Deca Sports 2 ready to deliver more minigames this fall

by Alexander Sliwinski { Apr 13th 2009 at 3:45PM }

Thanks to the success of the original, Deca Sports 2 is ready to be the newest not-Wii Sports minigame collection for the console. The latest iteration will add 10 new sports, including motorcycle road racing, speed skating, hockey, moguls, dodge ball, tennis and darts. It'll release this autumn.

As it wouldn't be a proper sequel without some enhancements, Deca Sports 2 will allow competition against "DECAthletes" from around the ~~world~~ country and allow customization of uniforms, teams, skill sets and team appearance. We can't wait to see the Admiral Ackbar synchronized swimming team.

Gallery: Deca Sports 2

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

trE @ Apr 13th 2009 4:32PM

Deca Sports was such garbage. WTF is wrong with you people buying it?

kid_ic @ Apr 13th 2009 5:41PM

Yo, If they do as announced and offer another 10 games, including "motorcycle road racing... hockey... dodge ball, tennis and darts," (which sound fun), tighten the controls, add decent online play, and a slew of customizations, and keep this at the $29.99 budget price of the first Deca Sports and Hudson's other disc-based Wii offerings of late, then I think this will be something to look out for!

...That is, if you enjoyed the first or are still looking for something in the Wii-sports vein.

kid_ic @ Apr 13th 2009 5:41PM

And to answer the "WTF is wrong with you people for buying it?" question and the dubbing of Deca Sports success as "shameful" by Alexander/Joystiq just hours ago, I'll reiterate what I mentioned before:

I think that bloggers and "gaming journalists" - for the most part - have seriously failed to develop a metric to evaluate casual sports games like Deca Sports. The game has been fun for everyone I've played w/ it -- anecdotal evidence for sure, but the 2m sales speak for themselves -- and it exceeds as a casual title w/ twice the content of Wii sports and a variety of games that hadn't been done to death when it arrived early in the Wii's life.

Hudson is actually a respectable developer and not some fly-by-night Wii shovelware company. They put a lot more time and effort into developing this title then other "casual" title developers on the system, they reached out to fans about what sports people wanted to see in the game and what the name would be, put effort into marketing the title, they delivered an easy to pick up and play title that found its audience despite mixed reviews...

I do understand the logic that some people "hate" these games out of fear that developers will put their resources into "lazy casual" offerings instead of "core games," but that didn't stop Hudson from releasing Onslaught, Alien Crush Returns, it's best Bomberman in years, Star Soldier Collection, Marble Saga: Kororinpa and the upcoming Adventure Island Wii(ware)-make and Military Madness (Wii/Ps3/Xbox).