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World Party Games
 
Manufacturer: DreamCatcher Games
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Product Description
Play exciting new and innovative games from around the globe! Each continent has its own fun and challenging games that are guaranteed to be a blast for the whole family! Curl with seals in Antarctica, race up the Eiffel Tower in France, dance for rain with African tribesman, and much more. Play on your own or, better yet, challenge up to 4 friends. Win cups and medals, unlock new levels, activate bonus levels, and don cool new threads. It's fun for the whole family!

Product Details
  • The whole world in one gigantic fun-filled theme park
  • Simple gameplay mechanics with a low learning curve
  • Perfect fun for the whole family
  • 15 games on 7 continents
  • 1 to 4 players

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The Outer Rings of Locked-Level HELL
 
Review Date: April 12, 2010
Reviewer: Luscher, Goyim City, Wisconsin, United States
NOTE : This review will ignore SFX, Music and Graphics to focus on the gameplay.

By far THE BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENT about this whole disaster has been our misinterpretation of what 'World Party Games' means : we had hoped to play games with some cultural relevance - such as Sumo Wrestling (remarkably, this IS one of the games safely locked out of reach) and other activities people from other cultures enjoy. Heck, the box says ''play exciting games from around the globe'' -- SERIOUSLY ?!? do Italians play 'Toss-a Da Pizz-a at-a the Italian a-Guy-a' ??? i seriously doubt it. (ATTENTION Dreamcatcher employees : maybe the Italian Mafia should pay you idiots a visit, and ''teach you'se guys some manners, ya know what ahm talkin' 'bout ?'')

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There is a SERIOUS CANCER of '[WHATEVER] GAMES' packages spreading on the Wii platform, but these can be SAFELY AVOIDED if you watch for the EARLY WARNING SIGNS : neither a comprehensive list of the games is included, nor details of gameplay. There is a reason that information is not included, and that reason is called marketing : few people would buy if they had a clear idea of what they were actually paying for.

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The first insurmountable hurdle : the only games available initially are 'Spinning Camel', 'Running up the Eiffel Tower' and a 'Pizza Toss' fiasco. For the 'Spinning Camel' game you tilt the remote (or shift your weight on a balance board) to counteract the current tilt and roll of the camel . . . think 'virtual mechanical bull ride', but without any of the fun. The 'Pizza Toss' game will build endurance as fast as any repetitive-stress inducing factory job, simply shake the remote up and down (theoretically this simulates cutting a pizza) to 'reload' after tossing slices (which is accomplished by swinging the nunchuck Frisbee-style) to the various Italian cooks (?) popping out of the doors and windows that line the street, as well as the occasional passerby on foot or scooter. THIS is fun ? Maybe you will think so ; different strokes, right ? 'Running up the Eiffel Tower' was every bit as exhausting as was the pizza toss, and just as repetitive. And just as repetitive. And just as repetitive. If you enjoyed reading that three times in a row, this game might be for you ! (For the record, let me say that repetitive can be fine, but none of these mini-games is engaging in the least - not even top-notch music from Nintendo could save this one.)

So how long until you unlock something that might be interesting ? Beats me ... not soon enough - that much i can say for sure. it will be an unpleasant period of time spent (if i can manage), with only a hope of getting to something interesting.

The frantic waving and seemingly endless remote-pumping activity was not what we got the Wii for (i have all the other game consoles for that sort of thing). Most nights my wife and i enjoy bowling a few games, a round or two of Mini Putt-Putt, or some other fun activity not requiring an excruciating setup (such as unlocking levels in the hope of finding something entertaining), endurance-based button mashing activity, or extensive training (she refuses to make the commitment required by a Zleda game, for example, but i'm working on her).

What did i expect ? Maybe instead of a spinning camel i expected to play 'Arabian Polo' with a sheep's head (i'm neither judging nor kidding - i wanted to experience what other cultures consider 'fun'). But tossing pizzas at Italian stereotypes was a mite insulting, and i say that as someone who grew up laughing at cultural stereotypes on Saturday morning cartoons. What 'World Games' did they miss ? How about Ball-in-a-Cup (played against a cadre of barefoot Mexican children, most likely) - that is about all this company might have achieved, in my opinion : utter crap.

World Party Games was a failure of the first order. ** because i do not want to ''poison the well'' should others think it worthwhile.
RUN...RUN FAR AWAY FROM THIS GAME!
 
Review Date: July 9, 2010
Reviewer: D. M. Caddeo, Millersville, MD United States
I violated my number one rule when I picked this game up on a whim in a local store using a gift card...did not read the reviews first! The only other person brave enough to have also purchased this game and reviewed it here...I can tell you I agree with everything. I was saving this game for a rainy day as something "new and exciting" to play for the kids...BIG MISTAKE! This game promised excitement and failed to deliver in any way, shape or form. The graphics...just poor. The games...well at least the ones that are unlocked upon first play...are laughable. Actually I found it hard to laugh realizing I paid money for this game or rather used a gift card poorly. It was hard to even figure out HOW to play some of the games even reading the books and the on screen directions which were again...just poor. After an hour of trying out the games we still found nothing redeeming in this one. Perhaps if we could unlock some of the other games MAYBE just MAYBE we would find a reason to keep playing...but the torture of playing more of the already unlocked games just to get to those is just not worth it for any of us. Only one game that utilizes the balance board is unlocked originally.
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