four-player action on all games Get together with friends and see family, who rank # 1 in all 11games, whether it is a player at a time or simultaneously with 4 player split screen mode.
tournaments if the party is set to grow up tournaments for up to sixteen players. Individual profiles Players can now create a profile to track their progress and skill level as they play.
Create your own character matches Use the new Create-a-Player system to design unique characters to suit your individual style.
Discover extended content Earn tickets to unlock new game modes, players many play areas and equipment as well as additional Create-A-players unlock assets
into all 11 games. Beanbags, Horseshoes, Lawn Darts, Puck Bowling, Quarterback Challenge, Trivia, Hoop Shoot, Ping Cup, Shuffleboard, Skill Ball, Darts
Game Party 2 is the ultimate party game for Wii players of all ages and abilities. Game Party 2 features new games like Bean Bag Toss and Horseshoes, as well as classics like Shuffleboard and Hoop Shoot. Every game has exciting new features like four player mode, customizable characters and tournament play that Game Party 2 the family favorite party game.
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Review by perfectvelvet for Game Party 2
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I’ll be honest: I liked Game Party 1, even though the controls were awful (Ping Cup was completely unplayable and Darts was frustrating at best). I liked the variety of games which were perfect choices for a motion-controled console, but it just wasn’t developed well and wasn’t my top choice for parties.
Enter Game Party 2. I felt a bit silly buying a game that I already had the majority of (GP2 contains all of the games from GP1 plus some extras) but I read a preliminary review from a gaming website and decided to give it a try. The controls are greatly improved. Still not perfect, but at least I feel like where I aim is where I’m (generally) going to land. Aim in GP1, and you’ll probably hit somewhere else entirely.
GP1 had many, many pages of characters to choose from. GP2 doesn’t have as much of a variety, but you can create your own custom player and save your stats. I’ll actually pick up GP2 and play by myself, which I never did with GP1. Too frustrating. By obtaining tickets, you can purchase new things for your characters to wear; I haven’t gotten that far yet since the games I played the most didn’t offer tickets. It’s nice that you can obtain tickets even while playing with friends, something that most games do not offer.
There is also a tournament mode in GP2 which is great if you have more than 4 people who want to play (up to 16, depending on the game). There are a lot of ways to conduct the tournament, such as loser goes home, an actual brackets advancement, and so on. Depending on which one you pick (we did a winner takes all), you can choose how many rounds (3, 5, or I believe 9) before the winner is declared.
The thing I disliked the most about GP2 gameplay was how it was arranged. Perhaps we didn’t have the right settings (we cancelled out of a tournament to play individual games, so maybe it was still stuck on tournament mode), but there were just 3 of us and it was forcing 2 of us to be on a team and the other person to play solo. I would have preferred for each of us to have our own scores. Another bummer was the number of games that required you to throw underhand; we switched between games just to give our arms a rest!
Now for the games. There are 11 total, all of the ones from GP1 plus some new additions.
- Darts: Again, thanks to the improved aiming function, this game is playable. I really enjoy it. The venue where you are playing changes, so it’s nice to be somewhere other than the pub in GP1.
- Skillball: Venue is a little sharper, and again the aiming helps, but it’s still pretty straightforward. (I am a fan of the version on Carnival Games, so I’m used to a different style.) However, you can roll more than one ball at once, so long as the other one is on its way to falling in a hole, you can toss another ball. Since this is timed, it’s however many points you can get before the buzzer sounds, rather than having 6 balls and seeing how many you can score. In that regard, I wasn’t actually trying to get in the 100 slot and was just trying to throw as many balls as I could.
- Shuffleboard: It’s quite a bit better than GP1, again because of the improved engine. We had a lot of fun playing this, and there are other options (first to 15, first to 21, and same for a version called curling which is arrange like a bullseye). I like it in real life, and this is a great substitute.
- Ping Cup: Wow, this is probably the most improved game. In GP1, this was virtually unplayable. It was so hard, I never played it. So when we decided to try it out in GP2, I warned everyone how frustrating it was. To my surprise, it was easy and pretty fun.
- Hoop Shoot: Again, my view of this is colored by Carnival Games, but it was okay. I landed only two baskets, so I was apparently doing something wrong. With a little practice, it can be fun, just tiring for your arm!
- Trivia: As with GP1, I just don’t get this game, and the instructions are still not helpful. I tend to skip over it.
- Quarterback Challenge: The onscreen instructions helped me understand what was going on, and once I figured it out, it was enjoyable. Basically, you’re trying to throw to your (yellow) team mates to advance and score a touch down. Throw to the wrong player, and you lose points. Whoever has the most points at the end wins. It takes some practice.
- Puck Bowling: This was amusing. It’s similar to shuffleboard, except you are hitting the bowling pins at the end. Picking up a split is virtually impossible, so you have to be spot on with your aiming (and again, it’s easier than if this game was on GP1). Very straightforward.
- Lawn Darts: Try to land inside the circles to score points. It’s hard to tell where your dart will land based on the camera angle, so you just have to get used to the motion of throwing underhand.
- Horseshoes: This was frustrating at first. We couldn’t score any points. Of course, a refresher on how horseshoes is actually scored helped us, and we were doing much better by game’s end. Underhand throwing again.
