If you’re buying a Wii MotionPlus controller anyway, you might as well spend the extra $10 to get “Wii Play: Motion.” That’s really the nicest thing that can be said about “Wii Play: Motion,” easily the weakest of Nintendo’s otherwise impressive lineup of Wii minigame collections. Though it is bundled with a MotionPlus controller ($40 on its own), which is capable of more exact motion tracking than the regular Wii Remote, the game rarely puts that technology to interesting use, and before long you will move on to employing your additional controller in the superior multiplayer action of MotionPlus games like “Wii Sports Resort.”
The stated goal of the Wii (other than to sell lots of them) was to get you off your couch, move the action into real space, and blur the line between what’s happening on-screen and in your living room. The game that comes closest, after all these years, to meeting this goal, is “Spooky Search,” in which characters on your TV point at ghosts in your room and you “search” around you with the Wii Remote, which emits different tones to let you know how hot or cold you are. The Wii Remote beeps when pointed directly at the ghost, and you wrangle it back to a holding tank on your TV. Some ghosts take multiple people to find and wrangle back, and it’s easy to imagine kids having a blast imagining the room is filled with invisible ghosts.
