![]() For example, we've already seen how a push-ups mini-game would work (you place your hands on the board instead). These are the first of many more applications that will ultimately appear in Wii Fit. To be honest, the Nintendo Wii can wear you out. Gaming becomes an 'active', 'physical' experience rather than a passive, couch potato session with button-heavy joypad. Like the Wiimote, the Balance Board makes gaming accessible to a whole new audience by mimicking real-life actions. While another mini game gives you control of a tilting platform with rolling balls that you must guide into holes in the platform. You crouch into a skiing position as the on-screen character shoots down a ramp, and spring up suddenly to leap from the ramp and then lean forward to get the biggest jump distance possible.Īnother game has you leaning your torso left and right to make an on-screen footballer head back incoming balls. Other, more fun-orientated mini games in the Wii Fit collection include ski jumping. It demonstrated this in one post-yoga examination by informing us that we had lowered one leg before it had instructed us to, and suggested we need to exercise that leg more. But the mini-game has an almost eerie ability to detect whether or not you're doing exactly what it asks based on your balance data. ![]() Of course, the board doesn't directly track the position of your limbs - only your balance. The game measures and records your balance data over a set time and scores you at the end of the session. For fit freaks, a selection of yoga exercises task you to mimic the movements of an on-screen character. The games that make up Wii Fit use the Balance Board in different ways. Even while we were trying to stand as still as possible, the board was able to highlight even the slightest twitches and shifts in balance. ![]() Before you start playing, a marker appears on screen to show how it is calculating your position. We emphasise 'both sides' because, as we found with one of the yoga mini games in Wii Fit, this means that the board can interpret your balance (via your weight distribution on the Board) even when you're standing on one foot. Instead, the Balance Board operates by using multiple pressure sensors housed in both sides of the board. It doesn't contain giant buttons either, like a PlayStation 2 dance mat. The surface of the Balance Board itself is completely rigid - it doesn't move or tilt at all as you shift your weight around. ![]()
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