Wii Sports Resort: Tips & Tricks

Wii Sports Resort is the spiritual successor to Wii Sports, which shipped with the Wii when it first came out. It has loads of many games, and I'm just going to cover three of them today. Skydiving is quite a good one.

You leap out of your plane, and then you hold your Wii remote to determine where your player is facing and which direction he's going. What you want to do is link up with all four other players in your team to get a perfect group. Once you're in your group, flip everyone over onto their backs to face the cameraman, and you should get far more points.

Iron Flier is another fun, little mini-game where you're in a plane, basically flying over all the islands. The easiest mini-game for this section is called Pop Frenzy. Rather than going off and trying to collect loads of balloons or rather trying to collect all the balloons in a certain section, you're better off just dive-bombing giant clusters.

So if there's a stray balloon, don't waste your time chasing it down. Move to another area. Get another big cluster.

Power Cruising is a sea-based, rather like the old Wave Racer on the N64. The key to Power Cruising is to use your boost effectively. You don't want to waste it, so whatever you do, don't boost before the race starts because it needs time to recharge.

What you want to do is boost straight off the starting line to give yourself a head start. The second key point you're going to need for Power Cruising is to ride the waves. They won't do too much damage if you go against the waves in a normal race, but you will find that there are a bunch of goals that are above sea level, and you absolutely need to crest a wave in order to hit those.

If you're bored with the original Wii Sports - because, let's face it, there are only about four games there - then Wii Sports Resort is definitely a good investment. It also comes with the extra motion controller, so when you swing the Wii remote around, it's much more responsive and it's much better at tracking where you're pointing. Those have just been some quick tips for Wii Sports Resort.

Have fun. Debbie Timmins, editor-in-chief at The Average Gamer website, provides tips and tricks in this review of Wii Sports Resort for the Nintendo Wii. She covers several of the mini-games: Skydiving, Iron Flier, and Power Cruising.

Use her tips to get the most out of Wii Sports Resort.