Deca Sports
Ages: Everyone

Deca Sports like Decathlon - 10 different sporting events - or 10 different ways to use your Wii controller and Nunchuk.

The game offers numerous ways to play - players can select a single sport, begin with a tutorial to get comfortable with the controls, select a team, and eventually select a league or tournament in which eight teams compete. In the Deca League mode gamers must maneuver their players through ten sports as well as manage their fatigue levels through the competition. Multiplayer will accommodate two to four - each requiring a Wii remote and or Nunchuk. For group sports you can select the athletes. When playing against the computer, you can adjust how good or weak your competition is. You can choose your physique types but everyone ends up looking like Playmobile or Mii characters.

Forceful and sharp motions produce different effects in the games and they are focused on signature moves for that particular sport. Some reflect the motion of sport the quite well - some are less intuitive.

• Beach volleyball - swing up with the remote and sharp down to spike - controlling direction by moving the remote sideways. The sand effect is great.
• Soccer - Player control is similar to basketball. Swinging the remote slowly performs a short kick, quickly a long kick. Goalies are always "COM" (computer operated). Hah!
• Badminton - the athlete is moved automatically to where the shuttle will land leaving the player to concentrate on the shuttle. Remote down for a long serve or up for a short serve.
• Basketball - is the most complicated because you are controlling three players with A. B. and Z, moving with the Nunchuk's control stick. Swing the remote up - jump, then down to release the ball. There's lots more, allowing you play offensive or defensive.
• Archer - hold the B button down, pull remote towards you, aim - release the button - easy,
• Curling - a sport like shuffleboard on ice. The B button activates the power gauge and determines strength of the throw. Press B to kneel, thrust the remote forward and release B. If you swing the remote, other athletes will sweep in front of the stone. Very funny,
• Snowboarding - tilting the remote down increases speed, up slows down. Tilt the remote left or right to take the turns. A or B will do tricks when hitting the ramps. The snowboarder is very responsive to your motions. Very kinesthetically satisfying.
• Figure skating - coordinate with music, Nunchuk controls skater over markers. Swing the remote when near the center of major markers to do tricks - miss and you fall. This didn't really give the sense of skating.
• Super Cross - for single player it's a timed trial - the remote is held sideways - tilt left or right for turns; button 1 slows, 2 accelerates.
• Cart racing - same as for Super Cross.

  All the events take place on appropriate tracks, courts, beach or rinks. There is a attentive crowd in the bleachers cheering your every success. Even if some of the sports are not familiar to the player the settings and animations make for a great experience.

  
  Fun Factor: Try out all the sports
  Female Factor: Fair distribution
  Player Friendly: Appropriate Wii controller movements - gives players a real workout.

  Reviewed by: Editor - 05/08

• Deca Sports
• © Hudson Entertainment
• Platform(s): XP Wii
• To Order: Win http://www.amazon.com/ $29.99