Sports Champions 2 is an improvement on its first iteration as a Move controller sports game that was available on 'day one' of the Move launch. It offers six activities:, Golf, Tennis, Bowling, Skiing, Archery, and Boxing. The game is a good buy if you own a Move controller and it's at it best with FOUR. The controls don't always work right, like the turning in skiing or hits in tennis, making the game very frustrating at times but the experience is generally good. The game is at its most immersive and gets you the maximum amount of fun on events such as Ski and Boxing when used with 2 Move controllers for a single player and 4 (FOUR) controllers if you are playing against another human. Not too many of use own 4 Moves but we were able to organize a 4-controller event by inviting in a friend who didn't own SC2 but happened to have 2 controllers of his own.
Golf and bowling work by doing the motions you would expect when golfing or bowling. In golf you can practice swings to get an idea of power and direction and you could aim and add spin to the ball in bowling.
In Tennis your avatar does the running and you only need to worry about serving and hitting the ball at the right time. Hitting the ball every time and controlling where it goes takes practice.
Archery works like shooting arrows in a shooting gallery. You grab an arrow on your back with the controller, and shooting in a way more like a gun, than accounting for the arch of a real arrow. You could use two controllers, but it is mostly the same as using one.
Skiing, by far the most intense of the simulations, works by using the controllers for turning, using the poles, and for hitting if you can get close enough. With one controller, you turn by pointing in the direction you want to go, and with two you move one controller higher and the other lower in the direction your want to go. You can lower yourself to go faster and stand up for more control. The game is a racing game with obstacles to avoid, ramps to do tricks, and using other players for slip-streams. This functions well, but some maps are more bland than others.
The Boxing game, pretty intense too, is fun with two controllers per person, use hands to punch and the triggers to side-step, but is not as good with one. With one controller, you use it to control one hand and use buttons to punch with the other hand. Using one hand for boxing takes practice, but really isn't worth it if you have two. The way the game works is by draining your opponent's life bar to knock them down. Knock them down three times in a round to win, but their are multiple rounds with a scoring system I do not understand. You also have a stamina bar that decreases with every hit, also decreasing power, making blocking and dodging necessary to win.
Unlike the first game, you can create a few custom avatars for you or friends. The level of detail is deep allowing you to change things like facial construction, to their personality when winning and losing, to a logo they where on their clothes and equipment. You can make it so that your avatar wears different equipment in the different games, or the same thing in all of them. You also get different haircuts and equipment, and more by playing in cup mode. You can also customize equipment and earn different sports equipment like a composite bow compared to a regular bow, or a flaming bowling ball as compared to a giant 12 sided die.This does not effect performance in the game however, unless you count moral.
There are three game modes: Cup, Party, and Quickplay. In Cup mode you compete against NCSs and performance testing robots to get a one to three star rank in that event, earn more equipment and styles for customization, and move up to the next, more difficult event. Party mode is for playing with people in the room with you. There is no online. Each of you take a picture to represent you, make a sound to represent you, and play through a 3, or 7 or 10 rounds of randomly selected sports. By rounds, I mean one hole of golf, or one race of skiing. When a player wins a round, they get a few seconds to draw on the pictures of the losers - fun. Quickplay also supports multiple players but can be played in single mode as well. You pick one sport and play a full game. Full game in this case means 18 holes of golf, or 5 rounds of boxing and so on.
Overall, this is a fun collection of games and is a good value considering the price and the other Move games currently available. It's not perfect but I am not aware of any similar game on any platform that is.
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The game is soo awesome.Its 3D.I ordered it as a new copy of the game but I didnt like the copy because it said Golf DLC Included but when I opened the cover there was nothing except the game BluRay Drive.So I think amazon cheated or gave me the PreOwned game.
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I had the first addition great. I got hooked on Archery
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