Product Description

EA PlaygroundWii It's Playtime! Beat your family and friends in a series of hilariously fun multiplayer playground games on your way to being the Playground King. EA Playground captures the exuberance of your neighborhood playground. The game is easy to pick-up and play, and great fun for kids, friends, parents, and even grandparents. EA Playground smartly delivers both traditional favorites and all-new playground games. Every game is uniquely designed with the Nintendo Wii's unique controls in mind. Whether you are swinging the Nintendo Wii Remote to throw a ball at your opponent in dodgeball, using it to bash away at a tetherball, or navigating a paper plane through a school hallway obstacle course in Paper Racers, you'll experience the Wii in a completely new and refreshing fun way. Play these games and more: Dodgeball, Tetherball, Wall Ball, Kicks, Slot Car Racing, Paper Racers, & Dart Shootout. There's more fun to be had in the rich Single Player mode. In thismode, you'll explore different areas, meet Playground bosses and beat them at their own games. But watch out, because the further you go in the game, the harder the bosses play. Collect marbles, earn stickers you can use as power-ups, and make the grade with an "A+" Report Card on your way to owning the EA Playground!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1048 in Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Published on: 2007-10
• Released on: 2007-10-22
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .56" h x 7.49" w x 5.71" l, .36 pounds

Features

• Capture the exuberance of the neighborhood playground with this fun game
• Includes Dodgeball, Tetherball, Wall Ball, Kicks, Slot Car Racing, Paper Racers, Dart Shootout, and more
• Each game uniquely designed with the Nintendo Wii's unique controls in mind
• Rich Single Player mode; unlock new locations, earn power-ups, and find hidden minigames
• Great multiplayer game for the whole family; intuitive controls; for up to 4 players

Amazon.com
Explore different areas and meet Playground bosses. But watch out, because the further you go in the game, the harder the bosses play. By beating bosses, you’ll be rewarded with stickers that act as power-ups. As well, you can roam the playground world and collect marbles that allow you to purchase additional stickers from the Sticker King. You’ll eventually assemble the ultimate Sticker Collection in your Sticker Album. Complete your Sticker Album, use the power-ups to beat the hardest bosses, and you’ll be on your way to owning the EA Playground!

Customer Reviews

Great Wii Game For Younger Kids!!
For teens and older, I think this game will get tedious pretty fast. However, I was looking for a good Wii game with simple controls (single controller) to play with my younger children. "Playground" makes an excellent addition to our Wii library of games and both the single-player and multi-player modes will get a good workout from us. This one is actually simpler than Carnival Games which I also recommend as a "kid friendly" game.

Basically, you wander around the playground collecting marbles and challenge other children to various games to earn stickers to place in your sticker book. Many smaller kids will find this feature quite appealing. My favorite games so far are the slot cars, paper airplanes, and dodgeball. All are simple enough (at least at the beginning) for most children to play. For example, tetherball is exceptionally simple at the outset. As you gain experience and skills, you will unlock more advanced versions of the games and new games as well. The game increases in difficulty as you progress.

As with most Wii games, don't expect stellar graphics quality. The Wii is aimed towards gameplay rather than graphics and this is another good implementation of the mini-game format for which the Wii is famous. One thing that does annoy me with the game is that although the text is in English, the children speak in Japanese. It's kind of cute, but for the price, I'd hope they'd have taken the time to re-dub the audio portions.

Overall, I think my children will find this enjoyable and challenging. This is a wholesome videogame that I can recommend without qualms.

Decent game, lack replayability
The common Wii game problem is the lack of content. Playground has 8-9 mini games, but they are almost identical. Only really different and enjoyable game was the paintball shooting. Comparing the 8-9 game difficulty level, it's about as complex as 1 mini game in Rayman.

So considering Rayman gives you 50 or so hilarious mini games, and playground offers 8 very similar mini games, this is really not a great buy. Rental game for party, but not a keeper.

Like th 3 star rating, nothing is superb in the game, but nothing is bad. It's just bland. $40 could be better spend on something else.

My 4-year-old and 7-year-old love this game!
The four of us in our family have been playing this game for about a month and we have a great time with it. I can see how this game wouldn't be so much fun to play by yourself, but it's super fun to play against other people. I highly recommend this game if you are looking for something the whole family can play.