The Price is Right Decades for Wii Reviews by Gamers

A previous review said that this game is "only for the hardcore fans". However, as a member of that group, I think I can comfortably say that we're not its market, either.

Single-player mode (the only one I tried) goes as follows: Your lovely assistant (an ordinary female Mii) picks a videocassette out of a box and puts it in a VCR. This launches the game, which tells you a year, calls you on down, and shows you an item up for bids. Once you win one (you have multiple opportunities, and you always bid last), you play a pricing game. Win or lose, you go to the Showcase Showdown, where you're told what score you need to beat, then take your one or two spins (with a bonus spin, if appropriate). If you win there, you go to the Showcase, where you play against a computer opponent. Win or lose, you're shown how much you won, and that tape goes into your file, where you can play that show (or just its pricing game) whenever you wish. Repeat a bunch of times.

I was disappointed in the following:

- The "Decades" referred to in the game's title are only the last four. The show's successful '50s/'60s version is ignored.

- Messed-up games. In Decades's game of Hurdles, your runner has an item, then you're shown three other items, and have to determine whether each is higher or lower in price than yours. (But that's not how Hurdles was played; it used three pairs of items.) Hole in One uses only four products, not six (and gives you a second putt if you miss, even though the given year was before that rule was instated). And that's just from the ten or so games I played before giving up.

- Drudgery. You can't skip the show's opening, no matter how many times you've sat through it already.

- No Barker, Carey, Olson, Roddy, or Fields. Just a generic announcer and the one Mii model.

- [Many others edited due to length limit.]

If you like the show, there's a tiny bit of enjoyment to be had here, but it gets repetitive very quickly. Skip it - there are better