Product Description

Take a walk down memory lane to the days when you played with your friends until dark¿ Imagine a place where you can play all those games, where the level of competition is matched only by the sheer amount of fun. Neighborhood Games is that place, offering 24 unique twists on those popular games. No need to worry about the rain ending your fun!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1111 in Video Games
• Brand: THQ
• Model: 30185
• Published on: 2009-01
• Released on: 2009-01-12
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .51" h x 5.46" w x 7.54" l, .36 pounds

Features

• 24 popular games ranging from classic sports competitions to squirt guns and planes
• Battle backyard bosses to improve your skills until you rule the neighborhood
• Challenge family and friends on game night with up to 4 players at a time
• Create fully customizable characters, and laugh along as you watch yourself run, jump and play
• Familiar and intuitive controls make it fun for all ages and skill levels

Amazon.com Product Description
Now you can go back in time to the neighborhood of your past, where the fun never ended, in Neighborhood Games. This exciting new title from THQ Games takes the Wii's successful sports genre a step further, letting you go back to a time when you played with your friends until dark and where the fun was matched only by the thrill of competition.

You can play classic horse shoes with your friends. View larger.

There is also battle horse shoes. View larger.

Try to get closer to the jack than your friends in Bocce. View larger.

Fun Twists on Classic Games
In Neighborhood Games, players get to choose between 24 classics, from the majors like football, basketball and baseball, to backyard classics such as lawn darts, horseshoes and Bocce ball. With fine-tuned controls that are easy to pick up and play, family and friends of all ages and skill levels can jump right in and start having fun right away.

Loads of Lasting Entertainment
Don't just get your game on, get a great work out as you battle against backyard bosses to decide who rules the neighborhood in single-player tournament mode. Or you can go for bragging rights by challenging your family and friends in head-to-head action with up to four players. Just remember that the game doesn't stop when your not on the remote, because half the fun is in breaking up your opponents' concentration from the sidelines and watching them as they try to play.

Not only does Neighborhood Games give you all the great games you're used to playing outside, it includes other classic fun-in-the-sun activities like Slingshots and Squirt Guns, and RC Planes and Cars. And with classic Wii-style enjoyment, everybody will laugh along as players fully customize their characters to resemble themselves, or someone totally random. But unlike the Wii sports you might be used to, these characters follow you straight into the gameplay so you get to see your avatar run, jump, shoot and play. Best of all, in Neighborhood Games you don't ever have to worry about bad weather ruining your day.

Other games include RC car racing, HORSE, and beach bocce.

Customer Reviews

Awesome family game - had a great time with the kids too.
We've played a lot of other game collections with our family on the Wii and this one is our favorite so far. A very enjoyable experience all around, while not every game was my favorite there were quite a few that everyone enjoyed playing together. The spin on classic games like Dart-Ball (baseball meets lawndarts), Super Battle Shoes (battle ship meets horseshoes) as well as familiar fun games like Ladder Golf, RC planes, RC trucks, Football, and Water Wars (squirt guns) is a nice touch. The controls are familiar if you've played Wii Sports games. We really liked the fact that all of the games were unlocked in multiplayer so we didn't have to play through single player to get our money's worth.

The single player is a simple progression through 15 of the 24 games at 3 difficulty levels. You unlock clothing items for your character as you progress through the game. The presentation is simple but endearing and you can quickly get through the computer controlled players turn if you want in most games. You can also taunt the computer controlled player to try and get them to miss. The taunts, particularly the bottom shake made our younger child laugh.

Overall the we had a great time playing these games together. If you play different games in a an evening with your friends it keeps track of how many wins and loses each player overall which is a nice touch.

Poor gameplay
We were very disappointed with this game. There are many options of games to choose from, but unfortunately almost all of them had the same basic underhand motion. Bocci, horseshoes, shuffleboard, basketball, etc... were all just the same repetitive movement. Also, it was difficult to refine your movements because there wasn't a meter bar or some way to measure how far off you are. We lost interest in this game very quickly and just went back to playing wii sports.

Pretty good overall
This was one of the games we bought to play as a family with our new Wii. It's pretty good. The interface and action isn't as slick as Wii Sports or Wii Play, but it's a different set of games and it's fun to play as a group. The basketball shooting games can be tough, but I actually enjoy that it's not "automatic" and takes some practice. The bocce is very good, an dis probably my favorite. I'd say rent it first just to make sure it's your cup of tea.