This is going to be one of the shortest reviews I will probably ever do. Well, we saw this game in the Argos catalogue earlier and thought it would be fun, so we picked it up today. Probably one of the worse game purchases ever made… It’s Sports Party for the Wii.

Image ripped rather not so gracefully from Amazon.co.uk since the game doesn’t have a Wikipedia article!

Sports Party is some game for the Wii that attempts to fill the void left by the fact Wii Sports only gave you five different things to choose from, by giving you eight more. That’s all there is to it really…

I’m going to walk you through the process of what we did when we decided to pop the game in here at home for the first time.

1. Start it up etc.
2. Have to create a profile, which stupidly can’t assign itself to a Mii for ease of use…
3. Have the Wiimote vibrate furiously while the main interface loads.
4. Select a game (badminton), then select number of people and which character to be as.
5. Spend 5 minutes figuring out you have to drag and drop your picture (not even any names to help teel who is who!) to the team you want to be on.
6. Have some stupid coin toss to determine who goes first.
7. Since I won the coin toss, proceed to win the game easily since we have no idea how to actually hit the thing other than the service.

And after that, the game was quickly ejected and returned to it’s box to hopefully be returned for a refund. I can only presume there is a choice of only two camera angles – one which follows the “action”, or one which is fixed behind the person who is serving. Annoying, without split-screen, it’s hard to figure out what way you need to swing when in the back, and as such your shots usually go completely the opposite way, and out of the court.

With that debacle, we both agreed the game was shit. End of story.

Ranting Review Score

Gameplay: 2/10. It has some promise, it’s just heavily flawed in design. Wait for Wii Sports Resort…
Replayability: 0/10. It’s being returned after one session. I think that speaks for itself.
Engrossness: 0/10. A fly trying to fly out our closed window was more interesting.

Total: 2/30. There is obviously something wrong in your head if you buy this.