Wii is fun

 I spent Christmas over at my relatives in Toronto, Canada.  It was a lot of fun.  The best parts were playing around with the Nintendo Wii.

Although I'm a known game addict, Wii is like liquid crack 100x.  I played the games that come with the system, tennis, golf, bowling, boxing.  My favorites were tennis and boxing.  Tennis was very intuitive.  you swing the racket at the time when the ball on the screen reaches your players.  the speed, angle, and position of the racket in relation to your body changes the ball's trajectory, and determines if your player will take a dive for it.  2v2 is definitely the most fun, and I look forward to wii tennis tournaments.

Boxing was a whole other animal.  Learning the moves is everything, and the learning curve is pretty steep.  There is no gaming manual for boxing moves, so it's more of a self discovery of what works and what doesn't.  There's jabs, hooks, uppercuts, blocking the face and body, leaning back, moving from side to side.  

There is just so much added functionality to the possible gameplays.  It more than makes up for the simplistic graphics.  Imagine if you and three other friends are fighting, punching, slicing up enemies in some epic quest of good vs evil.  Or if you could be a squad of assassins against another squad that play head to head online.  Wii is definitely a step in the right direction.