Active Life: Outdoor Challenge On Nintendo Wii
NAMCO BANDAI Games has announced Active Life: Outdoor Challenge, the first game in Active series which is set to release this Summer. It offers a variety of mini-games that are both humorous and challenging.
Using the Nintendo Wii remote controllers and a special board designed especially for the game, you can compete in more than ten single-player and multiplayer activities. The board looks like the Wii board from the Wii Fit games, but it’s larger and NAMCO calls it an Active Life Mat. IGN reports details about the mat.
The mat is divided into two sets of four button inputs: a blue side and an amber side. If you’re just playing a single player event you’d put your feet in the center point and tap the appropriate buttons by stepping down on them. For two player events, both cozy up on the same mat: one person takes the blue side, the other on the amber side. The game only uses one mat, so you won’t be able to bring your own personal mat over for the two person competition.
Active Life: Outdoor Challenge seems to hope to duplicate the success of Wii Fit as they both includes games which are more fitness-oriented rather than standard shooter or racing games. However, compared to Wii Fit, Outdoor Challenge might need to be cheaper if people are to choose it over the former. On the other hand, for those who already have Wii Fit and want something a little more “active,” then this product from NAMCO might prove a better purchase.
The guys at 1UP have had the opportunity to play Outdoor Challenge for a while now, and share their opinion with us.
The first event we tried was the log jumper. Standing on the center squares as the default stance, we had to run in place to speed down a straight track. Meanwhile, logs are coming down different lanes; to avoid those, we jumped off the pad to jump in the game, or hit the left or right arrow to change lanes.
Photo: © Adam
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