Look elsewhere for a family game. This one is not very exciting.

There are reviews at: familyfriendlygaming, gamechroniicles, gamespot, IGN & gamevortex. all give mediocre scores.
all agree the graphics have nice details, but having ALL game play in 4 quadrants even in single player mode is annoying, lazy & makes it hard to see.
the instructions are vague but the controls are complex. I found the controls to be interesting complex like an old arcade game, but I couldn't understand what they wanted exactly. you never use the nunchuck for any game. all agreed the simpler the controls, the better it worked. I had trouble with response with even lifting/lowering flags in one simple mini-game & felt that you really had to put oommpphhh into your movements for it to be recognized (or maybe this game is really that broken sometimes).
there is debate about how broken/responsive the controls are or how much the A.I. cheat. some reviewers had trouble with the balance, but I excelled at it & easy for me such as balancing on cushions or running balance. I found the barrel throw was impossible as you have to hit A at the right time & then lift the wii mote in perfect even balance. I found that you needed to have split second millisecond timing for all movements in all the games which is VERY frustrating like it wanted to be a simulation. even firing a cannon had the arc & slowness for further distances like real life or running on a barrel had delayed response like reality.
This game would have been better if there was some humor involved, some of the sound bites help, but there's not enough & the A.I. movements are on a loop before/after or even during a game.
the only customization at first is choosing a family member from kid to grandparent.
There are different sections to play in a tournament, but you have to win all those games to unlock more games. only half the game is unlocked. you can do battle/quickplay of 1 or more games with 1-4 players at any time, but it won't unlock anything.
be prepared to see "FAILED" a lot & a lot of forced replay until you excel at games in order to unlock more.

this game had some great ideas in terms of use of controls & more complex sport mini-games to keep interest & focus, but because of poor instructions, small screen so you can't see ahead to time your responses, non-warned sim complexity, quirky A.I., inability to have different A.I. difficulty & obvious lazy/poor programming, this game only manages to frustrate.
wisely, I only rent all my games first.

Fun for kids

This is a fun game to play with the family . Lots of cool game curling, dodge ball, wood chopping. Fun playing it on the Wii

GREAT

its a great game to play with all family. I WOULD LIKE TO BUY ANOTHER ONE, TO MY NEFIU. ES UN EXCELLENTE JUEGO PARA JUGAR CON LA FAMILIA. LO RECOMIENDO, PUES ES DIVERTIDO

Not that great

I thought this game was going to be fun for my family to play but it was very difficult for my 13 year old to figure out what to do to play it. I would say that its not a good game to buy for children. To complicated which makes it not fun. I don't think I would refer this game to anyone.

wii game

fun game... although havent played it much but the kids love it.. It is a family game so everyone can play the The game..