Customer Reviews

Big Beach Sports

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(11)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

This game shows it's commitment w/overall intuitive controls considering the restriction of the wii ability & the best ideas: as little players as possible so feels more 1st person & when there's only 2, you control them both. it has different levels of play (have to be unlocked through play), you can decide how many points/goals to win a game, the length of time of a game for all the games & other options. There is a skill point system overall tally for each of the 6 sports to earn you to higher difficulties & stickers like awards like birdie blitz & soaring eagle for disc golf, palms of steel for volleyball, long ranger for soccer, enforcer for bocce (hitting the jack). You can decide left/right handed, good amount of customization of your characters. Each time they win, they never speak, so they do an old school 90s dance, one even looks like from Rerun (show What's Happening). The only sounds are boring background looped music beat & cheering crowd which helps a lot though wish there was more. There are also sounds from the remote, say every time you hit the volleyball.
Volleyball - you control both players on your team, good control, good timing, one of the best volleyball on wii considering the constraint of control, how hard you swing actually makes a difference.
Disc golf - good controls, good aim, 3 different ways to throw, painfully dull courses Super monkey ball's disc golf has better course.
Bocce - good control/aim, how hard you swing makes no difference, much faster & more interesting then slow moving shuffleboard on game party.
Cricket - like baseball on wii sports, good controls, I had no problems, how hard you swing makes a difference, I found it pretty good, one of the best & not too slow watching the players move on their own after you throw/bowl or at bat.
Football - hard to learn control scheme since not as intuitive, little buggy as well, though great idea only 2 players per game & cute
Soccer - four players on each team, you don't control the goalie, just a lot of passing & deciding when to shoot for goal, boring.
None of these will get your heart rate going like wii sports except on a arcade game level.
I think this title went in the right direction, but needed more polishing & new wii motion plus should really help things next year for the new titles. Adding the wii board as an option for sport games should also be an option.

I just bought this game. This game is simply astounding, way to go to the company that made this. Beach Volleyball and Cricket are my favorites so far. Amazing Volleyball dynamics, you feel right in the game. Mostly I have played this game as a single player but when my friends have come over they love it as well. I think the part that is better than Wii Sports more challenging, It's an excellent Party Game! It's more interactive than Wii sports. I strongly recommend this game, and at $30 cheaper than most Wii games and certainly more fun!

So I bought this game only because of the disc golf. I dislike the other games anyway so in fairness this review is about the use of the disc golf game not the other games in this package.

The controls could not be more straight forward, you throw as you would think and you just hold down the A button, judging the distance and power take some getting used to, but so goes real life. The harder you throw in reality the harder the simulation throws, even tilting the controler at an angle makes a little tiny difference on right and left gliding dics.

The only problems I have found is there is only one course with 18 holes. I can't wait for a multi-course disc game to come out.

Now my pervious review stated that you could not flick throw, I was wrong. This weekend I got drunk and pressed a button and I was flick throwing and hammer throwing. So leave your character in the hand you play with and press the (1) button. Once for flick and twice for hammer. It works pretty well. For right handed players (which I am) a back hand will fade right and a flick will fade left, a hammer goes straight.

I give this game 4 stars because nothing is perfect and it's a lot of fun. Have your TV up high and stand up.

We rented this game before buying, and I'm really glad that we did. Our family really loves playing live volleyball and other beach games. We were pretty disappointed.

First we went to create our character. The graphics for creating the character made it difficult to understand what menu items went to what.

After taking forever to create our character (which, no matter what you did to it looked like a fat, football player), we headed to the volleyball game. The instructions were adequate. We started the game, and it was okay, but not very physical. It was probably the best of all the games we tried. The music that played throughout had a beach feel, but became verrry annoying. We ended up turning the volume way down.

We tried cricket. Aside from not understanding the rules because, lets face it, I'm American, I had a big problem with the game responding to my commands. I would swing, and the game would not recognize my swing. I would throw (excuse me, bowl) the ball and the game would not respond very well. Compared with Wii Sports golf and baseball, cricket was very slow and clunky.

We had the same type of experience with the frisbee golf.

We tried soccer. I think soccer would be a fun arcade-type game. It has a lot of different moves that seemed fun with the remote, but it was not much of a physical game.

We were so frustrated with the other games that we didn't even try them.

Overall I would say that the games weren't realistic, but I could understand how an experienced gamer might like some of the games for arcade-type play. We wanted physical activity. I think we'll buy a different game for that.

The Wii Big Beach Sports game has given us many hours of entertainment. We love football and soccer the most. We still haven't quite figured out the rules for Cricket! The Disc Golf is a little to easy. Overall I'm sure most family's will find this game enjoyable.

