Racquet Sports with Camera - Nintendo Wii

First off, I did not have a lot of luck with the camera. The silhouette frame it uses to calibrate makes you stand about three feet from the camera to fit and you have to position it manually. Then you have to stay in that position for best results. It seems impossible to select any menu option except the one you start with since you only seem to have "swipe up" and swipe down" which doesn't seem to allow you to move to another option, but just select what it is already on. However, you can pick up the wiimote and use it for menu selection in camera mode. Next, it seemed like I had to swing high up over my shoulder for it to see me swing. However, I learned that by making small forearm movements like I discuss below with the wiimote, you can have some fun playing this with decent accuracy and win games, but you have to stand in the spot about three feet from the camera where you did the silhouette outline calibration and not move from there. So, that takes away from the fun and I can not get any real exercise from it.With the wiimote, you can not make natural swings. If you do, the sensor goes off screen and come back at the last second and it seems like there is a split second delay or late swing,,,or no swing at all. How I got good at it was to just swing from the elbow and it timed and moved perfectly for the most part and I started winning the games.Although they give you instructions on attaching the nunchuck, it doesn't seem to make a difference, since the game tries to position you in the ideal court position automatically. I can't say I care for this, because it makes the game a lot less interesting when the best way to play is stand, or possibly sit, still and flick the wiimote from your elbow. I begin to wonder if it would be better without the motion plus wiimote.It is fun playing the different kind of racquet sports in the different exotic locales. I liked playing beach tennis on the Bali beach. However, it was much less than i hoped for and not much exercise at all. Kinect Sports tennis on the xbox 360 was my best experience in gameplay, although much more repetitive. Wii Sports tennis was also repetitive, but also had the player optimally position themselves automatically. With the Kinect Sports, you had to run around chasing the ball and could make real swings and get some exercise. I wish Microsoft had made a game with this variety for kinect back before developers got contemptuously sloppy in kinect game making.P.S. What is with the bandana I unlocked. I thought it would look cool, but why does the mii wear it over his nose and mouth like some kind of bandit outlaw, LOL.

Amazon.com reviewers have a bad habit of rebutting reviews they don't agree with or even posting their customer help issues here(I call it speaking out of southern orifices)! :-) It's most helpful to potential purchasers if people focus on reviewing the product with specifics.I made the mistake of not checking my favorite sites (gamespot, ign) for extra reviews. If I'd read [...] (gave a 4/10), I would have waited to test it out once it got to the used pile at GameCrazy. I really wanted to love this game.First, I should give a little background. I got this for my and my 10yr old's birthday. We're not technologically challenged. I like building my own PCs and using my Macbook Pro. My son likes PC games, too (along with consoles). The guys would be annoyed to know they're being sniped by a little kid with his online games :) In other words, we usually know what we're doing with electronics. We chose this game because we really enjoyed Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort. I still play them every chance I get. Neither did we chose this game to get realistic tennis. I can do that with Topspin, Grand Slam, or Virtua. My son plays in 'real life'. What I was hoping for was an expansion of the cute, fun tennis in Wii Sports and different environments to enjoy while playing Ping Pong and trying out the other games. But no amount of great graphics will help if the controls are lame.I could overlook NOT being able to use our Miis. I took off stars only due to the controls. Wii Sports & Sports Resort had incredible controls, very accurate. If I hadn't played such well-designed games, I wouldn't have much to compare it to and just might like it. We calibrated often, set lefty for my son, righty for me. But nothing helped. I would swing left (as shown in the tutorial), and my avatar would swing right. I was hoping the precision would at least be in the ballpark. But it's true that I could get more shots with a well-timed shake of the controller, instead of an actual swinging motion. If you're used to precision and accuracy from playing the Wii Sports series, you may not even be able to tolerate the game. If you're not used to those precise controls, you may really love the game. You have to consider your specific set of experiences in deciding for or against this game. We did not have any problems using the camera that's included for single player, Wii-moteless playing.My son started frustrated with this game, but began adjusting his timing to their version of timing. He likes unlockables and the environments, so our rating kind of met in the middle. The jury's still out on whether or not we'll trade this for credit. Since it's our game, it's going to be up to him. Since games are a great way for moms and sons to bond, I'll play if he asks. But I'll stick to Wii Sports Resort for the most fun!

If you are looking for realism, stop here and look elsewhere. If you are looking for fun with some challenge, then you have found the right place. Very easy to get started. I have not tried the camera, as that does not interest me. The wimote with motion plus really gives you a whole lot of control and acuarcy. I also use the thrustmaster tennis rackets. They are a little strange when playing ping pong, but work just fine anyway. If you are going to play with more than one person, make sure you have lots of room, with everyone swinging away. Again, if you want a fun, but moderately challenging game this is it.

This game comes with its own little camera that plugs into your Wii to track your movements as you play. Overall, the experience is very similar to other tennis games for the Wii. Someone who is young and still moves very fast might find more of a difference between this and the built-in Wii sensor that we did. Nice though.

I got this for my 2 girls. One is into tennis, as she plays it in school. They maybe played this game twice, and didn't even used the included camera to play, as it only works with 1/player.One of the reason maybe the fact that I got the Kinect for them at the same time. They played Kinect Sports before playing this and basically said they would rather play Kinect then the Wii(which is good cus they sweat up a strom playing)... so our Wii is collecting more dust than before.. *sigh... it was good while it lasted(actually haven't played it for over 6/months).... I'll keep the Wii for the smaller kids when they come over.. :)

The game works great and arrived on time.