A follow-up to Hasbro's Family Game Night, Family Game Night 2 brings a whole new slew of classic board games to Wii. Games included are Operation, Jenga, Bop-It, Connect 4x4 and Pictureka. All can be played in a variety of ways, including single player variations and Game Show Mode, which allows multiple players to utilize their Wii Remote and favorite Mii in a game show hosted by Mr. Potato Head, where players must show their skill at all five of the games to win. Gameplay
Hasbro Family Game Night 2 allows up to four players to enjoy family-friendly board game action on Wii in two different ways. The first is directly through the five classic games included. These include: Operation, Jenga, Bop-It, Connect 4x4 and Pictureka. Just get your players together, pick a game and let the fun begin. Within each of the five games is an option for classic gameplay, just as you remember it, and all-new "remix" versions special to Family Game Night 2.  Classic board game fun for Wii.
View larger. | Players can also incorporate play of these games into a grander gaming experience with Family Game Show Mode. In this mode players import their favorite Miis from their Wii into a game show hosted by Mr. Potato Head. Movement of individual Miis around the game board is linked to success in shortened play sessions of the five games. Players take turns spinning an in-game wheel, which chooses each game session, with the first player to make their way around the board winning. The game also features a mini-game option allowing a single player to unlock additional body and face pieces to customize Mr. Potato Head as they like. Key Game Features - Sequel to the award winning Hasbro Family Game Night.
- Play classic and all-new versions of your favorite Hasbro games: Operation, Jenga, Bop-It, Connect 4x4 and Pictureka.
- Play with your Nintendo Mii in the Hasbro Family Game Show.
- Customize Mr. Potato Head and earn new themes and trophies.
- Family-friendly multiplayer fun for up to four players.
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Old favorites like Operation.
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Multiple ways to play.
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Blocky fun with Jenga.
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Multiplayer action.
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 Pleasantly surprised! |
| Review Date: November 1, 2009 |
| Reviewer: PRT, |
I was a fan of the first Hasbro Fam. Game Night..but the 2nd one is great for both single and multiplayer...You can actually play a random selection of all the mini games within the classic game as single player now. You can use your own mii! The controls are great...and I'm nostalgic about being awarded prizes for all the different Mr.Mrs. Potatoe head faces I can make.
I can't stop playing bop it, pictureka or Jenga...But as mini games...in remix mode...all the games flow together seamlessly...much better than the first game.
More mini game collections should have this random remix option for all their games to keep it fresh.
The first one, wasn't as fun playing multiplayer, but this one definitely got it right.
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Enjoyabe
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| Review Date: November 19, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Jay & Alishaundra, San Diego/Kauai |
They improved and fixed a lot of things in this game compared to the first one. I really like Operation, Pictureka, and Jenga. The controls are pretty smooth, and the graphics are good. I would have liked to have seen a larger collection of games included, but overall it is a nice addition to the Wii library as far as family gaming goes. We have played it with players as young as ten and as old as fifty-six and so far everyone has enjoyed it.
It is a nice addition being able to unlock different pieces/collections of Mr. Potato head. |
Really fun game...
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| Review Date: November 19, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Michael Minutaglio, Staten Island, NY |
Ok, I wrote a review a few days ago asking if anyone else was having contriol issues, especially with Bop-It...well, last nite I was playing again and I figured it out, for SHOUT-IT, I was moving my arm up w/ the controller, and it was not registering, you have to just move your wrist...and guess what? I now LOVE THIS GAME!! Bop-It & Pictureka I can play for hours (which I was doing last nite)...yeah I can get the same experiance if I bought original versions of these games, but to have them all in one place that you can play on the comfort of your couch is the best part. Plus you can play the Remix versions of the games, it mixes it up a bit (especially Pictureka). Would definitaly recomend this game.
You can also create your own backgroung music playlist from dozens of different "songs" - some annoying (like the game show songs) to some that are more fun (the Horror and Superhero themes). Also, you unlock new items for your Potatoe Head to customize him as you please, not like the first game where you can add new stuff to your room. I like this way better cause how you customize him he stays like that in every game you play. I also like you can play you Wii in the Game Show mode.
