Beach Volleyball

Beach volleyball on the other hand can be fun, sometimes. It’s fun when the controls work and respond well and not fun when the controls don’t work and your computer partner is being an idiot. You don’t control your character but you can bump, set and spike the ball in the two-on-two games by swinging the Wii remote in one way or another. The problem is I didn’t find the bumping and setting controls that much different and going up to spike the ball sometimes happened and sometimes didn’t. If the game didn’t read your swing in time or you swung slightly the wrong way, the ball would simply fall to the ground. It was also unclear when the computer was going to attempt a spike or when it would instead go for a bump or, even worse, decide to pull a Daria and just stand there. This was made even more vexing by the fact that it seemed the computer opponents had just come from their gold winning Olympic tour and decided to pick on a game of pick-up that they just saw going on.

Much of this became alieviated once I had a friend playing with me as I knew what was going to happen and timing became much easier for spikes and other plays. Sadly, the opposing computer players had decided that on one serve they would play like elite volleyball ninjas and then on the next forget that they were on a beach playing volleyball and instead ponder why someone was launching a round white sphere at their faces. The difficulty was all over the place and it got pretty annoying. Once you got the moves down though and the computer decided to go on a streak of not being insane, the game was pretty fun and could definitely be a blast with four friends.