Brunswick Pro Bowling | 
| From: Crave Entertainment
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $14.00
You Save: $15.99 (53%)
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Rating:  52 reviews
Sales Rank: 763
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: Sports and Outdoors Games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 40002
UPC: 650008400021
EAN: 0650008400021
ASIN: B000QJLQBM
Release Date: August 21, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Realistic Physics-Real time changing lane conditions for the player to master during the course of a match | | • | Career Mode- Work your way from an amateur to a true professional Brunswick Pro Champion | | • | 10 different environments to choose from | | • | Authentic Brunswick bowling products to improve your characters performance. |
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Product Description
STRIKE! You're in! Using your Wii-mote, you're entering a bowling alley and are set to play the game with utmost realism while viewing it on your TV through Wii. Brunswick Pro Bowling will give players a detailed, realistic bowling-center experience, complete with authentic sights and sounds, and official Brunswick bowling gear. Brunswick Pro Bowling will be highly customizable, allowing players to choose everything from their character's appearance and accessories to ball styles.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 47 more reviews...
 Not very realistic November 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I waited and waited for this game to be released. At first, it seemed much better than Wii Sports Bowling, but the fun soon wore off.
Multiplayer mode sometimes works, and sometimes does not. Half the time it makes you use the same remote for 2 players. I've found that cancelling out of the game and starting over will allow 2 remotes to be used with 2 players. I think it may have something to do with your choice of players.
I've been playing career mode for about 6 months now, and I am STILL using the house ball. I cannot gain enough money to buy a new ball ([...]).
However, 3 things annoy me the most. About every five seconds, there is a voice in the background. it sounds like an Indian male shouting "Yamani". This is really annoying, over and over and over and over. I have read a ton of reviews and this fact is never mentioned.
Another really annoying thing is the physics and sounds are not at all realistic. When you get a strike - it ALWAYS makes the same exact strike sound, regardless of how you get the strike. You can get 8 pins, and by some miracle the next 2 pins fall - you still hear the same strike sound - yet no sound when the last 2 pins fall. When you hit 2 pins, always the same sound, regardless of how close or far apart the pins are. When you hit a single pin, always the same sound - you get the picture.
Splits are impossible to pick up. You can throw the ball dead in the pocket and not get a strike (I know beforehand by the sound of the pins). But pins bash into each other, yet do not fall. It's like this game is programmed once the ball is rolled - it seems pre-determined how many pins you will get, as opposed to the real physics of bowling.
The third annoying thing is ball control - there is practically none. i can hold my arm perfectly straight throughout the delivery of the ball, yet it will hook left. I deliberately try to hook the ball left, and it hooks right. i don't get it. The screenshots show meters on the screen for accuracy and strrength - where are they?
I still plal, because of all the time I have invested in this game, I am determined to get out of "amateur' status - even though in league Night, I win almost every single game, and by a lot. I generally bowl 180 or better every game in league night - I just cannot win a tournament - then have to start over with 27 league games again.
Baaahhh!
 Hard to Figure Out November 20, 2008
Game came with instructions in French and it is complicated to figure out w/o instructions. Took a month to obtain English info from mfg.
 disappointed November 16, 2008
very disappointed in the brunswick bowling, as the instructions were all in french so they were useless. its not an easy game to figure out i have a lot of games and this is the worst one. i would not recommed this game to anyone and a lot of my friends have the wii. thank you carol balch
It's not what I expected September 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love the bowling game that comes with Wii Sports so I was expecting this game to be something like that, but with more realistic characters, bowling alleys and more control over the ball. The graphics are ok, there are several different alleys, but the characters which do look real, don't move very fluidly. It isn't real sharp either as I'm accustomed to with other Wii games.
The control over the ball is nothing like in Wii Sports. In Wii Sports it feels like you're really bowling. In this game it feels very awkward. It seems like the ball goes in a certain direction, no matter what you do. Some people have commented that after you play the game a while and build up some time, the control gets better, but shouldn't it be a game of skill, right from the start?
The voices get annoying very quickly. I was ready to smack my charater after about 10 minutes. Thank goodness you can turn them off. The characters I used seemed to repeat the same things over and over. It seemed like there should be some more random phrases for a little more variety.
I hope there will be other bowling games out there that are more realistic, that have the feel and movement of the Wii Sports version with real looking characters and lots of bowling alley choices. I wish this game would have fulfilled those expectations. If I hadn't played the Wii Sports version before renting this game I might have been happier with it. But by comparison it didn't measure up.
 Bowling fun September 18, 2008
The game is ok. It has some limitations to it. When making your Avatar it limits you options on how it looks. I have had it for about a month now and I play it regularly. It's ok. Not much of a challenge. I have bowled a 300 game on it:)
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