Celebrity Sports Showdown

by Electronic Arts

Product Features

• Versus or co-op play
• Up to 4 players at once
• Create customized tournament
• 12 outdoor sports games - Beach Volleyball, Inner-Tubing, Wild Water Canoeing, Hurdle Derby, Slalom Showdown, Cliff Hangers, Smash Badminton, Rapid Fire Archery, Joust Duel, Curling, Arena Dodgeball, an Air Racers
• 10 celebrities - Fergie, Avril Lavigne, LeAnn Rimes, Keith Urban, Nelly Furtado, Paul Pierce, Mia Hamm, Kristi Yamaguchi, Reggie Bush, and Sugar Ray Leonard

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B001DZDU9O
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 20, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,697 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Celebrity Sports Showdown Wii

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of the better sports mini game besides Nintendo's, December 2, 2008

By 

LanaFire (NY) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Celebrity Sports Showdown (Video Game)

I'm glad I rented this & didn't assume it was shovelware.
Ok, you got your 12 sports & easy to understand menu system. The loading times aree pretty quick & you have the ability to hit A & skip EVERYTHING & ANYTHING you want such as the AI playing. The physics for mini games are well done, better then most, the instructions are detailed & easy to understand w/drawings & text. The scoring is very detailed to every aspect such as the world's best time, most jumps, most points, at the end of each game, etc. You also have a records area for the best for each aspect of each game for the best players. You get 10 celebrities (get quick text bio when selected) & 15 wannabes (silly costume characters), 9 of which are locked until you beat levels in the game. There are no different abilities for any of them nor are there any sound bites or any talking from any of the characters during the menu or in play. You have 9 "doors" for each character to go through in the solo tourney & each level has you go through 3 random games x 3 for supreme winner over all the other characters. When you win, you get a nighttime celebration (the only thing you can't skip, but it's sweet.) The tournament can also be played multiplayer. You can also play free play, in which you can choose the games either solo or multiplayer & choose the level of the AI: easy, normal or hard.
As another said, this can be played with just the wii remote, but since during play you will have directional changes, etc. it's much more playable & intuitive with the nunchuck.
Solo Mode:
Beach Volleyball - camera is far, but you always control BOTH characters at the same time. Can bump, set, spike & block spikes with wii swings & A button.
Inner-Tubing - tile wii mote to steer, lift up to jump, collect stars for points, jump over mines & pull down to slam on top of opponents to get their points.
Wild Water Canoeing - shake nunchck paddles one side, shake the wii mote the other (no nunchuck = shake & A & B buttons) go down center of waterfalls for bonus speed & avoid many rocks.
Hurdle Derby - wii tilt steer the horse, (2) to jump & shake up/down for speed.
Slalom Showdown - hold wii mote like joystick to steer, (B) to tuck/speed, miss gates = penalty time, go up ramps & lift wii mote to do tricks on them.
Cliff Hangers - move with nunchuck, but faster to flip wii mote to jump & (B) to grab wall, has mines, things that fall, water balloons.
Smash Badminton - like wii tennis, control both players at the same time.
Rapid Fire Archery - Hold (B) pull back & release launch at far away targets. Easy since you can see the aim as arcing line.
Joust Duel - like fencing w/nunchuck to move, (Z) to jump, (B) to block/parry & (A) as super hit when meter is up & shake to regain balance.
Curling - sensitive to how hard you swing, has also bombs to destroy your opponents puck as your puck, heavy ones & bumpers.
Arena Dodgeball - far away cam, but you move with nuchuck, swing to left/right when no ball to dodge fast, w/ball you wing to throw (it aims for you), (B) to duck or move remote to duck/roll even when have a ball. Also haas bomb balls & shield balls as well as walls that go up/down.
Air Racers - you fly a jet through narrow cannon using wii mote tilt, with mines, big blown colorful floating thins to avoid & fly through rings for speed. You get missles to fire in front of you with (B) & mines to drop behind you with (A) & so do your opponents so there's a lot of firing going on.
Inner-Tubing, Wild Water Canoeing, Hurdle Derby, Slalom Showdown, Cliff Hangers & Air Racers have 3 different courses each.
This game isn't perfect, but it's one of the better ones, you can tell they put real time & effort in this with the menu choices & the choice of how to use the controls (very intuitive) as well as add arcade things to add to the challenge & avoid dullness.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best Dodgeball game on any console, November 9, 2008

By 

D. Abustan - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Celebrity Sports Showdown (Video Game)

As far as party games go, this title, and Carnival Games are the ones I'm playing the most right now. The celebrity factor is pretty cool - I think Avril Lavigne and Fergie are the ones you'll know the most.

The dodgeball game is wicked - definitely the best of the set. You will need a Nunchuk though. It plays without one, but the controls are much better if you have one handy. All in all, it's has a pretty good set of mini-games - the best ones are Dodgeball, Curling, and Volleyball.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly Great game, December 30, 2008

By 

B. Lee - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Celebrity Sports Showdown (Video Game)

I wasnt expected much when I bought this for $10 during Christmas on amazon. Turned out to be one of my best multipler wii games. I got it as a white elephant gift and then got to play it after with family and friends. Let me tell you, the dodgeball game in this is one of the best and most fun games I have played in a long time. Honestly, I would have been happy with the game if it was "Celebrity Dodgeball Showdown." Also, the other sport games were not so bad as well. They give you a chance to mix it up alittle, but in the end dodgeball is a game you could play with friends for hours at a time and really get into it. I highly recommend this game for some good ole multipler matchups. Even for $30 i still say this game is worth it.