Big Beach Sports is a sports game for the Wii developed by HB Studios and produced by THQ. The game is a collection of six beach sports simulations, in which players compete on a beach resort location. The sports include: American football, volleyball, soccer, bocce, cricket and disc golf. The games are not highly realistic simulations of the sports, but more orientated towards unrealistic physics, stylized beach scenarios, and a simplified rule set. It is most notable for being the third Wii game (the first being Pokémon Battle Revolution and the second being Geometry Wars: Galaxies) to feature connectivity to the Nintendo DS. Big Beach Sports also features the first cricket game on the Wii. It was released on 24 June 2008.
The DS application downloads a small application from the Wii, which allows the player to draw the created character's face (eyes, ears, nose, mouth and eyebrows) and upload it back from the Nintendo DS to the Wii. The character will then appear that way in the game. This application does not require any DS game to be inserted into the Nintendo DS.
Gameplayedit
All of the games allow up to 4 players playing at the same time, or in the case of Bocce and Disc Golf, taking alternate turns. All the games use the Wii Remote only, no games require the use of the Nunchuck or any other peripheral.
After creating a character, the player can compete in tournaments against increasingly tougher opponents in any of the sports. Playing Quick Play games and Tournament games earns the character Skill Points. These are then used to calculate the difficulty of the CPU opponent for future Quick Play matches. Hence, after completing all tournaments for all the sports in Big Beach Sports, where each game has a preset difficulty, the player can then return to Quick Play and continue to max out Skill Points (999 points) for each of the six sports. In the case of most of the sports, however, the game becomes extremely challenging and the AI opponents are much tougher to beat after reaching 900 skill points.
Big Beach Sports received a fairly poor reception from critics, with an average Metacritic score of just 44%.[2]IGN was scathing, deriding the game as a "true cash-in project that ignores some of the great control fundamentals laid down with Nintendo's game for an unintelligent waggle-and-win design".[3]
THQ CEO Brian Farrell referred to the game as "an unmitigated success" in the company's Q1 2009 earnings call[7] and referred to it in his strategic plan at the end of 2008.[8] It received a "Platinum" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA),[9] indicating sales of at least 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom.[10]
Sequeledit
A sequel, Big Beach Sports 2, was released for the Wii in 2010.[11]
Referencesedit
^ abc"Big Beach Sports Related Games". GameSpot.com. 24 June 2008.
^ ab"Big Beach Sports". Metacritic. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
^ ab"Big Beach Sports Review". IGN. 19 August 2008.
^Cocker, Guy (27 June 2008). "Big Beach Sports Review". GameSpot. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
^Lafferty, Michael (29 August 2008). . GameZone. Archived from the original on 26 February 2010. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
^Orry, Tom (27 June 2008). "Big Beach Sports Review". VideoGamer.com. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
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This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Big Beach Sports news newspapers books scholar JSTOR August 2009 Learn how and when to remove this message Big Beach Sports is a sports game for the Wii developed by HB Studios and produced by THQ The game is a collection of six beach sports simulations in which players compete on a beach resort location The sports include American football volleyball soccer bocce cricket and disc golf The games are not highly realistic simulations of the sports but more orientated towards unrealistic physics stylized beach scenarios and a simplified rule set It is most notable for being the third Wii game the first being Pokemon Battle Revolution and the second being Geometry Wars Galaxies to feature connectivity to the Nintendo DS Big Beach Sports also features the first cricket game on the Wii It was released on 24 June 2008 Big Beach SportsDeveloper s HB StudiosPublisher s THQPlatform s WiiReleaseNA 24 June 2008 1 AU 26 June 2008 1 EU 27 June 2008 1 Genre s SportsMode s Single player multiplayer Contents 1 DS to Wii Connectivity 2 Gameplay 3 Reception 4 Sequel 5 References 6 External linksDS to Wii Connectivity editThe DS application downloads a small application from the Wii which allows the player to draw the created character s face eyes ears nose mouth and eyebrows and upload it back from the Nintendo DS to the Wii The character will then appear that way in the game This application does not require any DS game to be inserted into the Nintendo DS Gameplay editAll of the games allow up to 4 players playing at the same time or in the case of Bocce and Disc Golf taking alternate turns All the games use the Wii Remote only no games require the use of the Nunchuck or any other peripheral After creating a character the player can compete in tournaments against increasingly tougher opponents in any of the sports Playing Quick Play games and Tournament games earns the character Skill Points These are then used to calculate the difficulty of the CPU opponent for future Quick Play matches Hence after completing all tournaments for all the sports in Big Beach Sports where each game has a preset difficulty the player can then return to Quick Play and continue to max out Skill Points 999 points for each of the six sports In the case of most of the sports however the game becomes extremely challenging and the AI opponents are much tougher to beat after reaching 900 skill points Reception editReceptionAggregate scoreAggregatorScoreMetacritic44 100 2 Review scoresPublicationScoreGameSpot4 5 10 4 GameZone4 0 10 5 IGN2 5 10 3 VideoGamer com6 10 6 Big Beach Sports received a fairly poor reception from critics with an average Metacritic score of just 44 2 IGN was scathing deriding the game as a true cash in project that ignores some of the great control fundamentals laid down with Nintendo s game for an unintelligent waggle and win design 3 THQ CEO Brian Farrell referred to the game as an unmitigated success in the company s Q1 2009 earnings call 7 and referred to it in his strategic plan at the end of 2008 8 It received a Platinum sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association ELSPA 9 indicating sales of at least 300 000 copies in the United Kingdom 10 Sequel editA sequel Big Beach Sports 2 was released for the Wii in 2010 11 References edit a b c Big Beach Sports Related Games GameSpot com 24 June 2008 a b Big Beach Sports Metacritic Retrieved 5 June 2022 a b Big Beach Sports Review IGN 19 August 2008 Cocker Guy 27 June 2008 Big Beach Sports Review GameSpot Retrieved 5 June 2022 Lafferty Michael 29 August 2008 Big Beach Sports Review GameZone Archived from the original on 26 February 2010 Retrieved 5 June 2022 Orry Tom 27 June 2008 Big Beach Sports Review VideoGamer com Retrieved 5 June 2022 Archived copy PDF Archived from the original PDF on 26 April 2012 Retrieved 26 October 2011 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint archived copy as title link THQ Reports Fiscal 2009 Third Quarter Results Archived from the original on 21 April 2012 Retrieved 2 December 2009 ELSPA Sales Awards Platinum Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association Archived from the original on 15 May 2009 Retrieved 8 June 2019 Caoili Eric 26 November 2008 ELSPA Wii Fit Mario Kart Reach Diamond Status in UK Gamasutra Archived from the original on 18 September 2017 THQ Announces Big Beach Sports 2 Exclusively for Wii IGN April 2010 External links editBig Beach Sports at IMDb nbsp Big Beach Sports at MobyGames Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Big Beach Sports amp oldid 1183021513, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
