Oregon Trail for Wii Reviews by Gamers

This game is very boring and takes a very long time to complete- about 3.5 hours. It leaves you asking "when will this be over?" It leaves you jumping for joy when you finally arrive at the destination-because then you know its over. Not a good buy at all.

I was excited when I saw that the classic "Oregon Trail" game was coming to Wii.

"Oregon Trail" is known for being a well-loved, fairly simple yet extremely fun, "teaching" game. I was quite excited to introduce this game to my son. I played the classic version in school and I remember it with great fondness. Perhaps getting to play the game in school added to the enjoyment and perhaps it wouldn't be as fun played in a different setting, I don't know. I do know that the Wii version of this classic does not in any way live up to the original game.

My son & I both tried playing the game (& just to note, our gaming skills are vastly different - I'm 32, not much of a gamer, & enjoy more simple games while he's 9, a gaming fanatic & is quite skilled). This game frustrated both of us beyond the point of even wanting to try to figure it out. It was just NOT fun, I'm sorry. I don't mind simple, but the graphics/scenery were repetitive to a fault. The wagon was nearly impossible to steer correctly, especially if you wanted to go faster. Hunting, again, boring. My son's 'family' kept dying at a certain point for absolutely no reason whatsoever - multiple times! After that, he gave up. I didn't manage to get much further - while my 'family' didn't all die off as quickly, I just found the game highly unplayable. The 'learning about history' aspect of the game were totally lost due to the poor design - the text portions are far too many boxes to click through,and the interactions with others are repetitive and sometimes, just odd.

All in all, I am very disappointed by this seemingly thoughtlessly slapped together game. It's a definitely NOT something I would call a Wii version of the classic. It's a cheap attempt to cash in on the popularity of the classic title before people realize how absolutely awful it is. I don't mean for this to be a "spoiler" but a mere suggestion of "try before you buy" - this one is definitely a rental.

This game, is so very slow! if you have the time and wait patiently then you might like this. but, it's way to slow for my family. ages hubs 40 me 16 kids 16,12,6,5,4.

Good luck

i had rented this game and found out all this game was was an updated version of the old floppy disk game that I played back in elementary school. This games graphics are ok nothing spectacler. The gameplay is really boring just driving your wagon and reading alot of boring facts about the oregon trail. The controls are easy to use shake the wii remote to start your wagon and drive with the nunchuck. Shooting controls are simple too just point the wii remote at the screen and press b to shoot. I would not recommend this game unless you want a boring histroy lesson.

Plain and simple, this plays the way you would think a modern iteration of the old Apple IIe game played. You won't find eye-popping graphics or sound here, but if you really liked Oregon Trail of old, you'll probably enjoy this version.

I was excited to get this game as I am easily amused, especially something from my childhood days. However I don't think they did a very good job of updating it. Your control over steering the wagon is wonky at best. You get used to it after a time, but there seems to be a lot more you should be able to do. Rent for some memories, but not if you expect it to be updates to perfection.

This game takes me back to when I was young playing this game in school it still hold up but now it's better so do your self a favor buy this game

game was not interesting enough