Wii Sports Resort

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North American box art.

Developer(s)

Nintendo

Publisher(s)

Nintendo

Release Date(s)

Wii

NA: July 26, 2009
JP: June 25, 2009
EU: July 24, 2009
EU: March 22, 2013 (Nintendo Selects)
AU: July 23, 2009
KO: June 24, 2010

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Accessory(ies)

Genre(s)

Sports

Rating(s)
ESRB	PEGI	CERO	ACB
03	02	01	01

USK	GRAC
02	01

Wii Sports Resort is a Wii sequel to the launch title Wii Sports. It comes packaged with the Wii MotionPlus accessory which allows the Wii Remote to capture more complex motions than before. For this particular game, it is a requirement. Twelve different events and twenty four modes are available in Wii Sports Resort (which is more than twice the number of the original). Within a month of its initial June 25, 2009 release date (in Japan), Wii Sports Resort was released worldwide in Australia, Europe, and North America.

In Europe, the game was temporarily packaged with a black Wii, which also came with a Wii Remote, Nunchuk, Wii MotionPlus, and Wii Sports. All of the accessories matched the console. In America, Nintendo temporarily packaged the game with an extra Wii MotionPlus accessory and raised the price by $10.

CPU Miis[]

The CPU Miis are mostly the same from Wii Sports. However, there are new Miis that were added to Wii Sports Resort. The champion Miis are Lucía for table tennis, Tommy, Eva, & Tyrone for basketball, Matt (who was the champion for boxing in the original Wii Sports) for swordplay, and Anna for cycling.

Games[]

Air Sports[]

The Air Sports games include of Skydiving, Island Flyover, and Dogfight.

Skydiving[]

The Skydiving portion of the game is the first game that the player will participate in, but ironically, was the last one the developers created for the game. It's made as an introduction to Wuhu Island and as an introduction to the accessory the game comes with, the Wii MotionPlus. You'll contort your mii by moving the Wii Remote around with Wii MotionPlus attached to it. Some have compared this portion of the game to a similar one featured in the Pilotwings titles. After jumping from the plane, you'll come crashing down to Wuhu Island, but it'll take awhile until you arrive. In the meantime, you'll be accompanied by a ton more skydivers who happen to by other miis you've created or pre-created ones. The Miis will circulate around yours and by pointing towards them they'll start to link hands. In the end of the game you'll let your parachutes fly, thus ending the spectacular introduction to Wii Sports Resort and Wuhu Island. After playing this mode, you can return to it and take pictures and aim for golden rings that float in the sky (which is another similarity to the Pilotwings game from the early nineties).

Flyover[]

The second game featured in Air Sports is Island Flyover, which like Skydiving is a single player affair. You'll hold the Wii Remote as if you were grasping onto a paper airplane and control the plane by turning and twisting the remote, and can get a small speed boost by thrusting the remote forward. This mode is very similar to the technical demo present during Nintendo's E3 2006 showing that was supposed to be a Pilotwings revival.

As you fly, you'll be able to locate landmarks on the island, each one with an icon nearby (usually above) shaped like a circle with an i in it with a written log that gives you information about the landmark. These are called I-Points You can get them by flying into them, and once you do, they will turn grey. Once you start a new round, they will instead have a green checkmark on them. There are a grand total of 80. After every ten you get, you unlock a specific thing. You can fly through these, and earn points that unlock more features to the game as you play. These features are:

Unlockable Features Rewarded for Collecting I-Points
Required Amount of I-Points	In-Game Description	Additional Description
10	You can now pop balloons!	Unlocks popable balloons.
20	You can now fly in the evening!	Unlocks the "Evening" time of day.
30	You can now use the double blaster!	Allows you to shoot two shots at once.
40	You can now fly at night!	Unlocks the "Night" time of day.
50	The islands are now lit up at night!	Fireworks will be launched at a few I-Points.
60	You can now fly a two-seater plane!	Unlocks a toggleable two-seater plane. When used, a different Mii from your Wii will sit behind you.
70	The Whale Shark has a new design!	The big white blimp in the sky will now have your Mii's face on it.
80 (All of them)	A vacation house has been built for you!	At the Private Island, a small house will appear. A flag with your Mii's face on it will be their, and the background color will be your Mii's favorite color.

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After collecting 10 I-Points you unlock the ability to pop balloons that Miis on the island are holding with your plane's shooter, or by flying into them. All of these balloons will be white, however once you pop them and then play another round of Island Flyover, they will be a different color. One of the stamps for Island Flyover is for popping every white balloon in every time of day.

Dogfight[]

The third game is Dogfight. It is a strictly 2-player game. It is much like Island Flyover, except for no I-points, and no balloons except for the ones on the back of player 2's plane which you must shoot to win.

