sell this game after playing it just a couple of times. I’ll think twice befor purchasing a new game without checking out the reviews.

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