The Story: The battle for Gold Medals and personal bests ignites excitement and healthy competition in World Championship Athletics. Athletes from all over the world run, throw, jump and swim for victory. Millimeters and split seconds will decide the winners. Athletes compete in 28 summer time disciplines, including hurdles, high diving, javelin and pole vault. Customize your character and develop your career as a professional athlete in career mode or challenge your friends in head-to-head competition.
- Supports the Wii Balance Board
- Create and develop your own athlete
- Tons of nationalities to choose from
- Compete in 28 different events
- Up to 4 players splitscreen or hotseat
List Price: $ 29.99
Price: $ 10.91
Don’t Waste Money on this Game,
I recently bought a Wii and Wii Sports Resort and wanted to add more interactive games to play. I thought World Championship Athletics would be a good choice, but this game was really disappointing. The game comes with a lot of Olympic style sports but I found a majority of them to be very difficult to master. Unlike Wii Sports Resort, your movements are not picked up easily by the sensor bar which makes for very frustrating game play. Another frustrating feature is that this game requires the use of the nunchuck. That’s not a big deal in itself, however, you are not allowed to disconnect the nunchuck on events that you don’t even use the thing. That means you have to hold the nunchuck in one hand while trying to master the controls/movements with your other hand. It’s so frustrating especially since the tutorials that come with this game are mediocre at best. The game manual doesn’t help either. There’s a lot of guesswork and trial and error to learn how to play each event. Another issue is that it takes forever to transition from one event to the next. If you decide to quit the event you are currently playing to switch to a different event, the game takes forever to load to the new one. Not to mention you have to endure watching some stupid monkey dancing around your screen while you wait for your game to load. He even shows up at your events. It’s a stupid and needless distraction. The game luckily didn’t cost me $49 like most Wii games do, but now I wish I would’ve bought Mario Cart instead. Don’t waste your money on this third-party garbage. Buy a Wii game made by Nintendo.
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