Supercross
Seemingly combining elements from kart racing and snowboard cross is the supercross event. You hop on a dirt bike and navigate your way around the track, surrounded by your competitors. Controls are much the same as with kart racing, except you can also tilt the Wii Remote to determine the angle of your bike in mid-air. You don’t want to land too heavy on either the front or back tire, because there’s a possibility of slowing down or even wiping out.
As with the other racing mini-games, the graphics in supercross are very disappointing. The crowd consists of a series of cardboard cutouts and there is no detail on the dirt path itself. Graphics aren’t everything, but this isn’t much better than a Game Boy Advance game. Now my question is, why does no one where a Motocross helmet? Again, it’s the details that make a game sometimes.
Beach Volleyball
You know how I said the badminton event in Deca Sports is much the same as the tennis game in Wii Sports? Well, the beach volleyball event is a further extension of this. The main added dynamic is that you’ll be playing in a team of two with a computer controlled partner. As before, your character automatically gravitates to the location of the ball; you just have to swing the Wii Remote accordingly to bump, set, spike, and block.
Beach volleyball doesn’t offer all that much variation from other “net”-based games and the graphics here will not please those who were more enamoured with DOA: Beach Volleyball. Not that I’m into that kind of thing.
Figure Skating
The first of three events that brings the nunchuk into the equation is figure skating. You navigate your character around the ice rink using the nunchuk’s analog stick, trying to skate over all over the yellow dots that define your path. Think of it as Pac-Man without the fear of being killed by a ghost. When you approach a larger blue circle, you’ll want to give the Wii Remote a well-timed shake. The closer you are to the center of the circle when you shake, the better. This results in some sort of trick. It could be a spin or a jump; you don’t really get to decide.
Figure skating is remarkably challenging, but it’s unfortunate that there are really only three routines to choose from. Where is the artistic expression? Despite what the image above may lead you to believe, this isn’t exactly “excellent.”
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