#Smarty pants wii for free

A plain-old Trivial Pursuit board is far more colorful and interesting to look at than this game. As for the overall presentation, all you get is the players' Miis, the question, a lot of white background, and some of that Wii-style peppy elevator music in the background. You'll have no idea how hard the question is to answer until you commit to answering it. The format is also strange, as the questions are all multiple choice but you don't see the answers until someone buzzes in. You get one question on classical literature or pop culture for every ten that ask you things like how many shots are needed to take out a Galaga. First of all, for a family game an amazingly large number of questions are devoted to video games. The trivia itself features some surprisingly challenging questions, but there are some odd design decisions in this aspect of the game. I don't know what dancing has to do with trivia, but if you're going to stick such lame attempts to add motion control to a trivia game then you should at least take the time to be sure that they work correctly. In practice, no matter how much you dance and jump around, your Mii does the same little dance on screen and you're given a paltry bonus and told that your dance was mediocre. In theory you're supposed to dance around with the Wii Remote and charge a bonus meter to determine your multiplier. For example, you are given the chance to get a score multiplier for a round by dancing.

And then there are the inane mini games that are occasionally forced upon you. You're also supposed to be able to nudge the wheel left or right before it stops to keep the wheel from stopping on a category that you want to avoid, but I could never get that feature to work correctly. Question categories are selected by spinning a wheel like that in Wheel of Fortune, but the game seems to have a little trouble sensing the spinning control-button pushing combo that must be done to spin the wheel. For example, 'buzzing in' to answer a question is not simply handled with a button press, but you need to jerk the controller up as well. One of the biggest problems with the game is that it insists on taking advantage of the Wii's motion-sensing features even though they are not needed for a game of this type.

#Smarty pants wii for free

It's straight-forward and unexciting presentation and game options make it look pretty plain compared to browser-based trivia games that you can play for free on the internet. Smarty Pants is a trivia game designed for the Wii, but it doesn't work that well as a trivia game or a Wii-specific title.