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| From: Crave Entertainment
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $12.72
You Save: $17.27 (58%)
New (15) Used (5) from $12.72
Avg. Customer Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 490
Platform: Nintendo Wii
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 40002
UPC: 650008400021
EAN: 0650008400021
ASIN: B000QJLQBM
Release Date: August 21, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great PS2 Game!! November 24, 2007
0 out of 9 found this review helpful
This game is great! I got it for my PS2, and after a few minutes to get the hang of it, I started to have a blast. I love Career mode, you can really customize your player and build up your skills.
The other players get harder to play against, and make you have to work for a win down the road, which is great!.
The graphics are great, very realistic and will keep you busy for days and days playing. If you love bowling, you'll love this game!
 There is an obvious design flaw for the Wii version November 7, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am going to make this short and sweet. Do not buy this game because there is a very annoying design flaw that will prevent you from enjoying this game. It happens after you have lined up your shot and you are ready to begin your approach. You must click the B button to start the approach, but alas the game gets stuck and nothing happens!!! You can click and move your Wii-mote around all you want but nothing will happen for up to 2 minutes! Ridiculous. The characters are beyond dumb looking. The graphics of the lanes and the oil feature are OK. But the whole "approach" design flaw will annoy the heck out of you and you will never play it more than once. Fortunately, I bought mine used and returned it the next day. The Wii Sports Bowling game is far superior. I hope they come out with a new version of that with different lanes.
 It's OK but October 18, 2007
It's OK but I think that we are so used to Tiger woods and the ease and user friendliness of that game made us a little disappointed with the profiles setup. But I guess all in all it's OK.
Brunswick Bowling is Tricky October 17, 2007
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
We had so much fun playing the Wii Sports version of bowling, we thought we'd LOVE this version. But it's actually too difficult for my 9 year-old grandson. He prefers the original version. The ball is much less predictable with Brunswick Bowling. Takes more practice and adult patience to master.
Could have been a lot better October 13, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I've been bowling for years and was yearning for something with a little more realism than the Wii Sports version of bowling (which I do enjoy playing).
My thoughts as I played this for the first time:
"Why are all of the characters for the quick play mode so fugly?"
"Why is there a several second delay between my movement and the character's?"
"Why isn't there a multiplayer career mode?"
"Does the house ball have to be so incredibly crappy?!?"
"Why is my custom made character still pretty darn fugly???"
To elaborate on my thoughts - the characters look like something designed by someone taking a correspondence course on how to create game skins. I'd much rather have something cute and cartoon-y than a freaky sickly slacker weirdo.
The alleys themselves are pretty nicely designed though. I did like the concept of being able to play in exotic alleys.
I would really have liked some "glow in the dark" bowling - equivalent to what some alleys offer late on Friday and Saturday nights. If I had my druthers, there would be some other fun gimmicks when you're not playing in career mode. Such as, what some alleys use to get you in there on slack nights - colored pins. If your 1 pin is red and you get a strike you win $100.
Or how about Rock n' bowl? Set up your own custom audio...something, anything to give this more of the Friday night Jersey Shore bowling that grew up with.
Back to the annoyances, one thing that seemed relatively benign at first, but turned into a major annoyance after an hour of playing this were the audio loops of the background ambient noise and the constant reiteration of a man's voice saying something like, "Come sit on my knee," about every 15 seconds. I muted it after a while, although it did seem suitable for the creepy looking characters we selected.
So after a few quick plays for warm-up, my boyfriend and I set up a couple of new ugly characters for "career mode". My EXPECTATION was that we could form some kind of multi-player league (which I hope will eventually materialize when a better bowling game for the Wii comes out). Better yet, I would love a multi-player league where you could play online against others!!! But alas, it wasn't meant to be with Brunswick Bowling. Robert had to sit in the recliner while I fumbled my way through league night scoring a whopping top score of 64 with the illustrious House Ball I was furnished with.
Now, I've bowled with some house balls in my time (including one that had a Tootsie Roll stuck in the thumb hole), but never one that zigzagged down the lane like the Brunswick Bowling House Ball. Even when I used the area that should have had the least oil, it was still all over the place like a possessed wombat.
My biggest beef is the huge delay between my movement of the Wiimote and the character's response. If you've ever done any internet gaming where you have significant lag, that's what it felt like to me. It was unnatural, distracting and frustrating, but hopefully, whoever develops the next bowling game for the Wii, will not rush it to market like this one and maybe we won't have to deal with such nuisances.
My final verdict on this is that it is best suited for solo play and most likely geared toward those who didn't enjoy the Wii Sports version of bowling. Since my bowling buddy and I couldn't even bowl together other than in the quickly boring quick play mode, this title is relegated to the bottom of my game pile - right there with Far Cry and Rapala Fishing Tournament.
Sorry Brunswick, I expected something better.
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