Despite delivering some of the most awesome titles such as Super Mario Galaxy, Mario Kart, and Smash Bros. Brawl in the first half of 2008, my expectations from Sluggers definitely climbed manifold. But promising a great experience and really being able to deliver it are two different things. Apart from the aforementioned masterpieces, most Wii titles have been rather silly and incredibly shallow when we talk of the actual gameplay. Well, sadly Sluggers joins the kitty and turns out to be a little too simple for my liking. Reason? There is an extremely limited number of things you can do in the game. Just like its previous installment on the GameCube, Sluggers is nothing but a mere joke when it comes to the baseball game. Once the player has mastered the pitching and the hitting mechanics, he/she will be hard pressed to find anything else; he will be repeating the same chores over and over again, until a winner is declared by the random number generator. The remote handles everything from throwing the ball to moving the fielders; better control can be acquired with the help of the nun-chuck, but the implementation is too shoddy.
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