GamesRadar+ Verdict
Pros
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Brunswick license intact
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Realizing actual bowling is more fun
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Wii Sports in comparison
Cons
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Controls are screwy
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Realizing you're playing the anti-fun
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Who cares about the Brunswick license?
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Oct 24, 2007
Living in fizzy drink-enameled dives, played in slippers held together by fungal infections and favouring whooping theatrics over polite applause, bowling is the social slob of the sporting world. This makes capturing it in game form oh-so-very difficult and it certainly isn't made any easier if, like Brunswick here, you try to do so with anything other than a goofy grin on your face. But whereas Wii Sports presented flighty six-pounder fun, this struggles under the heavy-handed brunt of a clunky 16-pound license.
More info
| Genre | Sports |
| Description | Experience enormous, extreme, and exciting pin-exterminating action - with all the dignity of Brunswick, fine fellows. |
| Platform | Wii, PSP, PS3, PS2 |
| US censor rating | Everyone |
| Release date | 28 August 2007 (US), 21 September 2007 (UK) |
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