Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #247 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: RTL
• Released on: 2009-02-27
• Platform: Nintendo Wii
• Format: Unknown format
• Dimensions: 2.03 pounds

Product Features
Fully supported for use with the Nintendo Wii Balance Board

18 disciplines out of 11 different, action-packed sports

New disciplines: Snowboard Half pipe & Biathlon

A challenging campaign and reworked career mode

20 gadgets and several special characters to unlock

Multiplayer party fun: hot seat (4 players), split screen (2 players)

Manufacturer's Description
Winter Sports 2009 is the market leading winter sports compilation.

The new successor packs tons of reworked and extended elements of its successful predecessors.

Numerous innovative features have been added and optimized.

With snowboard half pipe and biathlon, two new sports have been implemented. The career has been extended, now featuring over 40 missions.

Customer Reviews

Winter Sports 2009 makes you feel like a real sporter!
It may take some used to using the controls or using the Wii Balance board for these games, but if your a winter sport lover it's certainly a lot of fun!

Skating is really hard because then you have to use the Nunchuk and have good eye-hand coordination (and I don't).

It seems as if you've jumped inside the TV and have become a part of a Winter Sport Program.

I like these games and am definitely not sorry that I purchased them!

Not losing sleep over this one
It is probably better than its predecessor, but still not something I would stay up late to play. I liked the winter sports activities in Wii Fit and was looking for something more respresentative of winter sports in general. Overall I cannot say that I was too impressed.

Best implementations: Bobsleigh, luge and skeleton are probably the most fun. Even though curling is not a sport that excites me, I think the implementation is good and I found it worthwhile.

Worst implementations: Figure skating. Figure skating is nothing more than a series of prompts on screen, requiring one to swith the Wii-mote and Nunchuk in specific directions (like a bit more expensive version of Wiiware Helix).

Wii Balance Board is not a good match. Wii Fit did a much better job with its winter sports activities. THe only exception here are the bobsleigh, luge and skeleton. At least with skeleton one can make it a more realistic by placing your backside on the WBB and support your head with a pillow or two ...

More irrating is the commentary. I could just have well been listing to EuroVision commentary - It's that bad! Luckily it can be turned off. The music is good though.

good and bad in places
as i said in the title there are some positive and negative points to this game

positive -

the ski jumping is brilliant with easy enough controls and great graphics, it is quite easy to be competitive at all levels of difficulty

the bob and the skeleton are very realistic and again easy controls to use

the figure skating is quite difficult but very acheivable if you have quick reactions

speed skating is easy to be competitive

negatives -

the skiing is a nightmare - very difficult to produce a competitive time whilst not missing any gates + the slalom is near impossible

the biathlon has easy controls but is hard to post a competitve time

the speed skating should be an all out shake the controls as fast as you can as after all it should be SPEED

the curling is confusing

the commentators are either amusing or annoying depending on whether you enjoy their sarcasm


overall though it is easy to spend hours on certain events such as the ski jump and the bob so it is spending £16 just for that