Certain events support the Wii Balance Board, and multiplayer modes include four-player "Hot Seat" action in some events, and two-player split screen contests in selected other events. Take part in 15 disciplines spread across 9 unique winter sports Complete the challenge campaign and visit 32 different levels and arenas Join friends in two- or four-person multiplayer action. Show More Show Less. Any Condition Any Condition.
See all - All listings for this product. Ratings and Reviews Write a review. Most relevant reviews See all 13 reviews. Mean commentators We started playing this game right after Christmas. A Real Challenge This is by far one of the hardest games to master I have ever played! Wii Winter Sports 2 My wife and I love it. It's fun! Best Selling in Video Games See all.
Mario Kart 8 - Deluxe - Nintendo Switch 4. New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe Nintendo Switch, 4. Pokemon Brilliant Diamond - Nintendo Switch 5. Pokemon Shining Pearl - Nintendo Switch 5. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Nintendo Switch, 4. You may also like. Nintendo Wii Sports Video Games. Sports Nintendo Wii Video Games. If you were to look at Winter Sports: The Ultimate Challenge and see it as a shoddy attempt to capitalize on the Wii's overwhelming popularity with a substandard sports compilation, you'd be right--but only half right.
As you'll see, it's also directly based on the underwhelming Torino , which was itself a shoddy attempt to capitalize on the last Winter Olympics. Diminishing returns is the name of the game with Winter Sports, and its failure to do anything interesting with the Wii's motion controls keeps it from rising above the mediocre legacy of its similar predecessor.
The action is spread across nine different events. You've got downhill racing alpine skiing, bobsleigh, skeleton, and luge , plus the level-terrain variety speed skating and cross-country skiing , and a grab bag of ski jumping, curling, and figure skating. Several of these offer additional disciplines, but the differences are pretty minimal; for example, there are more laps in speed skating, and you launch from a bigger ramp in ski jumping.
Among the events featured in the game, the alpine-skiing category makes the best use of the Wii's motion controls. You race downhill with remote and Nunchuk held flat, twist them from side to side to weave in and out of the flags, and pull them back to slow down.
It works decently enough, but doesn't really offer any advantage beyond the analog-stick steering of old. Sadly, "decent" describes the level of quality where the controls reach their peak.
The rest of the sports are substantially worse. In the level-terrain racing events, you'll find yourself simply pushing the remote and Nunchuk back and forth either as frantically as humanly possible speed skating or in a sleep-inducing rhythm cross-country.
Bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton require you to hold the remote sideways and use it to simply avoid hitting the wall too hard. Furthermore, ski jumping has you flicking the controllers up to jump, down to land, and using an oddly placed mechanism to keep yourself balanced, as if there were some magically invisible rail from Tony Hawk that you were trying to grind.
At best, these robotically simple controls do little to engross you in the sports they're trying to mimic; at worst, they'll lull you into a deep sleep. Although the game touts nine unique events, the skeleton, luge, and bobsleigh are the exact same in terms of controls.
But, hey! At least the skeleton looks cool. Figure skating is a beast of a whole different nature. Multiplayer matches for up to 4 players 2 players in split screen mode. Brand new campaign and career mode promises weeks of fun playing.
Compete for record times in the 9 most popular winter sports in 15 disciplines. Buy on. Critic Reviews. Score distribution:. Positive: 2 out of Mixed: 6 out of Negative: 7 out of Cheat Code Central. None of the events come quite close enough to holding their own as stand-alone games, yet they succeed as a part of a substantive sports package.
All this publication's reviews Read full review. The New York Times. Winter Sports pulls off the omnibus sports game effortlessly, with intuitive, responsive controls and effective, distinctive design for each sport. Game Informer. Gaming Target.
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