GamingUnion.net: "Pub Darts is a bland game that tries to recreate darts on the Wii, and after giving it several chances, it does not succeed. The controls, plain and simple, don't feel accurate. The lack of basic components, such as an actual tutorial and feedback for the player, don't help the situation. The game's other hook, the pub atmosphere, feels empty and poorly executed. It becomes difficult to think of an audience that would enjoy this game, casual darts players have little incentive to master the controls, and experienced darts players are already playing real darts. Ultimately, Pub Darts is hard to recommend."
A true legend of a game comes to the Wii Shop Channel this week in form of an exclusive Virtual Console Hanabi release – Final Fantasy, the starting point into the best loved fantasy RPG series of all time, never released before in Europe in its original form. Available to download from WiiWare this week is a great game of Pub Darts – perfect for parties or for playing with friends.
Yeah, surely by now most people who'd want it have bought it for GBA/DS/iPhone/Any other format you care to mention...
And so the Wii Remote remains an unsuitable substitute for a dart once again. There will be more designs that try again in the future, but darts just may be one of those casual sports that never gets its due as a Nintendo video game in this generation.
Presentation - 5.0
Graphics - 4.0
Sound - 4.0
Gameplay - 3.5
Lasting Appeal - 5.0
Overall -
It's only 500 Points so you get what you pay for, but you'd almost rather Big Blue Bubble go back to add more content and up the price a few hundred points to give you more reason to play. Useless unlockable dart designs, new games, something. You're better off spending the money on a cheap dart board or, failing that, a few boxes of sharp pencils to throw at the wall.
youch..
Or better yet, but a dart board. I'm pretty sure they only cost a few bucks, and when you're done with the board you can throw the darts just about anywhere.
Wow, there be some bad control issues here.