Crave screwed this game up. They had a chance to make a killer bowling game but opted on the easy way out. They cheated.

The motion sensing technology is used minimally by the games interaction between the player and the bowler on screen.

It has nuances, but they are easily reproducable.

If you want to know how to play, which the game does a poor job of explaning, read on:

Speed is determined by how long you hold the B button down.

If you hold the remote with the buttons facing up through the entire swing, it will go straight.

If (right handers) you hold the remote with the buttons facing left all the way through the swing, it will hook.

I think you can find angles inbetween that give less hook.

The accuracy seems to be dependant on how slow and easy you swing the remote. The chances you tug the ball far left and snipe a 7 pin are much smaller if you swing it slow and easy every shot.

God forbid you actually try to put some arm into the shot. You'll be punished for doing so.

Pin physics is about 80-85% with the Wii Sports being closer to 90%+. Solid 9 pins anyone? With hardly any angle whatsoever, you can leave them like crazy.

The player drops the ball onto the lane causing it to bounce in a near unnoticable fasion. No loft capability whatsoever.

Want a $200 bowling ball? The cheapest one in the pro-shop is $1400. Or how about a $300 wrist brace? I'll take two.

I won my first tournament and earned $3,000. All I did was throw the ball straight and shot 230-250+ every game. If I hadn't quit league sessions mid-stride I'd be undefeated in league too.

Your guy is so unskilled at first you may as well just bowl straight until you get his stats up. The quick-game mode character with the 75+ stats gives me an idea what a career-mode bowler would be like. It's hard for me to shoot over 180 with these uber-bowlers, but I'll admit to not being very good.

The game is just a huge dissapointment to me, but it's just my opinion. If someone makes a game with more options using an improved Wii Sports motion sensing method I could die happy.

I like the oil patterns. They play fairly accurate so far as I can tell.

They should have let you buy bags. Right now from what I see I can only ever have two balls in my arsenal.

I'll give it more time. I have to see what a bowler with high stats plays like.

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Tsunami H2O

Yeah, this game does suck pretty bad.  The controls are whacked out, pin physics kinda goofy (the walls and backs bounce a TON), the graphics SUCK, the gameplay goes by very slowly...  it has tons of issues.  At least it has realistic oil patterns and several bowling balls to use!

Well, I figured out the best method for early in the Career mode when your on-screen counterpart is horrible.  To avoid his constant inaccuary issues, just throw the ball as slow and straight as possible.  I hit B while holding the controller at my chest with the buttons pointing straight up, then do a VERY slow, deliberate backswing and let go of the B button at the top of my backswing.  I never actually swing my arm forward.  The ball breaks maybe 3 boards left even doing this, but at least it's controllable.  Carry sucks if you hit light (guaranteed 7 pin) or heavy (guaranteed 4-7), but at least you don't snipe 7 pins constantly from tugging it left or pitching it right into the gutter.  Hopefully later in the career mode when my bowler gets more talent I'll be able to actually hook it.