Let's face it, nowadays it is hard to get the family to all decide on one thing to do. Luckily, once we bought this game, we no longer have that issue.
I believe alot of people become turned off when it comes to board games partially because of the mess they create. Sure I could spend 20-30 bucks for a couple of these titles and I would probably have fun but loading everything back up in the box and getting it all to fit back in the box perfectly can be really frustrating.
Life - Great take on this classic game. The instructions and point of the game could be a little clearer for the younger players but once they get the hang of it they will really enjoy it. Me and my wife found ourselves laughing at alot of the fun aspects of the game. Especially when I had 3 kids and a wife on a teachers salary. OH BOY!
Mouse Trap - Very enjoyable except it is a little slower than I remember the actual board game being. There's just not much to do as you try to make your way around the board other than build the contraption which gets done pretty quick and then it's just a matter of rolling to eventually get to the end of the board.
Twister - They could have and should have replaced this with something else. Anything else in fact as it just did not translate well to the Wii.
Clue - An enjoyable take on the classic.
Yahtzee - Also an extremely fun take on the classic.
Overall I would suggest this for families who want to bring back the family game night. It was fun, replayable, and kept the kids engaged. Hasbro Family Game Night 3
We really enjoy these family game night Wii games. This one is great except for Twister; not really anything like the original Twister. Mousetrap is good, but a little slow moving. Clue is good with new twists that make it fun and easy to play on the Wii with a group. We loved Yahtzee Hands Down - very addicting! Our overall favorite was LIFE! Lots of laughs and very fun to play with the graphics. Like the original LIFE board game, the long version takes a while to play, but SO worth it.
I have the first Family Game Night and I love it. Honeslty the games in the second Family Game didn't appeal to me, but Family Game Night 3 is right up my alley. It includes the Game of Life, Clue, Twister, Mouse Trap and Yahtzee. All of them are my absolute favorites, especially Clue! With two little kids, we don't really get the chance to break out a board game too much these days, but it is much easier to turn on our Wii, play, and save it.
Each game has a classic and a remixed version which gives extra ways to play so you don't get bored! I will warn you though the Game of Life takes awhile to finisih if you play it 4-player (we had two computer players.) Twister is nothing at all like you'd expect, it is a game where you have to watch beats on the screen and hit the corresponding buttons that it shows, easy but it gets challenging! Mouse Trap is a game I hadn't played since a kid and I don't really remember, in the Wii game you play a mini-game to set up the trap and then you spend the end of the game rolling to see who gets trapped - a little slow but fun. Yahtzee is another favorite of mine and although this game is a little different than the traditional dice game, it is fun and addicting!
Overall, I really like Family Game Night 3 and think it is a great way to play old board game favorites on the Wii. This would be a perfect way for families to update their own family game night or just to play at a party. So far I have played this with just with my tween sister, but I am definitely breaking this out at our next party!
In a sentence: All of my high hopes for this game were vanquished within a half-hour of playing this garbage.
Twister: This has nothing to do with Twister. I was, in fact, very intrigued and excited when it was announced that they were doing a game about Twister. It is essentially a boring version of DDR. If Twister was human, it would be suing for name defamation. 1 star out of 5.
Yahtzee Hands Down: It takes awhile to get the hang of this, and it's not the worth the time in the end. Not very fun. 1 star out of 5.
Mousetrap: The fun thing about playing Mousetrap as a kid was building the contraption. Now that it's done electronically, this game isn't much more fun than an electronic version of Chutes & Ladders. 3 stars out of 5.
Clue: I was most excited about this, and consequently most disappointed by it. In the original board game, you can take a "guess" whenever you enter a room. In this version, you start a "rumor" every time you earn 6 rumor points. You get rumor points by walking around the board, landing on spaces that have rumor points within the tiles. So essentially you're mindlessly wandering around, looking for rumor tiles, and when you do this enough times, you'll find out who the killer is by rule of elimination. The original was fun because you could use reverse psychology on others to trick them into thinking they know who actually dunnit, but this game takes all those aspects away. 2 stars out of 5.
Game of Life: Very, very slow pace. This is the best part of the entire game, and is "Family Game Night 3"'s best attempt at redemption. It's nice that you don't have to add and do the math, but this game is actually quite different than the original (can't buy insurance for your car or house, and there is no real variety to the spaces). 3 stars out of 5.
I thought this game would be great, if not for any innovative features, then at least for the fact I wouldn't have to buy Clue, The Game of Life, and Mousetrap separately as board games. But this Wii game makes me wish I had just bought those 3 board games instead, they'd be much more fun to play. I wish I would have rented this one.
Oh well. It'll be a good White Elephant gift someday. - Party Game - Wii Game - Wii - Family'
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