{"id":3729,"date":"2011-10-07T07:41:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T00:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/?p=3729"},"modified":"2011-10-07T07:41:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T00:41:59","slug":"review-wiiplay-motion-a-great-family-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellconnectedmom.com\/blog\/review-wiiplay-motion-a-great-family-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: WiiPlay Motion – A Great Family Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you love playing Wii with your kids, you’re gonna love WiiPlay Motion*. \u00a0WiiPlay Motion includes 12 games unlike any you’ve ever played before. \u00a0It has a lot of fun family games with friendly competition. \u00a0WiiPlay Motion works with the Wii Remote Plus to get the most out of playing the games. \u00a0Fortunately, a black Wii Remote Plus controller is included in the box! \u00a0We only had one Remote Plus before, so this allowed two of us to play at the same time.<\/p>\n

\"\"Cone Zone:<\/span><\/strong> \u00a0My kids and I LOVE this game, we can play it over and over again. \u00a0To play you hold your remote upright and balance the ice cream as the giant ice cream scooper in the sky piles on more scoops. \u00a0The scoops get ridiculously high as you balance your cone as if your life depended upon it. \u00a0We’ve gotten up to 45 scoops before it all comes piling down. \u00a0This game also has a soft serve version too where the ice cream comes spiraling down and you need to gingerly wrap the ice cream in the cone to pile it higher.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Wind Runner:<\/span><\/strong> Another one of our absolute favorite games. \u00a0To play you’re geared up with an umbrella and roller blades. \u00a0You make your way through the obstacle course by raising your umbrella to catch wind and fly at times to get “diamond” points. \u00a0Your goal is not only to reach the finish line first, but to also catch the most diamonds. \u00a0Sometimes, we play for hours challenging each other on this game.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Flutter Fly:<\/span><\/strong> \u00a0My kids love challenging each other to this game. \u00a0In Flutter Fly, your Mii is a set of three balloons. \u00a0Your goal is to float through obstacles to reach the top first. \u00a0Along the way, things can pop your balloons, making your balloons slower to reach the top. \u00a0If all three balloons pop, you go down a couple of levels and try to catch up to your opponent again. \u00a0My kids love to play me on this one, as they have a lot more experience playing it and they can beat me on it most of the time.<\/p>\n

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Trigger Twist:<\/span><\/strong> \u00a0This is one of the games behind the reason for the E 10+ rating. \u00a0In this game, you have a “shooter” and shoot at balloons and UFO’s, but in some of the screens you’re shooting ninjas. \u00a0My son LOVES this game, but yes, I would say it concerned me that he was shooting “people.” \u00a0Nonetheless, I’ve played this game with him many times and it’s a very fun, adrenaline-pumping game to play.<\/p>\n

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Pose Mii Plus: \u00a0Pose Mii Plus is a fun game where you need to position the remote just right so your Mii can enter into the upcoming template without bumping it. \u00a0A series of templates come right at you, so you need to constantly assess\u00a0and move your remote accordingly. \u00a0If you completed the first stage successfully, you move onto the following stage, and the one after that, etc. \u00a0 I marveled at how well my son does at this game; it definitely takes some practice to proceed to the next level.<\/p>\n

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Veggie Guardin’<\/span><\/strong>: \u00a0This is your basic whack-a-mole game. \u00a0Again, this game is part of the reason for he E 10+ rating. \u00a0The premise of the game is that\u00a0varmints\u00a0are trying to steal your veggies from your garden. \u00a0Smacking your remote in a downward fashion whacks the moles. \u00a0Up to four players can play. \u00a0It gets crazy and is a lot of fun. \u00a0The better you play the higher levels you achieve.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Skip Skimmer: \u00a0<\/span><\/strong>This is a fun game in which you pick up a stone and skip it across the water. \u00a0You get points by the number of skips that occur on the water. \u00a0As you progress, more stones are available to you like hearts, spaceships, musical stones, etc. \u00a0Each of these stones have personalities of their own which make skipping the stones even more fun. \u00a0You can also play an Olympic type of game where you skip your stone in a tube and try to have it skip through floating rings to gain more points. \u00a0Up to four people can play adding to the fun and excitement of this game.<\/p>\n

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The above 7 games are our top favorites. \u00a0There are also five other fun games including:<\/p>\n