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WHEEL OF FORTUNE!!! Now it is on the Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS. Also, for the first time ever, you can play along with host Pat Sajak. Never before has Pat Sajak been on a Wheel of Fortune video game. Also, his voice is there along with Vanna White and the announcer Charlie O'Donnell. Also, do not worry about getting confused. Charlie O'Donnell, Pat Sajak, and Vanna White all tell you step-by-step how to play the game, whether you are using Wii Speak or not. Please make note of that, you do NOT need Wii Speak to play this exicting game. All Wii Speak enables you to do is play the game by calling out the letters and solving the puzzles using your voice, just as if you were in Culver City, California in Sony Pictures Studios on the actual show.
Now, I have been to a WheelMobile event. I have multiple Wheel of Fortune games. I have played the Wheel of Fortune games for the following systems:
-Super Nintendo Entertainment System
-Various CD-ROM games (there have been more than one Wheel of Fortune game made for the PC or MAC).
-Wheel of Fortune Plug-n-Play
-Handheld Wheel of Fortune game
-Wheel of Fortune board game
Out of that list, the one that comes closest to giving you as much fun as Wheel of Fortune for the Nintendo Wii is the Wheel of Fortune Plug-n-Play because you can literally spin the wheel. However, there are no people on the game whatsoever (nobody at all, not even Vanna White).
Now, here is what I really love about this game. It is literally to the show. After Pat and Vanna come out, you start with a toss-up puzzle worth $1,000. Don't worry, they explain during the game how to play the toss-up puzzle, so you don't even need the instruction manual. Then, after the first toss-up is complete, Pat Sajak has you do another toss-up worth $2,000 and the right to start the first round. After that toss-up is complete, Charlie O'Donnell explains about the Jackpot because it is the Jackpot Round and he explains about what trip is being put on the wheel. Now it is Round 1. They explain how to spin the wheel, purchase a vowel for $250.00, or solve the puzzle. If you are playing without Wii Speak, do not worry. They give you plenty of time to pick your letters or fill in the puzzle if you are solving it.
Finish round one. Pat Sajak goes over to the winner and congratulates him or her. Then he announces that you are going to commercial. There are exciting games to play during the commercials. I want to leave them as a surprise because they are that much fun.
Now you are at Round 2. The only exciting thing about Round 2 is, like Round 1, the following is on the wheel:
-The trip Charlie O'Donnell talked about
-The Wild Card
-The "Free Play" wedge
-The "$1,000,000" wedge in between the two bankrupts
Also, round two or round three could be a "Prize Puzzle." This means that whoever solves the puzzle will win an exciting trip and the value of the trip will be added to your score.
Round 3 is the "Mystery Round." The Mystery Wedges are worth $1,000 for every consonant that appears but behind one of the 2 Mystery Wedges is a $10,000 cash prize. Behind the other is a Bankrupt. Will you go for it or play it safe?
After round 3, Pat Sajak has you do the last toss-up valued at $3,000. Then you finish the game until the Final Spin where Pat gives the wheel a spin and each consonant is worth $1,000 plus whatever he lands on, so if he lands on the $5,000 wedge, each consonant is worth $6,000. The vowels are free of charge during the Final Spin.
Then, whoever has the highest score goes on to the Bonus Round. If you have the Million Dollar Wedge, you could be playing for $1,000,000! Otherwise you are playing for a measly $100,000 (lol). You spin the bonus round wheel. Then you have to solve the bonus round puzzle. Pat Sajak gives you the letters R,S,T,L,N, and E. Then you get to pick three consonants and one vowel. If you have the Wild Card with you, you get to pick four consonants and one vowel. Then you get a good amount of time to solve the puzzle, or you could just click on give up.
So, there is my review. I give this game 9 out 10 stars! Go out and get this game. I would pay $50.00 for this game, so it is a steal at $30.00. Plus, it has the theme music. What more could you want!
It's Wheel of Fortune as it should have been ages ago! It's America's Game! Let's play Wheel of Fortune!
Also, I think the Mii Pat Sajak and the Mii Vanna White are dating!!!
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I don't regret buying the game from Amazon for $27.99, but wouldn't have been happy to have paid fify as was the selling price at several online sites I checked out before here. The one good thing is that it is suppose to have over 8,000 puzzles and I imagine that it uses the memory on the Wii to keep track of what you've seen and not seen.It does give WAYYYY too much time to solve puzzles and any player can sit and wait forever while making up his mind whether to spin, solve or buy a vowel. It does need improvement, but it is worth thirty bucks and you will have some fun. Me and my family set a rule that you have to have integrity and honesty on the pop-up puzzles, because once you ring in that you know a toss up puzzle, you then have fifty seconds to solve it and if you have three people, that's a lot of waiting if someone doesn't know it and wants to cheat. We also set a time limit of like five seconds in between deciding whether to spin, solve or what have you.
