Customer Reviews

Rapala's Fishing Frenzy with Fishing Pole

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3 star:		(1)
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I bought this game and liked it immediately, but it is not without some small issues. It can be hard to learn how to drive the boat and to cast. Also, the reel attachment that came with the game broke after playing for a while. There are two screws that hold it together, and the plastic around them broke. Returned the game and bought a new one with no trouble. When you do learn how to cast and drive it is a great game and a lot of fun! The graphics are really wonderful and everyone gets caught up in the excitement when a fish is hooked. Overall, this is a great game, but a more sturdy rod and reel would be greatly beneficial.

This is a game for people who like fishing and miss it.It has tons of lures and tons of fish. It has a down side you have to unlock lakes and lures. Also when you cast you go under water were the lure is so you see what kind of fish you have hooked. (if you do hook one)The reel attachment broke reel soon!

I'm an avid fisherman and I was looking forward to playing this game during the winter months when 'cabin fever' sets in to appease my desire to be on the water. The experiences offered by this game fell short of my expectations, however.

I'm pretty experienced with video games, but trying to get this game to acknowledge a cast left me very frustrated. Thinking I originally had a defective game, I actually had to go on-line to find out how to do it! It was only after finding out how to cast that the cryptic instructions in the booklet finally made sense.

Gameplay is so-so. Graphics are very crude and blocky. There really isn't much skill involved to catch fish, so there's really not much challenge to the game. You just have to go through the motions one lake at a time and meet certain catch goals to unlock more lakes. You really have such limited control over casts and retrieves that it makes the whole experience very dumbed-down from real fishing.

In a nutshell, it's an OK game for awhile but can get boring quickly. As long as your hopes aren't too high, you'll probably have some fun with this game - especially the younger kids.

As other reviewers have pointed out, the casting tool is flimsy and not very functional. Fortunately, you can play the game without it!

This game is a lot of fun. the only issues that I had with it the directions were not very good. after contacting the company they instucted me how to use it. After that it was easy.

First of all, I only purchased the version without the rod/reel so I cannot attest to how sturdy it is. Although the instruction booklet may not tell you precisely how to cast, there is an in-game tutorial that tells you exactly how to do it so I'm not sure why some customers are having a hard time learning how to cast. My biggest complaint is trying to do the combos. Maybe I'm just slow, but it seems like unless you are the Flash it is impossible to complete combos in the game as the game seems to barely give you even a milisecond to do the right motion. If any previous customers have learned how to do this, please feel free to tell me how. I think the graphics are really good, at least considering that this is a game for Wii, and I love the environments.

I bought this game for my dad for Father's Day. He really liked. However, he's in his 60s and is not a hard-core gamer. He's not even a soft-core gamer. But in real life, he's one hell of a fisherman. Fishing games are all kind of boring and lame just by the nature of what they are. If you don't like fishing and / or don't like fishing games, then you will not like this game. All that said, I played the game myself and found it to be the best fishing game I've played yet, and I've been playing fishing games since Activision's 1980 release 'Fishing Derby' for the Atari 2600 console. Hardcore gamers will probably have problems with this game. Hardcore gamers are probably not playing a Wii though. And realistically, fishing games are not for hardcore gamers. As far as the Wii fishing rod goes, yes, it's cheap, yes, it will probably break. My dad's didn't break yet, but I would expect that it probably will. And we're not the kind of kids who make a routine out of breaking our toys.

We went to 4 stores and called around 6 more trying to find this game.Thank goodness I found it here.It came very fast and my grandson will not quit playing it.Thanks guys

We gave this to my Father-in-law as a gift and he can't put it down! He's been fishing most of his life but finds this fun and challenging as well. He couldn't be happier with the included 'rod' and the types of fish available.