Game Information
Overall Rank: 2322
Average Rating: 3.1/5
# of Ratings: 5
US Release Date: 11/18/2012
Platform: Wii U
Genres: Casual (Party)
ESRB Rating: E10+
Multiplayer: Local
Developer: Nintendo
Publisher: Nintendo
Synopsis: Join the fun in a virtual theme parked filled with wonderful attractions based on your favorite Nintendo games.The new Wii U controller will allow you a new experience - with options to use the classic Wii controller or the TV as well. Play solo, play against friends or even team up to take on each attraction.
Quick Game Reviews
Rating of
3/5
Chris Kavan - wrote on 01/03/2013
Works well enough as a collection of mini and party games - but once the initial fun of trying out some new toys wears out, there really isn't much more to it. Is it fun with a group of people? Yes! Alone? Probably nowhere near as much. And that's pretty much what you get.
Full Game Reviews
Rating of
3.5/5
Lots of Variety, Not Much Depth
dbarry_22 - wrote on 03/14/2013
Nintendo Land brings a wide variety of mini-games that shows off the WiiU Gamepad controller but lacks the depth that will keep you coming back to play again and again.
Nintendo Land launched along with the WiiU system and was even included with the Deluxe version. With that being said, it's logical when I say that this game is designed to show off the abilities of the new system, and more specifically, the Gamepad controller. Just like Wii Sports did for the Wii, Nintendo Land wants you to get use to the new controller and what different kinds of things it can do for a game.
The game puts you and your Mii into a theme park type setting and gives you a wide variety of games to play. Some of them are designed for a single player, others have to played with multiple people. With …
Rating of
3/5
A Tech Demo Fueled by Nostalgia
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 11/30/2012
Like the Wii before it, the WiiU includes a pack-in game that is less of a ‘game’ and more of a ‘tech-demo’ of all the novel features and gameplay ideas the new console’s proprietary controller can enable. Unlike “WiiSports,” however, “Nintendo Land” doesn’t focus on the universally-loved (except by videogame-loving nerds, like me) simplicity of games that involve throwing or hitting balls, but instead seems like an attempt to subtly introduce genuine videogame concepts to the audience of casual non-gamers who have recently discovered that they love playing timewasters on their smartphones. Thus “Nintendo Land” is a collection of mini-games based (sometimes very loosely) upon classic Nintendo intellectual properties. Whether or not non-gamers will eat this up like …
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