

It's not hard to imagine that shifting your weight around the balance board is a good deal less precise than twisting your arm, which greatly increases the challenge of the maps-especially in the tight turns, where you need expert precision to guide your monkey ball and grab the bananas that line the levels. While you can control your monkey ball on the game's various levels with the Wii Remote, twisting and turning the remote to maneuver around the sometimes intricately designed mazes, doing so with the balance board brings a new level of challenge to the game. We had a chance to check out Super Monkey Ball: Step and Roll today, and the new control scheme, coupled with the just-announced cooperative play, gives this entry in the SMB series some life.įirst off is the balance board support. That said, don't be surprised if you work up a little sweat when controlling Aiai, Meemee, and the rest of the gang, thanks to the game's support of the Wii Balance Board.

MAKUHARI, Japan-Though it's known as Super Monkey Ball Athletic in Japan, there's no real fitness aspect to the upcoming Wii version of Super Monkey Ball.
