I am curious as to which other games (besides Wii Sports) use controller movement to play. I am most interested in golf, bowling, and tennis games where swinging the Wiimote moves your character on screen.
Besides Wii Sports, which Sports games use Wiimote movement to play the game?
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Carnival games is a lot of fun and involves a lot of movement. If you like tennis, try Sega Superstars Tennis. Those are the first two that come to mind.
Madden ‘08 (football) uses the controller movement. Not sure about the others.
yeah sega made a tenis game with sonic and all those other losers… but im gona wait to see if mario tennis comes out on the wii any time soon
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games implements the Wiimote well. For example, in running games you move the nunchuk and remote up and down as if you were running; in rowing, you pull the remote and nunchuk to your chest and back as if you were rowing. It’s a great game to play with friends as it is a laugh watching each other.
by far mario and sonic is the most movement sports game…but if youre looking for more realistic sports it would be madden 08 for sure. mlb 2k8 is ok for movement but not much. go with madden for realism. M and S at the olympics for lots oh fun and tiredness
Sega superstars tennis
Red Steel (err, aiming sucks and sometimes sword fighting gets boring after 10 fights but i still think its a good game)
Medal of honor heroes 2
and
THE BIG ONE: Wariowares: Smooth moves or something like that.
check it out at http://www.gamestop.com search for wariowares in the wii section.
“I am most interested in golf,”
Well, Wii certainly has some variety there. There’s 2 years of Tiger Woods games, two years of Super Swing Golf, and fairly soon Wii Love Golf. All three feature “true swing” mechanics, but all three take slightly different approaches to them.
With Tiger, you hold a button, then do your entire swing. This creates a pretty realistic feel overall, but it will occasionally misread the end of your backswing as your foreswing, resulting in a very short shot. Putting controls a re tough to get a handle on. But its the only one of the three with realistic courses and costumes.
Super Swing Golf is the Wii version of the online PC game Albatross 18 (though SSG is completely offline). Sugary anime graphics, overgrown minigolf courses, and a lot of clothes to unlock (which give stat boosts). The swing mechanics work with clicking an on-screen button to tell the game you are ready to swing, setting yourself, then doing your backswing. You press and hold a button at the top of your backswing to lock in your power (bigger backswing = more power), then hold it as you do the foreswing. To get top power, you have to pause at the top of your backswing, which is quite annoying to most real golfers. The speed of your swing is pretty much not important, but the straightness matters a lot.
Wii Love Golf is taking a lot of style from SSG, but the swing mechnics are a bit different. As you swing back, an icon on a meter will indicate your club. Another ball icon will begin chasing your club up the meter. When they meet, that locks in the base power. Then the ball icon shoots the other way on the meter, and you have to time your swing with when it hits a certain point on the meter to hit full power. Swinging straight is again important, but swinging hard will give you extra distance. WLG will also have an online mode.
“bowling”
So far, the only other bowling game is Brunswick. Take Wii Sports Bowling, make it look pretty, and completely break the controls, and you have Brunswick.
“and tennis”
There’s a Sega Sonic Tennis game, but I haven’t heard much good about it. Top Spin 3 is on the way. And there’s Rockstar’s Table Tennis.