Like those dedicated tennis games, Zindagi fares no better in creating a connect feeling between your motions and the ones you are seeing on the screen. Tennis is basically a poor-man’s version of Virtua Tennis 4 or EA’s Grand Slam Tennis. It takes a few minutes to fully grasp the nuances but it’s a lot of fun when you figure it out. You pump the controller to build up speed than twist your wrist slightly to steer your way down the slope while raising up or ducking down to crouch or stand. Skiing requires you to furiously move your hands as if you were gripping a pair of ski poles – or at least one ski pole if you only have one controller available as was the case in my four-player party with only two controllers. Depending on how many controllers you have to go around, many of these games can be played with one or two motion controllers, and while you may get a bit of added precision when using two, it’s mostly a mental thing, and skiing is the perfect example. So how about those sports? Going down the line we’ll start with Skiing. ![]() To add some pressure, you are awarded up to three gold stars for each event, and unlocking those can be extremely challenging, especially in the golf. Sports Champions 2 is obviously designed as a party game and it serves that function well by providing a lot of fun gameplay with challenging events and responsive controls, but sooner or later you will find yourself playing alone and Zindagi managed to work in a solid list of sequential challenges for each sport, and as you win one challenge the next will unlock in a surprisingly lengthy series of events. Later in the game you can also take victory poses and trophy photos and share them on your connected Facebook page. This can quickly turn an E10+ game into an M rated game with just a few strokes, but that’s not the ESRB’s problem. It clearly shows which players will be playing the next event, and it also allows the winner of each event to deface the other player’s photo with various colors of magic marker. You’ll also get to take a snapshot of yourself, posing with a variety of augmented reality objects like a foam finger, dumbbell, trophy, hammer, or stick of dynamite just to name a few. The first thing you have to do is create your character, either by choosing from the premade selection or creating your own avatar by customizing those characters with various clothing and gear that is unlocked through solo cup play. This also means that any player can use any controller, so you don’t have to keep track of a certain device/colored orb if you are playing with fewer controllers than players. You simply stand in your video box and squeeze Move+Trigger to lock in your controller…no more up-down-belt buckle aerobics. There have been several enhancements to the interface and the game engine that no longer requires the constant recalibration of the Move controller. ![]() These events can be approached in solo Cup Play, or if you would like to gather a group of friends you can check them all out in Free Play or Party Play that will organize the players into a tournament bracket and randomly choose the events. Disc golf has been replaced with real golf, table tennis has been replaced with real tennis, and gladiator combat has been replaced with boxing. Archery is clearly back, and while the controls have been refined it is essentially the same game as before. We now have Skiing, Tennis, Boxing, Bowling, Golf, and Archery. ![]() Sports Champions 2 brings six new sports to the party, and much like the first game, you may not like them all but there are sure to be a few standout favorites. Regardless, the masters of Move are back with Sports Champions 2, and after a week of solid solo and party fun I’m here to tell you about it. Zindagi Games is probably best known for the original Sports Champions that quickly became the equivalent of Wii Sports on the PS3, or maybe you enjoyed their Medieval Moves: Deadmund’s Quest game that released this time last year that took the sword and shield combat and archery components from Sports Champions and crafted them into a compelling fantasy adventure setting.
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