We Cheer 2 - Nintendo Wii

Give me a Y! Give me a E! Give me an S! Do I love this game as much or even more than the first  We Cheer  game? Yes! It's everything I hoped it would be. You might remember from my review of the first We Cheer that I'm a 60 year old woman who didn't make the cheerleading finals in junior high and have never gotten over it. So this is a big time opportunity for a second chance. And this game is much cooler than junior high. First of all, the stages are glitzy and sparkly and you have a choice of lots of different ones like the Dolphin Aquarium, the Namco Arena and more. In junior high there were only smelly old gyms! The music is great with 30 new songs by top artists, all high energy and fun. When I was in junior high the cheerleaders had to sing. How lame is that?I think the controls on this game are a little more responsive than they were on the first. With the first game it took me a couple weeks to pass the first cheer. On this one I passed an easy one the first time. Now that may be because I'm used to the way the game is played and because I play it obsessively. I like the Stunt Time bonus points addition to this game. Not to worry, you don't have to do the splits and cartwheels across your family room to score. The motion is detected only in your arm movements. (You might want to keep your drapes closed while flailing your arms wildly in time with the music and jumping up and down when you pass a song. It will only confirm to any neighbors who might look in what you're one fry short of a Happy Meal).One of the things I really liked about this game is that right in the beginning, when you're going through all the training instructions, there is a part where you move your wiimotes with a calibration device that sets the calibration for the moves in the game with your TV. You can still go back later into the options menu and readjust them if need be. With the first game I didn't check the option menu and settings for the first couple of days and then found out that my screen response was just the slightest bit slow. Once I adjusted for it the moves were easier to hit. If you're new to the game, definitely go through the training sessions to get the feel of the way it all works.The first game had lots of options for customization of your cheer squad, but this game has even more. There are over 40 different male and female cheerleaders to choose from and there are more things to customize. You can even do accessories like hair ribbons in a choice of colors. You have greater control over what you want your cheerleader to look like and also the other cheerleaders in your squad. This game has male as well as female cheerleaders which is great because the first game had a lot of male fans. It's fun to change the outfits and pompoms when you're taking a few minutes to rest up after playing for a while. There is a scoring thing in this game that's new, where you rack up points in the championship mode. You start as a Newbie and progress through the ranks. I was up to Amateur in my first session. You also see charts with high scores after each try. I liked that they didn't have the chatty fellow cheerleaders after each cheer in this game. Of course you can hit the A/B buttons in the first game to skip through that and can do that in this game to for any screens you want to skip. I like that feature, because the game moves quickly and you get to keep moving.You can pick a different stage after each play if you want and the menu is a little different for this game than for the first. That menu looks kind of like a DDR menu. The game is still oozes with enthusiasm and high energy. The trace lines which you have the option to change to thinner lines are the same. It's a great way to exercise your arms and upper part of your body and the trainers encourage you in the beginning to follow along with full body dance moves. At first it's enough work just to follow the arm patterns, but once you learn those you can follow along. My arms feel like they're going to fall off after playing for a while and I worked up a good sweat. The thing I like best about the game is that it's fun and I seldom can play for just a short time. With the first game I've spent many nights playing until 2:00 in the morning, just because I had to pass one more cheer to get to the next level and I'm sure with the point system in this new game it'll be even more self competitive. Oh, you could invite up to 3 friends over for a Cheer Off where each player uses one wiimote or one friend in Cheer Battle where each player uses two wiimotes. My friends already think I'm nuts, a 60 year old cheerleader wannabe, so I won't even go there! Two thumbs up for We Cheer 2! This game will keep me busy for a long, long time.

Both of my daughers, ages 9 and 11 play this game. It is not the most popular game they have, but it does get play time, which tells me it is worth the money. It gets the kids up and active, so this is what I was looking for.

I bought the game after reading reviews about how awesome and fun it is but really all I have to do is stand in place, swing my arms around and I nail it on every level. It's not a challenge at all so it gets old and boring quite quickly. Maybe because I'm a former cheerleader its easy for me? I don't know .. but I'm not really getting this game.ETA: I decided to give this game another try and learn the choreography in addition to the chance moves and I changed my mind .. this IS pretty fun! And a pretty good upperbody workout as well :)

I was a huge fan of the first one but this one is even better. They seemed to have fixed everything that was problematic in the first one. I like that they now have 3 levels of difficulty to choose from which makes it alot better for my friends when playing since the first one was too difficult for them even on the normal setting. Now they can all easily pass a song on beginner in this sequel and view the routine before jumping into it to see what theyre getting into. I go straight to intermediate of course lol i havnt tried it on the hardest setting yet but im sure itll be very challenging, which i like. (If the game were too easy id get bored right away) There are so many more new features that the extra add on to the price compared to the first is worth it anyway. The songs are a GREAT choice. Lots of great cheerable songs and lots of variety not just all poppy girly songs. The remote response it a whole lot better even without the motion plus. Ive still gotta get use to alot of the changes but so far it has been easy to move from the first one onto this and i get more and more people hooked too. This is definitely a Wii game that you cannot pass on if you want something fun that isnt too hard or too easy causing you to want to quit right away and itll definitely work you out if youre actually giving it your all lol My arms currently ache horribly from hours of playing yesterday! Cant go wrong with this game!

Like another reviewer had mentioned, I had We Cheer and got so frustrated that I sold it. I had it for a few months and got nowhere. We Cheer 2 is remarkably different in the sense that the game is playable by just about anyone on any level. On the first day I played, I was able to pass through three songs (on the easy level).The new faces (especially the boys) are nice, and the options to move them around and accessorize is great. I also like how customizable the cheerleaders are: skin color, eye shape, eyebrow shape, lip color and shape, hair color and style. The possibilities are endless. The music choices (so far) are pretty good. I hope to unlock even more songs as I work on the easy levelOverall, I would tell anyone who liked the concept of We Cheer but got really frustrated with it because it was so difficult to get We Cheer 2 because it will not disappoint.

My 8yr old and 6 yr old loved this game more than any other game they have. It's soooo cute and has a lot of popular songs on it for them to cheer to. You can make the cheerleaders look however you want and they both enjoy changing the colors of their hair and clothes. But within a month is game started giving them an error message and no longer works. They are so upset as well as I am because it was a waste of my money! I looked at the disc and it looks fine so I don't know what happened. I looked up the error code on the wii website but didn't really find any answers. So this would have been a great game if it would have continued to actually work!

I'm a huge fan of DDR, Just Dance, EA Sports Active More Workouts and other exergames, so I thought this would be fun. I don't find I'm able to get much of a workout at the levels that I'm able to master. Maybe it will come with time, but overall the learning curve and the benefit make this game just ok.

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