G1 Jockey for the Wii, anyone played it?

Chumpski

Saw this yesterday and it looks interesting using the remote to steer and the nunchunk as a whip. Anybody played it? Any good?

donkey 2002

Seen a few reviewers playing it and they liked it. It is basically a raceing car game only with horses. You also have to look after your stable and keep the horse happy.
I can't stand horses so it won't interest me but the racing does look great fun

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

lol
never heard of this game
wish I could rent wii games.. this sounds weird

Doodah7

It was out on the PS2 a good few years back. Picked it up in GAME recently for a fiver. Very hard to win a race. In addition there's about a gazillion horses (or so it seems) to keep track of and it made my brain hurt...

brainiac

n.Rev reviewed it, they hated it, its only out in Japan atm anyway.

Retr0gamer

From what I've heard of the previous G1 Jockey games they aren't arcadey racing games but hardcorer horse management and racing sims. They are supposedly very, very tough. Unless you are really into horse racing and management I'd look into it a bit more.

Kurtosis

brainiac wrote:

n.Rev reviewed it, they hated it, its only out in Japan atm anyway.

Errr, no.

It's been out here since Friday.

Chumpski

No saw it in gamestop on sunday and it looked interesting so its defenetly out in Ireland now. Sounds like its selling well!!

sham69

Have it.
Was playing it last night for a few minutes.
Its good fun but I am not sure if i would recommend it.
could be good fun with 2 players (not sure if you can, must check)

Chumpski

Review on eurogamer. 7/10.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=79793

Sound for the replies everyone.

It actually sounds very good from their review. Finished God Of War 2 yesterday so ill probably get this and play it next since i havn't used my wii much since april.

I turned it on yesterday and i was just looking over those notes about playtime and i was surprised to see ive barely turned it on since april when i finished twilight princess!

CiDeRmAn

I have it and it sucks like nothing has ever sucked before, the time it took to go through the long tutorials and finally race, thats 30mins I'll never get back you know!
I could have been playing DiRT or SOTC, disgraceful!

flogen

G1 Jockey was actually a really popular series on the PS2 when I worked in Game - always had people coming in asking about it (and it was really hard to find too).

Don't think I'd get the game myself, but that's a pretty decent review from Eurogamer all the same.

richie.c

I've played it and thought it was rubbish. Only for hardcore horse enthusiasts.