Basically all I can say is give this game time. The first few times you may get frustrated and give up (as I almost did) but once you get the hang of it, it can be hours of fun for everyone!! |
Not fun at all very, hard to control
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| Review Date: January 7, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Jennifer D. Cochran, Memphis, TN |
| I bought this game for Christmas 2009 based on other reviews and wish I wouldn't have wasted my money. It is virtually IMPOSSIBLE to control the thing. Pictureka you try to click on the right thing and it clicks on something next to it. Connect 4 it will never drop in the right slot. Operation...I know they say "it takes steady hands" but I think they designed it for a pediatric brain surgeon. Jenga, same as Operation. The only thing that is mildly entertaining is the family game and watching your Mii cheer or hang its head in shame. I don't recommend this game to anyone...even the pediatric brain surgeon. It is just plain not fun. |
Too Hard and not fun
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| Review Date: January 3, 2010 |
| Reviewer: J. Belt, Chicago, IL |
| These games are way better in person and not at all exciting on wii. Jenga is way too hard and not fun for any age. I had much higher hopes for Operation, but they changed it too much. My family won't play this game ever again. |
Too hard and not that exciting.
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| Review Date: December 10, 2009 |
| Reviewer: A. Van Lin, |
| It's just hard to jazz up board games and make them fun on the Wii. Just a little to hard for most people, especially Jenga. |
Good Concept, Not as Much Fun
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| Review Date: January 7, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Jon Spell, |
I'd read other reviews of this, hoping for something fun my wife and I could play together. Well, we _can_ but the controls make it less fun.
Connect Four is one of two games that we both found fun to play. The only problem with it was the difficulty of choosing which column to drop the piece down. Even using the arrow buttons, we found it likely to twitch and drop the piece down the wrong spot. (Holding it upright lessened this effect.)
Pictureka was the other fun one. We've never played the original version of this, but it's fun frantically looking through the collages looking for something that matched the item list. The only real drawback here is that if you take over from someone else, you can pick the things they picked.
Bop It is a fun concept, but doesn't really work in this format. It's sort of weird that you have this device, that normally you'd do all these actions with, but now you have to do different ones with the Wiimote. And then it gets crazy by throwing in colors of the items that you have to remember and make the correct response. It's pretty easy to get quickly eliminated in this one.
Operation was fun for me, but it wasn't working out for my wife, so we couldn't really play this one much. Like the old game, it really does "take a very steady hand."
Jenga was the worst of the bunch. We found it virtually impossible to extract more than one block without having the whole thing come crashing down. (This ended up being more fun for me, watching it all fall in slow motion.)
Oh, and there's a "Game Show" option, but it just lets you do short mini-game versions of the regular 5. After all the frustrtation, though, we didn't want to play it again, or mess with the Mr. Potato Head construction. |
Not as fun as I had hoped
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| Review Date: December 30, 2009 |
| Reviewer: B Heaton, Utah, USA |
| Was hard to control remote ... don't think my kids can even play it for themselves. We were excited to see operation ... can't figure out how to do it. It was very hard to grab the object we were to remove from the "patient". |
Very hard to use the remote for these games
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| Review Date: February 22, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Hilary P, Scarsdale, NY United States |
| Granted, I only played this game twice, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to play Jenga. And when I played operation, I couldn't get any of the pieces out. Forget about my 4 and 6 year olds trying it. They usually like watching me play, but I couldn't figure out how to do any of the games! The instructions, like most of the Wii games, barely gives you any information. I was hoping this would be a lot of fun, but so far, we haven't been able to play this too much. I'll try connect 4. That might be easier. |
Not nearly as fun as we had hoped
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| Review Date: February 6, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Keith Compton, |
| Bought this to pass the time while we were snowed in during an expected snowstorm. We bought this because we wanted family-friendly games so that our four year old could play. Unfortunately, the games are frustratingly difficult to control, even for an adult - forget about it for the toddler set. This might be ok for older kids, but even so, the selection of games is pretty limited. These games just don't translate over to the Wii. I would avoid this title unless you could get it for maybe ten dollars or so. |
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