{"id":482,"date":"2009-10-09T12:21:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T19:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/?p=482"},"modified":"2009-10-09T12:21:50","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T19:21:50","slug":"wii-fit-plus-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/wii-fit-plus-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Wii Fit Plus Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Both my wife and I have been using Wii Fit for over a year now so when Wii Fit Plus<\/a> released this week for $20 I decided to pick up a copy.\u00a0 Monday afternoon I unwrapped it and through it in our Wii and our son proceed to play all the new games for about an hour. He was instantly a big fan of the new snowball fighting game.\u00a0 I actually got a chance to start checking it out later on Monday and I was instantly impressed with how well they streamlined getting into the activities and setting up routines.<\/p>\n

The new activities they have added are pretty decent. There are some new strength exercises and yoga poses as well as a dozen new balance and rhythm games.\u00a0 Some of them are more advanced versions of existing ones while others are are completely new. Overall they are a nice addition to the game and add a good amount of variety to the existing items.\u00a0 Also, some of the activities now add a 2 person mode where you take turns doing the activity to compete against another person.\u00a0 My son and I have been having a blast going back and forth trying to outdo each others scores in the new snowball fight game.\u00a0 It it you use your WiiMote sort of like a light gun and then lean left and right to move into and out of cover.\u00a0 It actually makes me really hope that they make a Virtua Cop or Time Crisis for the Wii that supports the Balance Board because it is a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

The new Workout Routines are a welcome addition.\u00a0 It makes it easy to streamline the workout process.\u00a0 You no longer have to go to the menu and pick the next activity after each exercise.\u00a0 Instead you can pick a pre-made plan or setup your own.\u00a0 Then, the game automatically moves you from one activity to the next without having to go to the menu.\u00a0 The pre-made routines let you choose what you want your workout to focus on and for how long it should last.\u00a0 It saves a lot of time that was previously wasted when using WiiFit for a regular workout routine.<\/p>\n

If you have a Wii Balance Board and Wii Fit the enhancements in Wii Fit Plus are worth the $20.\u00a0 It would have been nice to have an option to download Wii Fit Plus as DLC for Wii Fit, but given everything they added I can understand why they decided to release it as a stand alone disc.\u00a0 It would require quite a bit of memory to store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Both my wife and I have been using Wii Fit for over a year now so when Wii Fit Plus released this week for $20 I decided to pick up a copy.\u00a0 Monday afternoon I unwrapped it and through it in our Wii and our son proceed to play all the new games for about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[5,85],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-video-game","tag-wii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}