Big Beach Sports

The English weather can't be trusted. It's a pretty well known fact. In winter - cold and wet. In summer - slightly less cold and about as wet. We need some kind of summer in our lives, so it's just as well that THQ and HB Studios Multimedia have brought Big Beach Sports to the Wii to introduce a spot of summer to our lives.

The action plays out on a luscious tropical island, where players can take part in volleyball, soccer, American football, boules, disc golf and cricket playing using a host of cartoony avatars.

The game is controlled using just the Wii Remote. Swing across your chest as you would with a real frisbee for disc golf, slam the ball down with over-arm gestures for beach volleyball or wield the Remote as you would a cricket bat. The controls fit intuitively with how you'd the real life sports.

Players can make their way through the game in single-player mode or (and this is where the real fun is) battle it out with up to three other players in multi-player mode.

Who needs to get onto Shipwrecked when you've got a Wii in your front room?