So to sum it up, you'll enjoy it but I hope the maker of the game makes some adjustments.
Just a tip for anyone who may read this: If you go to Wheel of Fortune's official website, you can download a trial game from "GameHouse" with sixty minutes of play time and the game cost ten bucks to buy after that. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THE OFFICIAL GAME FROM THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE WEBSITE. That game is only one player and the second day of playing, several puzzles began repeating. It is also a hangman style game in that if you miss five times, game over. I would expect much more from the WOF website.
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I was so excited to hear that Wii was coming out with this game. I waited to read a few reviews before buying it and the reviews were all positive so I bought it and couldnt be happier!This game is exactly like the the game show. It's a lot of fun to playeven alone.
I'd 100% reccommend this game.
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I purchased this for my wife who likes to watch the tv show every night. Seeing how that most game show ports are mediocre at best, we rented this before purchasing. But I'd say you can go right out and purchase this one.The game is just like the tv show and it's tons of fun!
The characters, voices, and game play are just like the show.
Where the commercial breaks would normally occur you can play puzzle mini-games which are also quite fun.
For those who wouldn't want to play the mini games, there is an option to disable this.
You can choose your Mii characters to play and their expressions when they win or lose are hilarious!
Overall a very fun game and with thousands of puzzles, you should be enjoying this for years to come.
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I purchased this game after buying and liking the Jeopardy WII game put out by the same publisher. This game is very true to the actual game show and has all of the current Wheel of Fortune rules, which depending on perspective is either good or bad.You begin the game with 2 toss-up puzzles. The first is worth $1000, the second is worth $2000 and control of the wheel for the first puzzle. You then have three puzzles to complete, one of which will be the prize puzzle.
In between the puzzles are mini games which you play to win extra outfits, prizes, and opportunities for new set designs. There are 3 different mini games. One gives you the letters RSTLNE and then 4 other letters guessed by an actual contestant from the past, and either player can ring in to guess the puzzoe. Another mini game is high low. Each player spins the wheel and Vanna calls out either high or low. The player whose spin is either the highest or lowest gets the first chance to solve the mini game puzzle. The last mini game allows each player to alternate choosing 3 consonants and 1 vowel. Whoever gets the most letters turned over on the board gets the first chance to guess the puzzle.
After those 3 puzzles and mini games, there is another toss up puzzle and whoever wins gets to begin the final round. There is always a total of 3 plays allowed in the final round before the bell rings and Pat tells you time is up and he gets to give the wheel a final spin. Then whoever wins gets to participate in the bonus round.
This game stays very true to the game...there is the Jackpot space on the board, the million dollar space, and the 1000 question mark where you can flip it over for a chance at 10,000 or a bankrupt. There is also a Free Play and a Wild Card which if kept can be used for an extra consonant during the bonus round. It is fun to use the different set designs once they are unlocked. They are well done...they are Hawaii, Las Vegas, Hollywood, Washington D.C., and New York City.
Since the game has dropped the ball so badly with Wii Speak, we don't even bother and play this using only Wiimotes which actually work better than one would expect.
We thoroughly enjoy this game, and I recommend it, but it is not perfect so here are the complaints my husband and I have with it:
For the majority of the games, the outcome is based solely on who wins the round with the prize puzzle...usually you win about 15 grand if you win that round which is hard to compete with.
You land on Bankrupt and Lose a Turn much more than you statistically should...we have kept track and we have never gone more that 5 spins without a Bankrupt or Lose a Turn and we have played over 30 games. We each average about 7 bankrupt spins per person per game. There is not a lot of control over spinning the wheel. You push the b button and there is a power meter and you swing the remote when you have the power you want, but it is definitely not an exact science and it is all luck. You aren't even able to watch the wheel the whole time it spins as it flashes you to views of the set, Vanna, and the contestants. I think the game developers secretly made it that way to toy with the players ;)
As others have mentioned, you are allowed 60 seconds to guess a puzzle which gets super cheap. You can ring in without knowing a toss up puzzle and you have 60 seconds to try and figure the puzzle out if you didn't know it. You also have 60 seconds per turn in the final spin puzzle which gets annoying as my husband hits solve each time he calls out a letter so I have to watch him spend 60 seconds each turn figuring it out. Also, before you choose to spin, buy a vowel, or solve there is no time limit at all so one can stare at the puzzle for an eternity trying to guess if they so choose. This is mildly aggravating, but I still find the game fun and it isn't annoying enough to be a deal breaker.
All in all, this is a very well done game. The graphics and Miis are great and the set design is amazing. I highly recommend it and hope that if they put out another game in the future that it will employ the usage of a Mii Speak type device correctly.
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