Hi everyone,

I just baught Wii Motion Plus (WMP from now on) and I first tried it with Grand Slam Tennis. I wasn't very happy about it tbh. The only thing different with WMP plugged in, is that you can make the character swtich between a forehand and a backhand. I was hoping i could make the character point his racket to the air and everything, just 1:1. I was also able to play it whitout watching and almost without any force (I even accidentally hit the ball while strapping the wii mote to my wrist).

So i decided to try PGA 10. Same story. I wasn't able to aim the club to the sky or to the left or right. And i also didn't like the fact that i hit the ball kinda hard without a lot of force. I decided to give WMP one last chance with disc golf. I didn't like the game-mode, but I finally saw some WMP action. I moved the disc around with and without WMP, and there is a big difference!

I understand (well.. I hope) that aiming your racket/club to the sky only can't be done because EA didn't build in this features (same story with the amount of force you need). But this topic is about the first impression of WMP. And since these are the only games for it at the moment, I must say that I'm disappointed. Maybe it's also because i don't like the games, but I think WMP could have a better start with games like Wii Sports Resort (or Red Steel 2). Games that show the full potential of WMP.

I was looking forward to an evening/night of fun with WMP, but I already plugged it out. I think it will stay unlplugged untill Sport Resort is out (or another WMP game, but I'm not sure there will be before Sports).

Please let me know what you guys think and how you feel about your first WMP experience!

 

Yeah, I really think that Wii Sports Resort is gonna be the true test of the WM+. Personally im finding it very good on TW10 in both normal and disk golf. Cant wait for some more games to come along that support it

 

Thnx for the replies. Maybe I just don't like the games or I should spend some more time playing them. And to be honest: I just want to try the sword fights (Sports or Red Steel 2). My first impression stays negative though.

I would never sell my WMP's! Still looking forward to Sports/Red Steel. I just hate the fact that I won't use them untill these games are out. But.. I will give GST and PGA10 some more time. Any news about other WMP games that will be released a bit sooner?

 

Virtua Tennis 2009 is heaps better that GST well worth a go if you can

 

TC, I felt the same way when I first tried TW10 with WMP, I was like "whats the big deal, it almost feels the same". Then I took it off and couldn't beleive the difference. It is also really nice to not do any accidental swings anymore, and the new putting mode is AMAZING

 

Dissappointing!
based on Grand Slam Tennis (haven't got anything else to play in Sweden so far). I'm not expecting full 1:1 tracking of a virtual racket doing all crazy stunts, but I'm expecting it not to f**k up, which it does too much. About 20% of the time, the guy pulls back his arm (left or right), even if I don't move the controller an inch. I also find that doing slice/topspin/flat hit and placement is not very accurate (a lot of the time completelly wrong). And yeah, I am good at real tennis.

Here's a tip by the way, try to return to a neutral position as quick as possible after each hit. The game seems to calibrate to a new neutral position after every hit (a certain amount of time after), and if you're off from your neutral position, then you're smoked.

If this "calibration" is required as often as GST does it, I can see some serious limitations of this technology. It will probably work fine with games that use a button press intuitively as part of the game mechanism, e.g. (I'm assuming, correct me if wrong) in golf press A when you're in your neutral stance ready to swing or wii sports frisbee, press A to select the frisbee (with cursor pointing at said frisbee).

Also I don't like the fact that the motion plus device makes it impossible to use wireless nunchucks like Nyko Kama (and others), since you can't connect the "dongle" for the wireless nunchuck (not even if you remove the stupid rubber sleeve (which I don't like either).

 

You need a charger like the one I just got. It's an Induction charger put out by Energizer. You can have the Wiimote jackets and/or Motion Plus plugged in and it charges no problem. You don't even plug the Wiimote in, just put it on the tray. Only enough space for about two at once, but it's still an awesome charger.

 

Thnx 9th_Sage. That thing looks great! I already have a charger, but its very tempting

 

That is the main problem with GST at the moment. Why does the game always wants you to go to the neutral position after every ball... Those calibration should be made once at the very beginning. The way they did it with GST is just awkward! I haven`t tried VT09 but what I heard is, that it is suppose to be better control-wise.

At this moment I have to say, that M+ offers many possibilities but I`m not quiet sure, if developers are going to make use of these new possibilities like they should do!

 

In this videos (particularly the table tennis one, if not faked ) you can see, that the WM+ doesn`t need a calibration after every ball. So screw GST

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/rztj/resort/...orts/index.html