70/100
Players58 ratings: 70/100
Critics3 reviews

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2010 · Nintendo Cube · Party · Quiz

Wii Party

Nintendo exclusive

Wii Party features 13 different game modes divided amongst three categories: Party Games, House Party Games, and Pair Games. Most of the game modes integrate use of Wii Party's 80 mini-games. The game also offers additional modes that make exclusive use of the mini-games.

Released: 8 July 2010
Platforms: Wii
Genres: Party Quiz
Developers: Nintendo Cube
Publishers: Nintendo
Series: Wii Wii Party
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Third person Bird view / Isometric
Themes: Action Party
Country: Japan
Age ratings: PEGI 3 CERO A CLASS_IND L ESRB E USK 0 ACB G GRAC ALL
Languages: English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, German, Italian
Copies sold: 9.3 million as of 2021-03-31
Entry: #8 in Wii
Directors: Shuichiro Nishiya

About

Wii Party is a 2010 party video game developed by NDcube and published by Nintendo for the Wii. The game heavily borrows gameplay elements from the Mario Party series. It is also the first game in the Wii series that Shigeru Miyamoto did not produce. The game was released in Japan on July 8, 2010, in North America on October 3, 2010, in Australia on October 7, 2010, and in Europe on October 8, 2010.

Wii Party was revealed by Satoru Iwata in a Financial Results Briefing on May 7, 2010. 35 million copies worldwide as of September 2021. A sequel, Wii Party U, was released for the Wii U on October 25, 2013.

Keywords

helicopter
minigames
time limit
high score
hide and seek
minigame collection
polygonal 3d
motion control
bundled with peripherals
mii support
one-handed gameplay
gibberish

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Gameplay

Wii Party features nine different game modes divided between three categories: Party Games, House Party Games, and Pair Games. Most of the game modes integrate the use of Wii Party's 80 minigames. The game also offers additional modes that make exclusive use of the minigames.

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Development

After the development of Mario Party 8 and Mario Party DS , several of Hudson Soft's key designers left to work for Nintendo subsidiary NDcube. Wii Party was first revealed to the public by Satoru Iwata during a presentation to investors at E3 2010 on May 7, 2010. In an Iwata Asks interview, NDcube declared "One of the attractions of Mario Party is that you can play with your favorite character", but they "thought that using Mii characters would strengthen the impression that you yourself are playing together with your friends." Iwata also hoped "people will play Wii Party for years to come as the new standard in party game software."

Reception

Wii Party received "mixed or average" reviews from critics, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. GameSpot awarded Wii Party a score of 8 out of 10, commending the wide variety of minigames and modes. GameSpot also commented that the multiplayer mode "is a blast", and believe Wii Party is "faster and better" than Mario Party. Nintendo World Report gave the game an 8/10, saying "A common complaint about Mario Party is that it has too many things that slow gameplay down to a near halt, such as multiple traps on one game board and waiting for the player to finish his or her turn.

Wii Party avoids this by speeding up gameplay". IGN gave the game a 7/10, criticizing the graphics for being bright and colorful and "not exactly pretty", but praising Nintendo for doing a good job of allowing players to follow instructions to get through objectives. 9, saying "Aside from a few dud modes and some minor control issues, there isn't a whole lot to fault."