Archery[]

Aim with the Wii Remote by pressing the A button and pull back with the Nunchuk by pressing the Z button. After releasing your finger the bow will be released. The goal is to get in the center of the target. This is one of the few games that make use of both controllers. In the game, you'll hold the Wii Remote with your less dominant hand (for example, if you're right handed you'll hold the Wii Remote in your left). Because of this, it may be a challenge to get used to. You'll have to keep your hand completely still when you've aimed with the Wii Remote, and before you let loose you also have to consider the speed and direction that the wind is blowing. This even was confirmed during Nintendo's E3 2009 press conference, and was one of the games that was demonstrated.

In each of Archery's stages is a secret target that can be seen far away, though finding it alone can be a challenge. When the player eventually finds the secret target, they have the option of shooting it, though doing so will be very challenging. Hitting the secret target will reward the player with 10 points.

Archery was one of the first four games that the development studio planned to include in the game, and hoped to unveil it in time for E3 2008. Three other sports were demonstrated, though they weren't able to accurately create the slow motions that were required in archery in time for the event, so waited until next year's big event to reveal the game.

Each round of Archery you play three targets, and you get three arrows per target. You can change the difficulty of these levels too.

Basketball[]

In basketball, you try to acquire more points than your opponents by shooting upwards with the Wii Remote. There are two modes including 3-Point Contest, which supports 1-4 players, and Pickup Game, which supports 1-2 players. In 3-Point Contest your Mii stands behind the three point line and the player makes appropriate motions with the Wii Remote in order to try and get the basketball in the hoop. The player with the most points at the end of the round wins the game. Each round is timed. Pickup Game is a three on three basketball game. The player won't control each mii with the joystick on the nunchuk, but rather the mii will move automatically (similar to Wii Sports Tennis). All the player has to do in Pickup Game is shoot, steal, pass, and block. The champion in basketball is Tommy & his team of Eva & Tyrone.

Bowling[]

The bowling mode is the same game that was featured in the original Wii Sports with added precision. The unlockable mini-games that were contained within the original also come back, but this time you don't need to unlock them. The first additional category to the game is the 100 pin mode. Instead of just trying to knock down 100 pins once, you can play an entire game where each round has you trying to knock down 100 pins. The secret red buttons from the original Wii Sports also came back, and if you throw the ball on top of the gutter guard with a little spin, you can get an automatic strike along with a stamp, called "Secret Strike". In this mode, you can have a total score of 3,000. The second additional category to the game is Spin Control. This mode adds barriers the player must avoid by putting spin on the bowling ball.

Canoeing[]

This game uses the Wii Remote as a paddle. This mode contains Speed Challenge and VS.

Speed Challenge is a one to four player cooperative game. If playing with more than one player, all of the Miis will be in the same canoe and you'll have to reflect each other's movements in order to move faster and in the desired direction. In this mode, you'll be required to get to the goal at the end of the course in the set time limit. Obstacles will halt or slow your progress if you run into them, as will an unorganized team if you're playing the multiplayer mode. After you complete the goal, the finish line will be moved a little farther back. Speed Challenge has three difficulty levels including easy, medium, and hard.

VS. is a multiplayer only event. Two to four players can participate in this game, and each Mii will be in a separate canoe as opposed to Speed Challenge where everyone was in the same boat. In VS., each course has a set number of checkpoints. The goal of VS. is to make it through more checkpoints than your opponent. This mode is not a split-screen affair; instead each player will be seeing the same screen. There are no stamps to collect in this mode due to the lack of a single-player mode.

Cycling[]

In cycling, you'll be pitted against thirty other people and race around the island. In this mode you'll move the Wii Remote and Nunchuk up and down, alternating between the two to simulate pedaling. You can steer where your cyclist is going by changing the direction of the Wii Remote. Going behind another cyclist and staying there for a short duration will cause your character to drift, which will make him or her go faster (such as in the Mario Kart series). Moving the two remotes too fast will cause your character to tire out. The champion for cycling is Anna.

In 3-level mode, you are pitted against 50 players. It doubles for the 6-level mode.

There are two modes, in Road Race one player or two players on the same bike race. In Vs, two players race on different bikes.

Frisbee[]

In this game, you will either toss your disc so that your dog can catch it (Frisbee Dog mode), or play a full game of frisbee golf with eighteen holes. Before you toss your in-game frisbee, you'll have to aim it so that it'll fall in the circle. You can twist your arm so that it'll twist the disc in the game. Once the frisbee is unleashed, the dog will follow it. If the disc starts to fall in the circle, the dog will jump up and catch it. Interestingly, the dog featured in this game was the dog that would accompany you occasionally in the wii game Wii Fit. This game was one of the three events that were revealed during Nintendo's E3 2007 press conference, while a year later Nintendo announced that a full frisbee golf game would also be contained within the title, similar to the mode featured in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 (which also made use of Wii MotionPlus).

