Family Party: Fitness Fun: A great fitness game for those who want to get the whole family involved, this game includes 30 different activities ranging from skydiving to racquetball and trampolining. There is a multiplayer mode designed for families or friends to play together – giving the chance to earn medals and other rewards. The game is compatible with, but does not require, the Wii Balance Board.

Family Party: Fitness Fun is the ultimate fitness game for kids. The only game designed for kids to play simultaneously with their parents, Fitness Fun features 30 multiplayer sports, party games, and Wii Balance Board activities. It puts the Fun in Fitness!

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2 Responses to “Family Party: Fitness Fun – The Ultimate Fitness Game for Kids”

1. Julie Allen says:

   October 12, 2010 at 12:00 am

   If you read the Amazon reviews for the other games in the Family Party series of games from D3 Publisher, you’ll see certain trends appear over and over.

   1) The games are aggravatingly impossible to control
   2) It’s hard to see yourself on the screen
   3) It’s annoying that they lock the games and it’s impossible to figure out how to unlock all of them
   4) The graphics are cheap looking

   Unfortunately, Family Party: Fitness Fun follows the exact same patterns.

   On a positive note, you do get 30 games for less than $20. And all the games can be played by up to four players, meaning that fewer people have to sit on the sidelines.

   But the negatives far outweigh the positives.

   The graphics are very amateurish and at times difficult to follow.

   The controls are so non-intuitive that it’s impossible to figure them out on their own. They do provide on-screen instructions which are blocks of explanatory text so long they’re almost laughable. The one good thing they do is provide a “tutorial” mode where after a lot of trial and error for you can figure out the complex controls. But I doubt that most people would take the time to figure it out.

   Some of the games are ideas lifted from other games (Gold’s Gym Cardio boxing, Wii Sports Resort rowing, Active Life Explorer mine cart, Wii Fit marching, etc.), and poor ones at that. There are a few decent ones (their paintball fight simulation is not too bad, and there’s a neat game where each person tries to cross a bridge as the others are pelting cannonballs at him). But those are few and far between.

   Here’s a list of the games I was able to unlock:

   Ball Drop
   The Bridge
   Reflex Race
   Red Light Green Light
   Squats
   Sky Diving
   Canoe Race
   Mine Cart Madness
   Giant Ball Roll
   Counting Mania
   Steady Hand
   Smart Dieting
   Dodgeball
   Super Squash
   Paintball
   Fencing
   Tug of War
   Canoe Race
   Basketball Shootout
   Volleyball Rally
   Boxing Contest
   Trampoline
   Medicine Ball
   Marching

   Even though the word “fitness” is in the title, after playing through 25 games, I wasn’t even breaking a sweat. In that sense, I’m guessing that D3 decided to stick the word on and see if it’d fool more people into buying it.

   If you have a family of four and can get past the flawed controls, some of the games do make for some good entertainment at parties when four people are playing, since everyone is one a level playing field (albeit a frustrating one). But other than that, if you’re looking for family fitness game, this is not it.

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2. Phillip Johnson says:

   October 13, 2010 at 12:00 am

   The directions for the controls can be very complicated. They flash by very fast before you can really figure out what’s going on.

   There are a few of the games where the instructions were fairly easy to understand & for those games, I gave 2 stars.

   I was expecting a little bit of a workout when playing this game, but most of the games have to do with fitness, but actually require little moving around. Didn’t break a sweat.

   I don’t think I’ll be playing this game with my little cousins when they come over to play Wii since the instructions are too hard to figure out & I think they’ll get frustrated. The adults might like playing a handful of games, but by and large, the trouble outweighs the fun. I’d pass on this one.

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