- Brawl with Other Brains! The Wii sequel includes three multiplayer modes for up to eight players. You can also exchange training data with other players over WiiConnect24 and compete against their save data..
- Weigh Your Brain! With 15 new Activities that challenge your brain in single-player Test and Practice modes, Big Brain Academy Wii sees how you measure up in five categories: memory, analysis, number crunching, visual re, and quick thinking..
- Train with the Wii Remote! All Activities are designed around the Wii Remote's Pointer, so you can have fun learning from the comfort of your couch with one Wii Remote, or pass around two Wii Remotes for group competitions..
- Mii data compatible..
This rethinking of the popular Nintendo DS game will test players
brains with fun problems and allow people of any age to play
together. The Wii Remote controller's hands-on control makes
playing a cinch. Multiplayer versus and co-op play modes also
have been added, allowing players to use the title as a
brain-training exercise or a raucous party game. In split screen
two-player versus mode, the same puzzle problems will appear in a
different order -- The first player to get 12 correct answers
wins.
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The Wii sequel to Big Brain Academy for Nintendo DS includes
three multiplayer modes for up to eight players. Players also can
exchange student-record books with other players over
WiiConnect24 and compete against their save data. With 15 new
activities that challenge the brain in single-player Test and
Practice modes, Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree sees how players
measure up in five categories: Identify, Memorize, Analyze,
Compute and Visualize. All activities are designed around the Wii
Remote's pointer. Players can play solo with one Wii Remote, or
pass it around like a relay baton in group competitions.
Sample activities: The activities in Big Brain Academy: Wii
Degree are fun minigames with a ton of variety, and they're meant
to be played rapid-fire for a short time as players push their
brains to do more than they did the day before. Here are three of
the activities included in the game:
* Art Parts: In this Visualize activity, players must complete
the sample painting by stamping the missing pieces onto an
unfinished scene. When it becomes more difficult, Art Parts flips
the unfinished scene sideways or flips it upside-down.
* Balloon Burst: In this Compute activity, players must pop
balloons in rising numerical order. At its easiest, there are few
balloons shown at once. On a higher difficulty level, Balloon
Burst sends in more balloons, including some with negative
numbers.
* Fast Focus: In this Identify activity, players see a distorted
image that slowly returns to normal. Players must select what it
is as soon as they figure it out. As it grows more difficult,
Fast Focus starts with a more heavily distorted image, so it
takes longer to identify what it is.
How to progress through the game: When players start a new game,
they'll meet the whimsical Dr. Lobe, who will suggest that they
take on the Test mode challenge: playing all 15 activities that
span the five brainy categories. He'll tell players how big their
brain is based on how well they did and how fast they did it.
He'll encourage players to take the Test often and to use
Practice mode to beef up their skills in all 15 of the
activities. Practice mode also offers three difficulty levels for
each activity, and Dr. Lobe will award several medals for high
achievement in each one.
Multiplayer: Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree offers three ways for
groups to play:
* Mental Marathon: Speed through activities to buy more time to
stay in the game. Go it solo or as a team, but if anyone botches
an activity, the game is done (1-8 players, one Wii Remote).
* Mind Sprint: Form a team to compete against a system-controlled
competitor that "thinks" like a selected student record (1-4
players with one Wii Remote). Or separate into two teams (2-8
players with two Wii Remotes). The first side to complete a set
number of problems wins.
* Brain Quiz: Play game-show style with up to four teams that
compete in a total of 20 activities, since five extra activities
are available in this mode. (1-8 players, one Wii Remote)
Mii compatibility: Everyone who enrolls in the academy will
choose a Mii, which will walk down the school's hallway and pop
up during Wii Remote handoffs to help explain which teammate goes
next in multiplayer matches.
Wii Remote audio: Players will get encouragement and hear color
commentary from a "Wii Remote Coach" who speaks to the player
through the Wii Remote speakers.
WiiConnect24: In Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree, players can send
and receive student-record books full of brainy data. By
establishing WiiConnect24 ties with Wii Friends who own the game,
players can all see their academies affected in several fun ways:
* Compare distant students' test scores with those of the local
student body on the Student Scores board. Distant students'
records are shown as books.
* Compete against distant students' brains in Mind Sprint.
Players actually play against game-controlled competitors that
"think" based on brainy strengths and weaknesses in their student
records.
* The distant player's "Mii student" will walk the hallways with
the player's own student body. Players can make WiiConnect24
connections with many students, adding many Miis to their crowd.
Players are encouraged to send and receive each others' records
frequently, so that their academies have up-to-date results for
competition and comparison. In this way, individual academies can
join a personal network of schools and push each other to develop
their brains further.