I'm sitting here at 9:30pm watching the Braves play the Mets. Yeah, I know it's not baseball season, but with MLB Power Pros for the Wii , if you don't feel like playing yourself you can watch little bobble heads of your favorite teams play on exhibition mode. Right now, no score in the 5th.
I sat down at 5:00 to play one more game before returning the game to Blockbuster. Now it's 9:30. The game has a ton of features and it's taken 2 days to scratch the surface on them. My favorite is what we call the soap opera version. You actually follow a player through college making decisions about when he practices, when he works at a part time job, studies, rests, dates, shops, etc. The goal is to get good enough to be drafted by a minor league team at the end of the third year while maintaining a balanced lifestyle. I'm not making this up. And the whole time your character is a little bobble head looking guy. Took me 4 tries over 2 days to get drafted, and it takes a couple of hours to play through if you make it through the 3rd year (one time I didn't make it past the second). Sweet. The Bobble Braves just scored, 1-0.
This is part of our plan to try out as many games as we can to see which ones we want to put on our Christmas lists. We signed up for the Game Pass at Blockbuster so it's unlimited rentals for a flat fee. So far we've tried:
Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games - very cool. All kinds of summer games, including gymnastics. This one is on the list.
Super Mario Galaxy - AWESOME. Also on the list.
Carnival Games - Fun. You get to do all the fun fair games like ring toss and shooting ducks, then earn different levels of prizes. But it was way too easy. We had every single unlockable thing unlocked in 2 days then took it back.
FIFA 08 - Good, but pretty much the same as FIFA 07, which Greg has played to death on the X Box.
Spyro - Had potential, but ended up being so hard to control that I could barely get off the first level.
AMF Bowling Pinbusters - just say NO. Awful. Greg played as Elvis. I played as a redneck ho who kept saying things like, "This just ain't my night," and, "Shucks!" in a horrible fake Dolly Pardon voice while nearly falling out of her shirt. It was bad. We love Wii Sports bowling and have been looking for a good full featured bowling game. This isn't it. Brunswick Pro Bowling wasn't very impressive, either.
MLP Power Pros - there's something just not right about this game, but we've become rather addicted to it. Mets have tied the game at 1 all, by the way, but the Bobble Braves are batting in the 8th. No... wait for it... Bobble Braves up 2-1. Ha. And that's the final score folks. At some point we really have to take it back to Blockbuster and get something else!
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You are just about to talk me into getting a Wii....
Same here.
Just so you know, the Braves can only beat the Mets in bobblehead baseball! I hope Tom Glavine throws his arm off the shoulder in a game this year!
A Wii is a wonderful thing. I never played anything on the X Box with Greg (except Super Monkeyball boxing...) but we do all kind of stuff together with the Wii. It's much more of a family system than some of the others.
And Benji - You know I wouldn't have brought it up if the Bobble Braves had lost! That one as just for you.
Yeah, we're getting one. It probably won't be at Christmas, though. They're so expensive right now ... I'm hoping the price goes down in a few months, and we're going to get one for my daughter on her sixth birthday.
Recommend any games for 6-year-olds?
Don't hold your breath on the price going down. It's one of the cheapest systems on the market as it is at $250, and still VERY hard to find. I don't expect the price to drop until one sits on a shelf for more than 24 hours.
The games, however, are getting cheaper. Quite a few are coming out new for $30, and the selection of used games at places like Game Stop is growing. As for good games for 6 year olds... My 5 year old godson and his younger brother are getting a Wii for Christmas and they're getting Mario Party 8, Carnival Games, and Lego Star Wars. We highly recommend Mario Party. Much fun. There are a TON of cartoon related games and a whole series of Petz games I've never tried. My suggestion is to buy a couple that you know will be a hit (and it comes with Wii Sports, which is very cool) then rent a few until you get an idea of what you like. Gamefly.com, gamerang.com, and Blockbuster (only in stores) all have monthly flat rate rental programs. And if you know other families with similar aged children, talk them into getting one and then borrow games to try them out!
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