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[7800Lover]

I own Carnival Games for the Wii and it is quite a fun game. I only found out today that a sequel has been put out called...(surprise!) New Carnival Games. I understand that it has new games, including bumper cars and a fun house.

Has anyone played the game? Is it any good? Is it better or worse than the original Carnival Games?

[Nesbroslash]

What?! You liked the original? I thought that for the most part that the controls were crap in a lot of games. The only game I was really good at was Bowler Coaster. Meh, I sold it to get a 20.00 deposit toward Brawl back in March '08,

[7800Lover]

Nesbroslash, on Thu Oct 7, 2010 7:01 PM, said:

What?! You liked the original? I thought that for the most part that the controls were crap in a lot of games. The only game I was really good at was Bowler Coaster. Meh, I sold it to get a 20.00 deposit toward Brawl back in March '08,

I know the original game was panned by some critics...yet it has sold very well. It's one of the top selling third-party Wii games and IMHO it makes a fun party game.

But seriously, how does New Carnival Games play in comparison to the original title?

[Tr3vor]

My grandma bought the first one. I hated it. Probably gonna hate this just as much.

[supercat]

I have a disk called Circus Games which I'd like except for one thing: so far as I can tell, there's no way to avoid exiting to the menu at the end of every game, and both the menu reload and game reload take seemingly forever. I'd like playing the games if I could actually spend some time playing them, but it seems I spend as much time loading as playing.

[Koopa64]

Carnival Games: Mini Golf is one of the best shovelware games I've ever played on Wii. It's so bad it's good. Thankfully, it's not broken enough to ruin the game, but just there's just enough gimpy content to make it hilarious to play when overtired.

[snakeboy]

7800Lover, on Thu Oct 7, 2010 5:58 PM, said:

I own Carnival Games for the Wii and it is quite a fun game. I only found out today that a sequel has been put out called...(surprise!) New Carnival Games. I understand that it has new games, including bumper cars and a fun house.

Has anyone played the game? Is it any good? Is it better or worse than the original Carnival Games?

I liked the first one too. If you get a few people together to play, it's pretty fun. I even like to play by myself occasionally. Sure, the controls aren't perfect, but I thought they worked well enough for most of the games. New Carnival Games actually uses motionplus, not sure if you knew that or not.

I've been hoping to see at least one review for this game, but unfortunately most game reviewers' jobs are to only review big name games made by companies who spend a lot of money advertising on their site, rather than reviewing a wide variety of games as a service to gamers. I mean, several million people bought the first Carnival Games, so wouldn't you think there are people out there wanting to read reviews about the sequel? Sure, even if they did review this game, it would probably only get mediocre scores at best, but if the gist of most of the reviews was that it's shallow but fun, I would probably run out and buy it.

I guess my advice to you would be to do what I'm going to do, and rent it (if you can).