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Amazon reviewer falls out of love with NFL Training Camp for Wii
NFL Training Camp, courtesy Gameinformer.com
The reviews at Amazon are a great resource for seeing what regular consumers think of a game, and since they can be edited and updated, they can be even more useful for seeing how well games work over the long term. Take this review of NFL Training Camp for Wii, which turned into a sort of mini-blog that chronicles one user’s journey from rave to rant.
The writer, who like many of us just wanted to lose a few pounds, first “recommended” and then “highly recommended” the game after finding he could stick to the program after a few initial glitches. But a month later, the honeymoon turned sour as online problems occurred (server went down, data was lost) and it got worse as the reviewer had customer service and support problems with EA. Then came the final insult:
UPDATE 03/03/2011
Now it’s $40?!? I feel robbed EA. I pay $100 end of November, and 3 months later it’s at bargain basement prices? Not cool at all, and it’s made me incredibly unmotivated to use this, as I feel I have been scammed.
Indeed, EA has drastically cut the prices of NFL on Wii, and Active 2 on all platforms, from $100 to under $40. (At this writing NFL is $32.60.) That’s not-too-bad news for tightwads like me, but at the same time, I feel for the early adopters, and honestly I’d rather see better service and support than a bottom-feeder price. Especially with a health and fitness product, where support and motivation are key. EA needs to recover this fumble and step up their game before I’ll consider buying.
New U Yoga and Pilates game is out, for Wii
A Wii game called New U Mind Body was released this week. The game has already been out for several months in Europe and the UK, and it has several good reviews on the UK Amazon site. It’s balance-board compatible, and looks like it has the same sort of live-action format as My Fitness Coach 2 (which didn’t get as well reviewed as its predecessor).
And it looks like that’s about it for workout games until next year. I’m surprised to not see any games on the schedule for National Shape-Up Month, January. Maybe the game makers figure that’s when everyone will be at the gym.
