10 Mediocre Video Games Saved By ONE Amazing Feature

As a collection of mini-games Wii Sports was extremely simple.

Baseball, bowling, and golf had you do one motion with your hands and then watch the results play out. Boxing required slightly more thought processes but essentially boils down to you flaying your arms and hoping for the best.

Tennis too has you performing the same motion over and over again with very little thought needed to progress past the inoffensive AI.

In terms of depth, it was shallower than a gold digger and visually it looks like student animators first draft of their final assessment that just happens to be based on a variety of sports activities. However, motion controls this fluid had just never been seen before and blew everyone's minds back in 2006.

It's still fun to crack this open and have your grandma score home-run as the physics-based fun ensured the game was never on autopilot and had a variety of outcomes for each challenge. It is entirely possible to bowl the perfect game, then have an atrocious gutter-infested performance in the next one due to how responsive and tight they were.

Wii sports is about as basic a sports title can get, but the fact you were the one controlling everything turned it into a household name.