Well, I haven't found boxing to be particularly fun, but from my experience in the training modes, it does offer a lot of control and once you learn to time things correctly it does actually respond "like you think it will". At first it doesn't seem to, because you don't yet realize what differences in your actual motion translate into the game and how they translate. The same holds true for tennis, bowling, perhaps baseball (it's the one I play least), and golf to a smaller extent.
The problem with putting and golf is not so much taht the Wii remote isn't picking up your subtle movements, it's just that there is a "velocity threshold" or something that needs to be crossed before the swing is registered. I'm sure this is to prevent subtle motions from registering as an extremely weak hit. I think this was primarily implemented because these games were meant to be relatively simplistic and forgiving. A Tiger Woods golf game or something similar and more advanced than Wii Sports golf would no doubtedly not safeguard you from your own movements and register any little movement as a swing (or at least lower the threshold significantly.)
You won't really start seeing the depth in the Wii sports games until you start working the training modes and then working on increasing your skill in the games themselves. As your skills go up the opponents get significantly tougher. My tennis skill is at something like 1100 rigth now and the computer simply doesn't make any mistakes. It forces you to learn the intricacies of shots, how to put spin on the ball, etc etc.
I'm digging Zelda, but I can't say that the control scheme is significantly better than a normal controller. I do think it would be more intuitive to non-gamers, but non-gamers would probably have a tough time w/ zelda for other reasons. The more that I use the Wii remote for precision aiming, the steadier my hand is getting and I think it does have the potential to work equal or better to a keyboard and mouse. It's just they'll have to figure out a better method of moving/turning/aiming than the current bounding box solution that games are using.
And I disagree wholeheartedly with the statement that WIi Sports is not the game to sell the system to folks. None of the games are actually difficult when you start. I mean, I think I was +5 on my first game of golf. Easily won the 5 or so matches the first time I tried boxing. Tennis and bowling were easy as well. I still haven't played 1 player baseball (which is kind of strange seeing as I played baseball for about 9 years when I was younger ;) but I can't imagine it being significantly more difficult than the others.
The problem with putting and golf is not so much taht the Wii remote isn't picking up your subtle movements, it's just that there is a "velocity threshold" or something that needs to be crossed before the swing is registered. I'm sure this is to prevent subtle motions from registering as an extremely weak hit. I think this was primarily implemented because these games were meant to be relatively simplistic and forgiving. A Tiger Woods golf game or something similar and more advanced than Wii Sports golf would no doubtedly not safeguard you from your own movements and register any little movement as a swing (or at least lower the threshold significantly.)
You won't really start seeing the depth in the Wii sports games until you start working the training modes and then working on increasing your skill in the games themselves. As your skills go up the opponents get significantly tougher. My tennis skill is at something like 1100 rigth now and the computer simply doesn't make any mistakes. It forces you to learn the intricacies of shots, how to put spin on the ball, etc etc.
I'm digging Zelda, but I can't say that the control scheme is significantly better than a normal controller. I do think it would be more intuitive to non-gamers, but non-gamers would probably have a tough time w/ zelda for other reasons. The more that I use the Wii remote for precision aiming, the steadier my hand is getting and I think it does have the potential to work equal or better to a keyboard and mouse. It's just they'll have to figure out a better method of moving/turning/aiming than the current bounding box solution that games are using.
And I disagree wholeheartedly with the statement that WIi Sports is not the game to sell the system to folks. None of the games are actually difficult when you start. I mean, I think I was +5 on my first game of golf. Easily won the 5 or so matches the first time I tried boxing. Tennis and bowling were easy as well. I still haven't played 1 player baseball (which is kind of strange seeing as I played baseball for about 9 years when I was younger ;) but I can't imagine it being significantly more difficult than the others.