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Video Games > Game Consoles > Item 54
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We Ski
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Nintendo Wii
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ESRB Rating:
Everyone
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List Price: $19.99
$17.83
At Amazon
on 3-7-2010.
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Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism
Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars
As an avid skier, I was excited for a long time knowing that this game and Wii fit were coming out. Perhaps my mistake was that I first tried out Wii Fit, which includes an excellent slalom race mode which not only looks at your left-right balance, but also at your forward aft (especially for speed control). I then hurried to open my new copy of Wii Ski, expecting to get the same, but with more challenges, more depth, and a whole mountain to explore. Boy, I can't hide my disappointment: instead of adapting the same control scheme from Wii Fit, the balance board support seems like an afterthought. Your movements on the balance board roughly translate into left and right, not as fluently as on Wii fit, but THERE IS NO FORE/AFT SUPPORT ! In other words, it doesn't matter if you lean forward or back, crouch, wedel, carve, etc. (things that the balance board can actually track), you only get left or right. You use a button for plowing (board could have easily detected that), a button for wedling. Worse of all, you have no speed control from the balance board. In fact, the game is excruciatingly slow even when you're barreling down the mountain. To get any speed at all, you have to use both nunchuck and wiimote as poles, but it feels like cross-country skiing. I got a ton of exercise just swinging them to get to a crawling speed going straight down a black diamond. What gives? I don't expect a real ski simulator, but I expected much better use of the balance board.
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We Ski
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Price: $17.83
Updated on 3-7-2010.
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