Customer Reviews

Summer Sports Paradise

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(12)
1 star:		(9)

 

 

There are so many great games for the Wii and they have been selling so well that it has attracted less reputable companies to throw together crap as fast as they can in order to get in on the action. This is one of those games.

Right when we started playing the poor quality of the menus and navigation were a warning of the bad gameplay that was to come. We started with basketball (a game of HORSE) but there were no indicators of aiming or how hard you needed to 'throw' the ball. It seemed like it was completely random. Next was horseshoes, which suffered from the same problems. We tried two more minigames before immediately taking it back to the store for a refund which, surprisingly, we got.

This game is horrible. Nintendo would do well to at least require some minimal level of quality screening before they allow game developers to use their branding.

Please don't buy this.

Our family loves Wii Sports and hoped that Summer Sports Paradise Island would deliver similar fun and exercise, but we were sadly disappointed. First up was Badminton where the view starts from behind the server, and then switches to a single-screen distant aerial view (or the same camera angle you started at from the serving side) where one feels little involvement in the action and has minimal apparent control over returns.

Volleyball is similarly boring, and also features bizarre design oversights like servers that appear to miss the ball completely, yet still send it over the net. In most, if not all of the games, one gets precious little sense that what you do with the Wii Remote makes that much difference in your success. Forget the curve balls in bowling, placed shots in tennis, stroke control in golf, etc., that you are used to with the excellent Wii Sports package.

The interface is somewhat cumbersome, and ridiculously long transitions during game play detract from the action (for example, between every point in Badminton you must watch the players saunter to their positions, then enjoy a full blue screen with the game logo, and finally return to the court, where you now have to press A before serving!).

The overall sense one gets with this package is that insufficient development funds were allocated for the project, leaving the consumer with a game that feels like it hit the market a year or two before the far superior Wii Sports.

I just got my WII system and I love it. I have tried many games out and have been very happy, but this game is AWFUL!!! On golf you can't control the swing or the speed of the ball and horseshoes I couldn't even get close... Graphics are good but not enough for me to keep the game. I went back to the store and sold it back to them the very next day.

This game contains lawn darts, horseshoes, volleyball, badminton, mini-golf, croquet, driveway basketball & beach side basketball.
I played w/a friend which helped, but only to laugh at it.
Pros:
-Good organized menus, choices of length of play & easy-hard level of AI
-9 Gorgeous mini golf holes in Aztec, haunted, Congo, Wild west, medieval, area 51, prehistoric themes. if these were real, I'd pay $20 to play a game easily of those 9 holes.
-Knows how hard/soft you're flicking wii remote in volleyball, mini golf, basketball
-Volleyball responds to perfect timing to character & ball distance almost like real life
-Lawn darts uses wind as variable
-Good sound effects even of things going by in the background
-Basketball has easy control
-You can "taunt" your friends by hitting the d pad which will make random cute sounds on THEIR remote to throw off their concentration.
-Options for left or right handed people
-you can hit the shuttle in badminton left/right/up/down swings

Cons:
-Lack of clear instructions or practice play, only 1 window quick text instructions for each game.
-Camera angles in badminton & volleyball is high in the sky which makes it hard to know when ball/shuttle is coming to you. GAMES SHOULD ALWAYS BE FIRST PERSON LIKE WII SPORTS OR VERY CLOSE THIRD. THAT'S THE SECRET.
-Volleyball timing even on easy MUST BE PERFECT, must swing+B to pass & swing up & down perfect timing to characters to spike & hard to see when ball is at the right spot.
-your characters will hit out of bounds in volleyball & badminton, considering it doesn't say you are able to aim & you hae to be perfect to not miss, how do you get it out of bounds???
-Badminton swings are hard to choose from since shuttle so small, it's hard to get timing right.
-Bad drawing/cartoon details on players, dark/bland/washed out coloring
-With lack of enough background (no audience to see or hear), the games feel a bit slower/dull then they should.

Golf - That's the only good thing of this game was the mini golf course design. Almost all the wholes had cool things moving, or had a timing edge to it. Only the congo one was boring like any mini golf course today.

I played this 2 separate times on the same wii, once w/friend who rented from one place & that disc had MANY glitches like basketball (we could never get 1 basket) & bad camera angles in mini golf that would always point you in the wrong way & load times in golf so slow, I think a year went by (the disc was spotless). The next time I played alone rented from another place & w/AI I won easily in basketball & mini golf & the load times were quick.

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It's not wii sports, but most of these games are actually really fun...with the exception of badminton. I do wish there was a practice mode...and used miis. But we simply cannot stop playing. It's an excellent Party Game!

i got this game hopeing that the vollyball would be fun. i just got it last night and was all excited to play. i put it in the wii set up a profile and thought i was ready to play. i tried to start the game but it said all players not ready. YOU MUST HAVE 2 OR MORE PLAYERS just to play the game. and if that wasnt disapointing enough EACH PLAYER MUST HAVE THEIR OWN REMOE for some of the games. i think it might be an okay game if you got someone to play with but it isn't a 1 person game, there's no pracice or anything a single player can do. i am very dissipointed.

I love Wii Sports and thought this would be a great game with additional sports to enjoy. Unfortunately, I soon discovered that what you did with the controller had virtually nothing to do with what actually happened on the screen. For example, my results in horseshoes were identical whether I actually tried or just did random movements with the controller. Even though I got it at a bargain price, it was a complete waste of money. There are other games out there with much better control of your sports movements. Wii Sports Resort is one great one that comes to mind. Don't waste your money.

I recently purchased this game and love it! Only issue I had was how I could use two remotes. finally figured it out. Need easy layman terms to explain how to set it up for us 50 and over!
However i love the game of mini-golf! Volleyball is fun but dont care for the camera movements at times.
All in all, this game is a must for your collection of sport games!

The game has a couple of different games. Volley ball is hard and not much fun due to the repetitiveness of the controls and play. The others (horseshoes, mini golf, lawn darts) are fun and just take a bit of getting use to. They are enjoyable. The game lacks the use of the miis and the control are at times sporadic. Overall i think its fun and it gives a little more diversity to the sports that you can play on the wii. I have been waiting a while for horseshoes and i am glad someone finally put it out. Granted the game could be better but take what ya can get for now.

As a slight overweight 60+ female, I wanted to lose weight without having to exercise. The WII system seemed like the perfect way to do that so I bought the package with Sports. Further research at Amazon.com led me to purchase Summer Sports. It is better than I thought, is fun, and gets me to "exercise" by playing games (horseshoes, croquet, badminton, etc.) Much better than tedious and boring exercise that I find difficult to commit to.