Big Family Games Review (Wii)

Posted by Mister-X on July 28th, 2009 at 03:53am

The Wii has entirely new genres of games. For example, there’s the mini-game collection that involves swinging the Wii Remote like a bat genre. There’s also the mini-game collection that involves swinging the Wii Remote like you’re throwing a ball genre. Big Family Games falls in the latter genre.

There are 24 games in Big Family Games, but just about all of them are variants of “throw something at something using an underarm throw.” None of them are remotely as entertaining as Wii Sports Bowling. There’s lawn darts, where you throw a dart at a big target; horseshoes, where you throw a horseshoe at a stick; bocce, where you throw a ball at another ball like in bowls; basketball, where you throw a ball at a hoop, and shuffleboard, where you push a puck to get it to land in a certain spot to score points. Each of these five games has variants which are counted as different games. Lawn darts, for example, has Dartball where you throw darts at a swinging target, and Waterdarts where you throw the dart at a target in a pool instead of on the lawn. These 15 games are the only ones available in single player, while the other 9 only show in multiplayer – I guess because the AI was harder to make for them.

Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Big Family Games.

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