

Badminton claims you can swing the Remote in a variety of ways and the game will produce your motion. The game doesn't give you a heads-up on this matter, which can lead to confusion when you first start a match. When you're playing by yourself with computer teammates, sometimes you control your digital helper and sometimes you don't. Oh, and you can't play a game by yourself to practice - you always have to have at least one other human or AI player in the game. Making matters worse, the computer AI will land bulls-eyes all-too often.

There's no way to judge the power of your toss. It doesn't feel like the player has any control over their throw. Horse Shoes and Lawn Darts suffer a similar fate. The result is you'll miss almost every shot you try for, but it's entirely possible to land a swish by just randomly swinging the Remote. Does the speed of my swing affect my shot? I don't know, the game doesn't tell me. Besides the fact that this game makes you look ridiculous, the real problem with the basketball controls is that it's impossible to aim your shot or control its strength. The move only slightly approximates the act of shooting a real basketball, but very accurately recreates the act of looking like an idiot. Then you push forward and let go of the B button. To shoot, you pull your arm back so the A button is facing the ceiling and hold down the B button. You can dribble by bouncing the Remote up and down, achieving absolutely nothing. The Remote is held with the A button facing away from the player, with the index finger on the B button. This exercise's control scheme is one of the most obtuse uses of motion control we've encountered in our time reviewing Wii games. You can play Horse, Around the World, or Shot Clock.
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Here's how they break down: Basketball - terrible Badminton - terrible Volleyball - terrible Horse Shoes - terrible Lawn Darts - terrible Mini-golf - okay Croquet - okay Basketball isn't played as a full game, or even a one-on-one match. All of the mini-games use motion controls with varying degrees of failure. And the only person left in the office that night was the janitor, so they had him do it. But it seems developer Digital Embryo spent its time on the window dressing, and then remembered at the last minute it had to program some gameplay. The environments have been rendered well and even the menus and interface are slick. Paradise Island is a pretty nice looking place.
