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Wii Fit accessory pack is overweight


Do you want one of every Wii Fit accessory? Why bother shopping when you can just grab a single box from Amazon? The Wii 5-in-1 Fitness Bundle, true to its name, loads five Wii Fit accessories into a package for sixty bucks.

The accessories range from nice (a silicone cover, yoga mat, and Balance Board carrying case) to filler (socks!) to potentially harmful (a battery pack). That battery pack puts the whole thing on shaky ground -- ever since the Psyclone Wiimote charger fiasco, we've been wary of off-brand chargers. If you really want one, the Nyko option seems safer.

Honestly, if not for that, and the higher price Dreamgear expects because of it, a multi-Wii Fit accessory pack wouldn't be a bad idea. A cover is a good idea for anything you're going to put your feet on while sweating, and the bag and yoga mat are useful.

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It's like a Zapper, only it's a Blaster (and it sucks)



The Wii Game Blaster seems to get just about everything wrong with its design:
  1. It looks more like a handheld vacuum cleaner than a firearm. Zombies would guffaw at the sight of it in between their attempts to lunge at you and gnaw on your arm.
  2. The shell uses the nunchuck's buttons as the trigger, not the Wii remote's B-button. You might as well not use a Zapper at all, shooting at the screen with finger guns instead.
  3. Because most of the weight is in its barrel, you would need wrists of steel to hold the piece up with one hand for any longer than five minutes.
It does have an advantage over the Zapper and other similar peripherals, however, as its frame hides the wires that connect the nunchuck with the remote. Whether or not that innovation justifies the $35 dreamGear charges for the product is debatable. Here is a quick dramatization of how that debate would go:

"Is this Game Blaster worth--"
"No."

Despite its faults, the Game Blaster manages to fulfill the sole requirement we have for every light gun shell: Can we act out the Terminator 2 chase scene with it? You know which one we're talking about, when Edward Furlong is on his dirt bike, trying to get away from the T-1000. Arnold Schwarzenegger rides in to rescue the kid, firing away with his shotgun. Remember that? Well, you don't have to; we've pasted it past the break!

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