Product Description

Cranium Kabooki Wii

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7324 in Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Model: 17380
• Released on: 2007-11-27
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .53" h x 5.50" w x 7.50" l, .25 pounds

Features

• New questions and 15 activities: your teams will be playing music, drawing, acting, puzzling, and even cracking codes to win.
• Inspired by the Cranium board game: Play activities within the 4 categories used in the board game (Creative Cat, Data Head, Word Worm and Star Performer).
• Unlimited players: Up to four teams, each with two or more players of all ages, can compete against each other.
• Fun use the Wii Remote™: spray paint, chalk, and disappearing ink, spin a globe to solve trivia puzzles, and perform hilarious feats!
• Includes special Kabookii Decoder Glasses: unveil secret clues on the TV without revealing them to other players in the room.

From the Manufacturer
Spray paint the solar system on a wall (you actually hear the can shaking in your hand!); use the Wii Remote as a mallet to hammer out "Auld Lang Syne" on a xylophone; solve word puzzles (what word is both a face card and car lifter?); or even trot the globe to test your knowledge of world flags, landmarks, and national anthems (frequent flier miles not included). Cranium Kabookii brings a new dimension to Wii play through the use of the Wii Remote and special Kabookii Decoder Glasses. New questions and 15 activities get teams playing music, drawing, acting, puzzling, and even cracking codes to win.

Key Features:

• The family game-show for your Wii: Enter the Cranium Kabookii arena, spin the carousel, and land on one of 15 different activities to start the fun!
  • Create works of art and imagination with spray paint, chalk, and disappearing ink.
  • Discover fascinating new things in true-false, multiple choice, and globe-spinning trivia puzzles.
  • Perform hilarious feats by acting, playing songs, and mastering the art of memorization.
  • Connect with friends and family as you crack codes, decipher clues, and remix phrases.
• Something for everyone: Unlimited players! Up to four teams, with two or more players of all ages, can compete against each other. Engaging and hilariously entertaining, Cranium Kabookii is perfect for any combination of aspiring artists, performers, data heads, or wordsmiths.
• Special Kabookii Decoder Glasses: Unveil secret clues on the TV without revealing them to other players in the room.

Cranium Kabookii brings a new dimension to Wii play through the use of the Wii Remote and special Kabookii Decoder Glasses. New questions and 15 activities get teams playing music, drawing, acting, puzzling and even cracking codes to win.

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Customer Reviews

Cranium Kabooki Review For Wii
Cranium is basically the best board game ever created. I not only speak for myself but for everyone else I know that has played the board game. It's a mixture of Pictionary, Trivial Pursuit, Charades and more.

Last weekend we had a little party and decided to pick up the Wii version of Cranium. The game itself seems solid and was fun to play. The game still requires you to draw, unscramble words and more just like the board game. A cool feature is that the answer to the question is displayed onscreen but is all jumbled up. You need a special set of glasses that are included in the game to decipher what you need to draw. It's a really cool feature.

Drawing onscreen seems user friendly. Some drawings require you to simply draw in one color while some others allow you to use multiple colors. The closer you hold the Wiimote to the TV the thicker the lines will be. Another cool feature.

Only one Wiimote is needed with this game since only one team plays at a time.

We played 2 games so far and it seems like a solid little game. I just have 2 small complaints though.

1) The price. At $50 you can actually buy the Cranium board game which is probably easier to transport to a friends house than a Wii.

2) Loading. Sometimes the loading seems a little long between questions. It's not so much a big deal when playing a group game like this because everyone is talking most of the time. If this were a single player game you would notice to loading times but since it's a group game we really didn't find it too much to worry about

Limited fun time!!!
I bought this game for my family since we are avid fans of the Cranium game series. Once we popped it in we were very pleased overall with the quality of gameplay. After playing it a few times I now see what can be considered major flaws in the gameplay itself. You are given a pair of "decoder goggles" so that they can display the answer to the person that needs to be drawing or acting. In truth it is not really hard to see the answer even without the goggles and it never surprises me that inevatably there is someone on one of the teams that tries to cheat. To tell you the truth its hard not to when you must look at the screen to see what the person is drawing and the answer is staring at you from below. This is a small flaw but it is annoying like I said because there is someone always willing to WIN WIN WIN rather than play honestly. The other big problem I am having is when you must act out some of the things on the screen with the wii remote. I think the remote has a hard time distingushing between some of the motions and instead you end up frustrated trying to "hammer" in a nail and it still won't recognize it. Some of the game transitions are slow but they are well worth the wait and I figure it gives you tie to get up off the couch and get ready. Someone reviewed this game upset that you couldn't chose the seperate challenges but you can't do that but rarely in the board game anyway, so I wouldn't expect that to be a surprise to many people.

Overall this is a good game. Not a great game but at least one that should keep your family entertained a couple of nights a month.

Limited replay value
Rent this game before purchasing it.

I believe this game detracts from the Cranium brand's value. Several of the "minigames" are sub par, and the interface is distracting at times.

The goggles could be a neat gimmick, but the implementation of the hidden word makes it somewhat easy for players to cheat.

Also, the minigame that instructs you to act out certain actions with your back turned to the TV is nearly impossible. The Wiimote does not communicate with the sensor bar properly with an adult human directly in its way.. I know it's a bluetooth interface, but it still doesn't work.

2 stars for a few hours of fun, but definitely not worth more than 20 bucks.