There are two aspects to this game, the mini-games and the story adventure that goes along with them. The cover boasts that there are over 40 mini-games, but some games are extremely similar to each other, so much so that they are hard to tell apart.
Six Flags Multiplayer Aspect
The main menu of the game allows the player to choose either the adventure mode, or the multiplayer mode, which can be played either solo or with up to three friends. This mode lists all of the mini-games available to play, and allows the gamer to play just one or play up to 10 games in a row. The game announces the winner of each round as well as declaring an overall winner.
Playing 10 games in a row might be fun -- if it weren't for the fact that games duplicate each other in terms of how they are played. Kalamari Krush is essentially the same game as Crater Critters, which is essentially the same as Back In Your Grave. There are just not enough differences in the ways the Wii remote is used to make the games feel different, even if a particular game doesn't have an exact duplicate.
Even worse, the 40 games that the cover advertises includes the food-booth games found only in adventure mode, so there are only 36 games to choose from in multiplayer. The controls and response is okay for most of the games, but some, such as Rescue Rookie, feel off, making the controller hard to aim and the game frustrating to play.
Not all is bad news, though. The ghost-themed Eerie Inn, while nothing more than an aim-and-shoot game, has the feel of a real theme park ride that moves along a track, giving the player different rooms to play in, and can be very entertaining.
Adventure in the Fun Park
In the adventure story, the player has the option of working on the main quest, which will unlock more features, or pursuing any number of side quests. While working on the main adventure quest is the only way to unlock more games and more of the park, the actual quest doesn't use any of the games. The main story only requires the player to talk to certain people in order to fetch an item for them, or deliver some item to someone else.
Only the side quests make use of the games, and even then it is only a few of the side quests that send you off to try the games. Here, though, the player can access the rest of the mini games, such as the food booth games, some of which use the controller in different ways than what are found in the multiplayer games.
Adventure mode does have some quirky humor and some genuinely entertaining moments. Some of the park guest have laugh-out-loud dialogue or requests. But the overall gameplay isn't that interesting, and this reviewer found herself walking away from the game for a week or more at a time before going back to it.
Overall, the game is mildly fun and a good way to spend the afternoon if there are children to entertain, but as a party game for adults it is overshadowed by other mini-game collections.
