Brunswick Pro Bowling (Wii, 2007)

If you really enjoy the bowling on the Wii but want a more in depth experience, Brunswick Pro Bowling is for you. It allows you to play quick games for when you have guests but also contains the career mode for your in depth bowling fun. In career you start out with ordinary league nights and work your way up through rival matches and tournaments. Throughout career mode you accumulate money to pay for tournament entries, bowling gear, and outfits. You build up reputation points, skill points in various categories. Its pretty true to life bowling. Everything involved in real life is simulated in the game, from different ball and gear performance to changing lane conditions (oil wise). Long tournaments reflect stamina in your character through arm fatigue and strength. The graphics are pretty good also, and there are tons of unlockable items (gear, apparel, lanes).

If your interested in something like this experience this is the game for you. No other bowling game offers this.

Do you love bowling?
Do you love bowling video games?
Well, I would suggest that you rent this game first, before buying it.
You may really enjoy "Brunswick Pro Bowling" for the Wii...but you also might really dislaike it...it's good in some areas and lacking in others

Brunswick Pro Bowling uses 'real' characters (avatars) that you can personalize (instead of the more simplistic, cartoony Miis), which does bring a touch of realism to the game. As your bowling skills progress and you earn 'money', you may later on purchase accessories to customize your avatar (such as different shirts, or balls). I found the avatars to be a bit creepy-looking, and there was no 'child-sized' avatars available (to the disappointment of a younger player who was trying the game)

I found the game controls to be more confusing that for the WiiSports Bowling. The controls were not extremely difficult, or hard to remember, but it was easy to line up your shot, then accidentally throw it completely out of whack just before you were ready to throw (and you'd have to start all over again).

I did not like the avatar animations...I think there is an option to turn them off, and next time, I would do that. Not only does it take up game-play time (to watch your avatar stand there and make faces) but I disliked the childish outbursts of frustration from the male character (whenever he bowled a less-than-perfect shot). If this truly was league-bowling (as the game says it is) this poor sportsmanship behavior would not be tolerated. But I digress...

All in all, the game was ok. Not great, not awful. If you've never played a bowling game before on the Wii, then you would probably think that it was ok. It certainly does bring the game of bowling right to your living room, in a semi-realistic manner (except why does the controller rumble when you bowl a strike? That makes no sense)

But all in all, I still think that the WiiSports bowling game is easier to play and more fun as well.
This game rated an "average" with me.

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The game play is Perfict. the game has great and realistic physics of reall balls and pins. the only down side is you can only use brunswick equipment so sellection is limited. and the other downside is if your playing a quick game you can only use the games Generated players. I would rate this game a 4-5 for game play

We expected to be able to create our own characters and then bowl with each other. Well, you can't do that. The only multiplayer mode is in quick play, and you select from a list of pre-made people.
Some aspects of this game are very nice, realistic bowling action, lane conditions change while you bowl, and you can make changes by selecting different balls and purchasing things from the Pro shop.
The bowling that comes with Wii Sports is much better for multiplayer action.

I decided to purchase this game as an alternantive to the less realistic look of Wii's decent bowling game (Let's face it the interaction between player and game takes gameplay to a whole new level).
The Brunswick version is pretty darn cool. There are a few male and a few female players to chose from with predetermined names (good so that it is easier to blame your represtentative for mistkes by yelling his or her name at the screem when they split the pins. The subtle changes when throwing the ball using the remote(that is all that you need to play...) are so much more like the real thing than past or other system's version that it makes it one worth playing for years. The stroke that contolls speed is also one that is perfectly syncronized to the resulting speed of the slide down the lane...and one can easily curve the ball by twisting the remote as you toss the ball. Why....there is a left,right or even a backspin that conteracts your player's built in curve. Each player give one a choice of degrees of curve.
Only the remote is needed so there are no wires to be in the way. Funny STRIKE and SPARE graphics will change as you get more in a game....Maybe eventually a perfect game! ;)JWP.
Ps> There is a Seperate Bowling Career feature also that saves your progress so that you can get paid :>