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Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree

Posted on June 4, 2009
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Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree
 
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Product Description

The Wii sequel to Big Brain Academy for Nintendo DS includes three multiplayer modes for up to eight players. Players also can exchange student-record books with other players over WiiConnect24 and compete against their save data. With 15 new activities that challenge the brain in single-player Test and Practice modes, Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree sees how players measure up in five categories: Identify, Memorize, Analyze, Compute and Visualize. All activities are designed around the Wii Remote's pointer. Players can play solo with one Wii Remote, or pass it around like a relay baton in group competitions.

Sample activities: The activities in Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree are fun minigames with a ton of variety, and they're meant to be played rapid-fire for a short time as players push their brains to do more than they did the day before. Here are three of the activities included in the game:

  • Art Parts: In this Visualize activity, players must complete the sample painting by stamping the missing pieces onto an unfinished scene. When it becomes more difficult, Art Parts flips the unfinished scene sideways or flips it upside-down.

  • Balloon Burst: In this Compute activity, players must pop balloons in rising numerical order. At its easiest, there are few balloons shown at once. On a higher difficulty level, Balloon Burst sends in more balloons, including some with negative numbers.

  • Fast Focus: In this Identify activity, players see a distorted image that slowly returns to normal. Players must select what it is as soon as they figure it out. As it grows more difficult, Fast Focus starts with a more heavily distorted image, so it takes longer to identify what it is.

How to progress through the game: When players start a new game, they'll meet the whimsical Dr. Lobe, who will suggest that they take on the Test mode challenge: playing all 15 activities that span the five brainy categories. He'll tell players how big their brain is based on how well they did and how fast they did it. He'll encourage players to take the Test often and to use Practice mode to beef up their skills in all 15 of the activities. Practice mode also offers three difficulty levels for each activity, and Dr. Lobe will award several medals for high achievement in each one.


Multiplayer: Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree offers three ways for groups to play:

  • Mental Marathon: Speed through activities to buy more time to stay in the game. Go it solo or as a team, but if anyone botches an activity, the game is done (1-8 players, one Wii Remote).

  • Mind Sprint: Form a team to compete against a system-controlled competitor that "thinks" like a selected student record (1-4 players with one Wii Remote). Or separate into two teams (2-8 players with two Wii Remotes). The first side to complete a set number of problems wins.

  • Brain Quiz: Play game-show style with up to four teams that compete in a total of 20 activities, since five extra activities are available in this mode. (1-8 players, one Wii Remote)

Mii compatibility: Everyone who enrolls in the academy will choose a Mii, which will walk down the school's hallway and pop up during Wii Remote handoffs to help explain which teammate goes next in multiplayer matches.

Wii Remote audio: Players will get encouragement and hear color commentary from a "Wii Remote Coach" who speaks to the player through the Wii Remote speakers.

WiiConnect24: In Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree, players can send and receive student-record books full of brainy data. By establishing WiiConnect24 ties with Wii Friends who own the game, players can all see their academies affected in several fun ways:

  • Compare distant students' test scores with those of the local student body on the Student Scores board. Distant students' records are shown as books.

  • Compete against distant students' brains in Mind Sprint. Players actually play against game-controlled competitors that "think" based on brainy strengths and weaknesses in their student records.

  • The distant player's "Mii student" will walk the hallways with the player's own student body. Players can make WiiConnect24 connections with many students, adding many Miis to their crowd.

Players are encouraged to send and receive each others' records frequently, so that their academies have up-to-date results for competition and comparison. In this way, individual academies can join a personal network of schools and push each other to develop their brains further.

Product Details

  • Brawl with Other Brains! The Wii sequel includes three multiplayer modes for up to eight players. You can also exchange training data with other players over WiiConnect24 and compete against their save data.
  • Weigh Your Brain! With 15 new Activities that challenge your brain in single-player Test and Practice modes, Big Brain Academy Wii sees how you measure up in five categories: memory, analysis, number crunching, visual recognition, and quick thinking.
  • Train with the Wii Remote! All Activities are designed around the Wii Remote's Pointer, so you can have fun learning from the comfort of your couch with one Wii Remote, or pass around two Wii Remotes for group competitions.
  • Mii data compatible.

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Customer Reviews

Awful
 
Review Date: August 2, 2010
Reviewer: Marcus House, VA
This is absolutely awful. Game is quite boring and lacks the ability to save your profile. This means every time you have to power up you have to register a profile. My children are ages 6 through 11 and this will not do for either of them. WII Word coach is the only good one that they sell as far as I can tell so far.
I want to launch the professor into the sun.
 
Review Date: May 17, 2010
Reviewer: starchilde, texas
Yes... he really is THAT annoying. The mini-games are very repetitive. They have maybe 3 or 4 forms for each "category". The only things that change are the numbers\layout. I bought this game for my 7 year old and his general evaluation was "That guy is annoying... can I have a popsicle?". LOL
Kind of Fun
 
Review Date: May 1, 2010
Reviewer: James Jenkins, Pittsburgh PA
It is what it says it is, a brain game. The "tests" have a lot of variety and if you are looking for a game like this I would recommend it. The only thing I dislike about it is you can't by pass all the "you did great" messages. Once you finish a set, you have to click through a bunch of screens that you have seen after every other set.
If you don't mind verbal abuse , this is a good game.
 
Review Date: March 7, 2010
Reviewer: Faramir,
I asked the Grandparents to buy this for my 8 yr old. We've only played it a few times. I can see how the games could be fun and beneficial. Overall, we really dislike the game. It's annoying because there's a lot of time wasted waiting for the game character to make some haughty or rude comment. I've yet to see any worth reading. If a teacher treated kids this way- they'd be fired. My daughter cringes when the character comes on the screen. Even in the practice mode, the screen character could make a crack about how she must be half asleep. After a game, it can make comments about how the other team members must be disappointed in her. There are gentler ways to criticize. How about just "That wasn't very good, but just keep trying- you'll do better next time."? I wish there was a way to turn off the comments- then we'd all enjoy the games much more. In summary, if you enjoy haughty comments and don't mind verbal abuse- this is a good game.
awesome game
 
Review Date: February 25, 2010
Reviewer: A. M. Francis, Acworth, GA
This is a great game to play with your kids...it tests all aspects of the brain and it is really fun.

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