By offering sports such as bowling, golf, boxing and a multitude of other fun activities, WS and WSR have been timeless and enjoyable experiences for friends and family.
Even though these games were released long ago, I still find myself thinking about them often and how they allowed me to bond with my family and friends.
WS offers five sports to play, and while they were fun, but WSR was what I played the most because it offered so much more than WS did.
Bowling is just one of the 24 game modes offered in WSR, and it is my personal favorite.
I was able to sit in front of the TV for hours, bowling with my family and it would never get boring.
Bowling had three game variations: standard was just normal bowling; spin control was my least favorite; and the 100-pin mode was by far my favorite. I would try for hours to get as high of a score as possible, which in the 100-pin mode was nearly impossible since the maximum score was 3000.
In addition to bowling, there was swordplay or sword fighting, which I’m sure many of the people reading this are very familiar with. Dueling with your siblings or cousins was one of the most enjoyable things I remember from the Wii.
Sword fighting had some really cool features implemented within it, too. When you were tied 2-2 in a duel, the floor would rise, and the platform would get smaller, making the final round that much more exciting.
Swordplay had super fun game modes, as well. There was a bamboo-slicing mode that I liked, but there wasn’t much depth to it. There was also a mode called Showdown, where you would fight opponents to reach the summit of a volcano, which is almost as good as the duel game mode.
WS Golf is also one of my favorite things offered by WS and WSR. The only drawback of WS Golf is that 18-hole games could take an hour or longer to complete, and with four players, they took even longer.
With that said, WS Golf as well as WSR Golf were super fun, WS Golf was easier than WSR Golf, the courses were much simpler and there were few hazards for your ball to go to. WSR Golf is also newer than WS Golf, making it slightly easier to be accurate with your shots.
The courses on WSR were incredibly difficult. You often had to land your ball on a tiny island at the end of the hole, which would lead to one to two stroke penalties very often. Par was rare on WSR, whereas on WS it was fairly common.
Boxing is another very memorable WS game mode. Fighting against friends was really cool, but hard to do since you both needed to have a pair of nunchucks, which were only really used for boxing.
If you did not know, the nunchucks were a second remote you would connect to your main Wii remote so you could play activities that required two hands, like boxing.
Playing against random opponents was quite the challenge, and it took a very long time to get used to boxing because it was so different from every other sport.