GI.net: "Game Party 2 for the Nintendo Wii consists of 11 rumpus room and backyard party games suitable for children, parents and grandparents. Surprisingly easy to pick up and play, the game options include: Beanbags, Darts, Hoop Shoot, Horseshoes, Lawn Darts, Ping Cup, Puck Bowling, QB (Quarterback) Challenge, Skill Ball, Shuffleboard and Trivia. Created for solo as well as team play, some games can accommodate up to as many as four teams and 16 players. The learning curve is low; many games are familiar and require little skill to score well.
Each game has a leader board, and high scores are tracked. Players can create profiles and customize their avatars with a variety of body pieces-parts (for example, heads, tops and bottoms). Players need not create profiles to play, but apart from the ease of getting your name up on the leader board with a single click instead of spelling out your name each time, players using profiles will be awarded tickets based on scores or results for some games. These tickets can be accumulated and redeemed for alternative playing equipment, such as different colored lawn darts and player pieces-parts.
There are four game modes: Best-Of, which can be set to 3, 5, 7 or 9 games (some games are limited to only two players); Loser Go Home (3 to 16 players), in which the player with the worst score is eliminated; Winner Moves On (5 to 16 players), in which only the player with the best score from each game moves on to the next round; and Head to Head, which can be used for any of the games."
Sherry Baldwin: "I was kind of excited at the beginning of the week when we planned out three features for the current generation of home consoles… That was until I was told my point of view was to pick the worst Wii games released to help potential consumers avoid any “shovelware” as our editor put it. Thankfully there are a lot of quality games on the little white box that many consider to be a game changer in the industry. However we’re not focusing on the great titles the Wii has to offer."
Mario Galaxy Came out within the first 1 1/2 years and sp did tons of titles, but I get what you mean.
"Honorable Mention:
Literally Too Many To List (Six more released while you were reading this.)"
LOL, nice.
i loled on that one
Literally Too Many To List (Six more released while you were reading this.)"
best statement i ever heard..
I can't argue with most of those titles, because I never even heard of most of them. LoL
Game Party 2 is one of those titles. From lackluster mini-games to monotonous controls you'll be hard pressed to figure out why you decided to pick up this title.
David Simpson writes: "Wii Sports is arguably the best Wii game created so far and it seems that every mini-game collection since has attempted to catch lightning in a bottle once again. Midway's More Game Party isn't Wii Sports, but it so desperately wants to be that it's quite embarrassing.
More Game Party features ten games (Beanbags, Darts, Hoop Shoot, Horseshoes, Lawn Darts, Ping Cup, Puck Bowling, QB Challenge, Skill Ball and Shuffleboard) that have largely been ignored by the gaming world thus far, but after playing them here I just can't imagine why EA hasn't snapped up the Horseshoes licence or produced a Puck Bowling game. Most of these games are set in a pseudo-fairground environment where you aim at targets in arcade machine-like booths; however, none provide the excitement that you can gain from throwing a hoop around a pole to win a pink teddy bear."