- Bean Bags: I was really looking forward to this one, and it wasn’t as great as I had hoped. First, it’s played indoors, which was strange to me. But the board you’re throwing to has different designs. Also, your throws don’t seem to upset the bean bags that have already landed which makes it a bit less realistic. It’s hard to knock your opponent’s bags off. On the other hand, points don’t cancel out so I guess there’s less of a reason to do so.
Game Party 2 is a good addition to your Wii party game collection. It’s not perfect, but it provides enough games that people are familiar with to be enjoyable, and the changes over GP1 make it a much more worthy purchase.
Review by R. Reed for Game Party 2
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I was going to buy the original game after playing it at a friend’s, but then saw the sequel for almost the same price and picked it up. First of all, for around $20 you aren’t going to get Halo 3, but this is a quality party game to play with friends. It’s nice to see that Midway heard the fan complaints and added more games and custom profiles to the mix.
My favorite games are darts and “Ping Cup,” which is otherwise known as Beer Pong/Beirut. On the virtual console these games would run you upwards of $15, so they almost make the package worth it by themselves. Both are fun to play and not difficult to pick up. These are the type of games the Wii was made for.
My biggest complaint is that horseshoes, lawn darts, and bean-bag toss are all the same game using the same motion controls. None of them are very entertaining and can take forever to complete. Hoopshoot, puck bowling, QB challenge, trivia, skillball (Skeeball), and shuffleboard are all OK party games to break up the gameplay, but the real attraction is in darts and pong. These are two games you can play continuously and not get bored with.
Overall, it’s a bargain title with some gems in it. Buy it cheap and enjoy the value.
Review by mary diebels for Game Party 2
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This game is so much fun! Its actually several games and up to 16 people can play if leagues are formed,four people for casual play.My whole family from ages 61 to 3 played over christmas and we all had a ball! Its a must have if youre looking for good clean fun the whole family can enjoy!
Review by C. Kruschke for Game Party 2
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This game should be banned by the AMA due to causing the proliferation of carpal tunnel. Although fun, every single one of the games has almost the identical hand movement – whether underhand or overhand, you are always moving the Wii remote with the same motion. After playing with my son for about 30 min, I had to take a break and my wrist still aches tonight.
The games are pretty good – although some of them are pretty finicky with a fine line between throwing too hard and too soft. Lawn darts (and I assume horse shoes, which we haven’t tried yet) is hard to judge as the dart goes up off the screen and then hits – you just have to guess how hard to throw until you get it right. Skiball seems almost too easy – I just threw the ball as often as I could with a nice, straight motion and I could regularly score above 1000 (which I can’t do in real life). The football, toss on the other hand, was almost impossible – at least the first time around.
So for $20, this is probably a good value. Lots of different games, multi-player tournament mode, and the ability to play for tickets to buy more characterization tools are all bonuses. Just be careful how much you play. In my opinion, no matter how touchey the controls or how difficult the game at the onset, it isn’t anything that you can’t improve on to the point that the game can be quite enjoyable. Just know going into it that you aren’t getting some polished $49.99 game and you won’t be disappointed.
Review by Lisa Shea for Game Party 2
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Set up to be a college student weekend party recreation, you get a good mix of bean bags, lawn darts, shuffleboard, ping pong ball bounce into cup, and other traditional games. You can actually get an arm work-out playing this!
It’s important to keep in mind this is MEANT to be casual. This is the kind of game you have some friends over hanging out, toss remotes to each person and get in to play. There aren’t complicated rules. You fling horseshoes just like horseshoes. You fling beanbags just like beanbags. Skee ball is just like the real game, rolling balls as quickly as you can. So is the shoot-the-basketballs-into-the-hoop. Yes, there’s a Trivia game, but most of these are quick, easy skill games.
Some of these games are VERY frustrating at first. Both of us are dart players and darts in particular seems really hard to control. It takes a while to get the hang of “launching” the dart straight with their controller. Still, most of the games are intuitive and fun. Skee ball for example can be picked up by anyone and can be great fun right away. I especially like that both players are rolling side by side quickly, no waiting around for turns.
The graphics are traditional cartooney Wii graphics, which is fine for this party game. I wish they let you use your regular Miis here instead of having to create yet more profiles with more characters, but I’m sure they had their reasons. You can earn new hairstyles and such as you play th egame.
The jazzy “bar music” in the background is actually kind of fun, and I like how the outdoor games have random suburban back yard items. You really get the sense of casual back-yard America. I thought it was funny that they even included Jarts (lawn darts) since they’re illegal now in the US! Too many infants had their heads speared by these dangerous things.
My only real complaint is that there are too many “delay for disappointment” things built into it. If I am having problems in darts I don’t need a scowling player after every throw. In the real game of darts I accept my miss, focus on doing better and throw again. I don’t throw a tantrum after each miss!
If you’re looking for a high-stress head to head game of Halo, you’re probably not going to have fun with this. However, if you’ve got some friends over for the evening, drinking a beer or two, laughing while you knock each other off the board in shuffleboard, it really can be quite fun. And it does get you some exercise while you’re at it too!
Plus it’s a game you can play with all ages – kids can challenge grandparents to beanbags and everyone can enjoy it.
Well recommended.