Looking for summer fun? This week, there’s a new release by Nintendo of one of the hot new Wii games of the year – the new Wii Sports Resort, based on the old Wii Sports.

Here there’s a lot of games from the old version that you’ll remember, in Wii Sports Resort, which updates the old Wii Sports game but includes some new games too. Wii Sports that usually was bundled with the Wii console a few years back when Wii console was first released. This Sports Resort Wii game has several new sports, and also includes some great new features to take full advantage of the also new release of the Wii MotionPlus accessory.

The new MotionPlus accessory is an attachment to the Wii controller which adds a whole lot more control for players when they move the motion sensitive Wiimote Wii controller through the air. Using the new accessory, this new Wii Sports Resort game adds 12 different sports, to use the MotionPlus for games such as archery, swordplay, jet skiing, and sky diving which were not in the previous version.

Reading through reviews on the Web, gamers find that the new games really do use the new MotionPlus technology in a fun way, but sometimes don’t go far enough when they leave players wanting more in the way of using the new controller accessory and wanting extended games. With the new games such as swordplay and archery, they can really show off the enhanced control features which make the games more interesting.

This version still including some of the older games such as bowling and golf which now use the new technology. Some reviews were disappointed by technical issues that have come up, such as having to recalibrate the controller frequently. Also, some of the mini games for example the wakeboarding game and flying an airplane, are reported to be a little boring.

If there are some gamers that might get bored with just more sports, and also just mini games, still there might be some fun in using the new controller MotionPlus accessory. However it does sound like for most gamers, this will be a great game to add Wii Sports Resort to your Wii games collection to practice using the new Wii MotionPlus accessory.