Golf[]

Golf was present in the original Wii Sports, though this game contains added Wii MotionPlus functionality. The game offers a lot more strategy and more courses too. There are 21 holes in all - nine of them are from the original Wii Sports (which were influenced by the 9 holes in the NES game Golf (video game), and twelve of them are brand new to the game, three of which you have to unlock. The harder you swing the Wii Remote, the harder your mii will hit the ball. The angle of the club will alter the direction the ball goes. And, also like the original Wii Sports, there is a wind mechanic that will alter the direction the ball goes after you've hit it. You can also change the club type. As in the original game, players can practice their swing before they hit the ball. Golf is a one to four player game, though each player will have to take turns. Players can be part of a team or can go free for all. When playing the single player mode, the player will not have to go against a computer controlled opponent.

Power Cruising[]

In this game, you hold the Wii Remote and Nunchuk as if you were grasping the handles of a jet ski. You perform the same motions as you would in a real jet ski as well. In the game your goal is to get through the goals before time runs out. This is one of the few games that requires the use of the Nunchuk. You'll tilt the two controllers in order to go in the corresponding direction. The director of Wii Sports Resort, Katsuya Eguchi, was the man who also headed the Nintendo 64 video game Wave Race 64. In an interview, he claimed that Power Cruiser is more expansive than the Nintendo 64 classic. When questioned in 2007 if there would ever be another Wave Race game, Shigeru Miyamoto explained that he felt the power cruiser game in Resort would appeal to a much broader audience.

Swordplay[]

Players play as one of your Mii characters and either play in the game modes Dual, Speed Slice, or Showdown. Duel is a 1 or 2 player game. When playing the single player mode, you'll fight against a computer controlled character. The fight will take place on a circular platform, and you'll go against an opponent attempting to hit him/her into the water below. There are three rounds in all, each with a set time limit. If there is no clear winner by the third round, you'll automatically have to participate in a Sudden Death match. Sudden Death takes place on a much smaller platform. The champion for duel is Matt.

Speed Slice is a 1 or 2 player game. When playing the single-player mode, you'll go against a computer controlled character. In this mode objects will be placed in front of your character and you'll then be required to slice in the appropriate motion listed in order to move on to the next object. When you slice in the right direction, the object will be split in two. The first person to slice the object first wins the round. In all, there are eighteen types of objects available.

Showdown is a single player game. There are 20 stages in this game that take place across Wuhu Island. In this mode, you'll be attacked by an abundance of Miis, all with plastic swords in their hands. At the lower left hand corner of the screen is your health bar. You can be attacked three times before you have to start the stage over again. As the game progresses, the opponents will become increasingly harder to overcome. Despite the fact that there will be multiple miis on screen at once, they won't all attack you at the same time; rather, only one will attack your player, and once defeated another one will subsequently take its place. At the end of each stage is a boss Mii that wears black armor and has a purple sword. The final boss of showdown is Matt.

Table Tennis[]

This game is similar to the Wii Sports tennis game and Wii Play's table tennis title, but with added Wii MotionPlus control. The onscreen Mii will automatically go towards the ping pong ball but it'll be the players job to hit it in the right direction so that it heads back to the player on the opposing side of the table. The mode was revealed prior to E3 2009 on Nintendo's Japanese website via a video that also showcased golf. While you're playing, spectators will watch in the background. A pool is stationed behind the table that serves no significant purpose. The champion for table tennis is Lucía.

When creating the title, members of the development team asked other employees who have been to tropical resorts if they play table tennis outdoors. Some recalled that they did in fact see some people playing table tennis outside, and thus were able to make the table tennis game outside opposed to putting it indoors. They placed it by a pool so that it retains the resort feel that they were aiming for. When asked why they didn't just include tennis again, they explained that they wanted to refrain from adding too many games from the original in the new title. They also said that more people are presumably familiar with table tennis than they are with tennis, and thus would result in more interested people.

Wakeboarding[]

In this mode. you'll be pulled by a boat on the ocean, and hold the Wii Sports in its classic position (a la Super Paper Mario, Wario Land: The Shake Dimension). You can twist the Wii Remote left and right in order to go in that direction and move the controller in variety of directions to get points when lifted in the air. The game was first revealed at E3 in 2009.

Stamps (Achievements)[]

Every game and type of game (For example, Frisbee Golf and Frisbee Dog each have differing stamps.) that has single-player has stamps, which act like achievements. Additionally, a message will be sent to the Wii message board each time a Mii gets one. Each type of sport has five stamps.