This set of games is perfectly priced and all are easy to play and yet provide a certain amount of depth that can provide a competitive challenge for those so desiring some competition with their friends or family members.

The game starts off with providing the (now) standard function of creating and customizing a character for yourself(though this is not necessary as there are a selection of stock characters to use).

Then it is right to the Game selection menu. With a very eclectic offering of sports games all played at the Beach. Bocce, Cricket, Volleyball, DiscGolf, Soccer and American Football.

Each of these games has had some of the rules simplified or streamlined for easy and quick play. Football has taken some ideas from the backyard varient. In that it is 2 on 2, and you and your teammate alternate as Quarterback. There are no Extra Points, but an Interception counts as points for the team whom caused it. Volleyball also scores points against the team whom does not return the ball, whether it was their serve or not.

Each game usually has a variety of easy to set up functions at the beginning as well as picking from Single play to multi-play. For example, you can set the Quarter and field lengths for Football. You can select between Traditional(furthest from jack goes) and Simple(set turn order) for Bocce.

Score or timed games (Soccer). # of holes for DiscGolf & # of sets for Volleyball.

The Wii controller setup is very straight forward and for the most part intuitive. For example, you flick the controller up to jump in the air in Volleyball, and thrust it down to spike the ball...just as you would for real. And Bocce uses the same forward motion as Bowling. Discgolf is exactly like throwing a frisbee. Cricket used the motions you would use in Baseball.

We rank this game quite highly in our family and friends game group, ranging in ages from 6 to 50+. There is a little something for everyone. And everyone will have a good time playing the games.

Kudos to the designers for offering games you would rarely see in a video game (speaking of Bocce, Disc Golf and Cricket). All of which are excellent versions of each.
Though I am a little confused about the inability to play as Teams in Bocce (its every man for himself in multiplayer). And the sameness of the holes in Discgolf was a little bit of a letdown.

Undocumented buttons and controls serve as a surprise in some of the games (like the ability to hit the ball back in one hit in Volleyball... and no instructions on what button combination will intercept the football...

Still, this should be a must buy for anyone looking for a unique collection of accessible and fun games for your parties and family gatherings.

Wait till you get into some multi-player Volleyball matches.

Could have been so much more!

The response timing is way off. I found it difficult to get the characters to do what I wanted them to do. On top of that, sometimes I was even confused at to what I was suppose to do.
I traded it in.

These games do not interact with your current MII. The response timing is way off. In comparion to WII Sports this is 1970s pong.

That was a bad buy! Awful controls..
I bought it online because it had volleyball, cricket, soccer.. looked interesting on paper but when I started playing it was just awful!! Controls where out of sync. All the games looked like they are already programmed to play, you dont even need to swing remote to play them. Its like watching an animated movie with remote in hand.. Don't waste money on this!!

I picked up this game because my wife wanted a Bocce game for the Wii. I picked this one, because it had a couple of other games that I thought I'd like. However, I was disappointed.

The Bocce game is probably the highlight of the game, play-wise. You can move your person side-to-side, and change angle (as you can in Wii Sports Resort's bowling), and vary your throw based on how hard you swing the Wiimote. Of all the games, this one seems to be the most refined towards it's subject matter.

Frisbee Golf isn't terrible. You have a bit of control over the Frisbee based on how hard you throw, and what direction you're facing in with regards to the wind. Once you get near the 'hole', it's almost impossible to miss, as the target extends upwards (meaning you can't throw it over the hole accidentally).

Gameplay for Cricket is fairly simplistic, similar to Baseball on Wii Sports. With only two types of generic swings, batting is a matter of timing and force. Actually, pitching is the same, but with even less ability to customize. Ball catching and throwing is largely automatic.

Soccer and Football are largely wastes of time, where the player is merely along for the ride. Soccer offers the ability to pass to the near player, pass to the furthest player, sorta shoot, and slide tackle. You can change which player you control, but there's not really any movement control. Football is similar: Your main input is the timing and strength of the pass, and making the receiver jump to catch it.

Volleyball was the game that I, personally, was hoping would be good, and is therefore the biggest disappointment to me. The control of this game is, in a word, pathetic. The first guy to touch the ball ALWAYS digs. The second guy ALWAYS sets. The third guy (actually, the first guy again) ALWAYS spikes or shoots. There is very little control to any of these actions. The game is mostly reduced to flicking the controller and waiting.


I realize this is a title full of mini-games. However, with these games, the potentially intuitive interface of the Wii has been reduced to something with all the creativity of button-mashing.

If I see this game in a $5 bin, I might buy it again. IMHO, for any price over that, it's just not worth it.