Active Life Outdoor Challenge

Outdoor Challenge offers a variety of fast-paced games that engages your whole body for a fun and challenging experience. Using the specially-designed mat and the Wii Remote, you compete in over a dozen single and multi-player events like river rafting, mine-cart adventure, log jumping, and more.

Jump into the fun with Active Life Outdoor Challenge. The first of many planned titles in the new Active Life series, Outdoor Challenge offers a variety of fast-paced, heart-pumping games that will engage your whole body for a fun and challenging experience.

Using the specially-designed eight pad Active Life mat and the Wii Remote, players get totally physical as they compete in over a dozen single and multi-player challenges like river rafting, mine-cart adventure, log jumping, and more. Simple controls and intuitive actions make these games easy to pick up and play right out of the box and in the process will get you and your whole family off the couch and into the game in no time.

Game Features:

• The Active Life Mat - A fun and easy way to get off the couch and get hearts pumping.
• Gameplay Variety - Play over a dozen fast-paced games, alone or with friends,in energetic events that gets players' whole bodies into the action.
• Intuitive Gameplay - Simple controls allow for quick pick up and play. Great for parties.
• Play Together - With both competitive and co-operative challenges.
• Track Character's Fitness Progress - See your character's body change according to how you play.
• Tremendous Replay Value - Over a dozen games, each with multiple levels of play: river rafting, mine-cart adventure, log jumping, see-saw, jump rope, water trampoline, plus many more.
• Other Features - Includes training mode to work different body parts and synchronization gauge to check the level of team work in cooperative play.

Screenshots:

Enjoy challenges on the land. View larger.

And on the water. View larger.

Battle friends in multiplayer action. View larger.

Or team up in co-op play. View larger.

My family has all had a lot of fun with the wide variety of games included here! From single player games - to head to head combat - each game is entertaining. It is also nice that you can use your own personalized WII characters in each game setting. Well worth the investment considering the floor mat is included in the bundle - and I believe you could use the mat in other games that allow it as well! Highly recommended!

Read several reviews comparing this to the Wii Fit. However, it really is for kids and doesnt come close to the veratility and excitement of the Wii Fit.

This game is so much fun! My kids (9, 6, and 4) all love to play it. They can compete against each other, or work as a team (which I love). In the teamwork mode they receive a score based on how well they work together. We had 8 kids here the other night, and although it's a 1-2 person game, all 8 kids were jumping up and down and leaning left or right as if they were all playing. This game really gets your heart pumping and you may break a sweat. In fact, I even like playing this and I am not a gamer. Great family fun!

We bought the Wii specifically for games that are more than "thumb exercise." We LOVE this new game. My spouse and I play against each other for a little friendly competition or we play with the kids in teams. The game is a good cardio workout! All that running and jumping has us warmed up and out of breath in no time! We also love that you can use your own "Mii"s in this game (wish you could do so in "Game Party" too!) If at first, the mat's response seems a little quirky, don't fear. As you get a feel for the mat, and the games, this improves. Our favorite activity is the Mine Cart race. Our least favorite is the kayaking (because you only use the remote, which is boring to us.) The mole stomper game is sure to be a hit with the younger crowd, but makes the grown ups laugh as well. The mat that comes with this game easily folds away when not in use and does NOT require batteries, a HUGE bonus in our minds.

Ok I read the reviews and decided to try it. I have to say the game is so much fun. And it is a game I can do with my 4 yr old and 6 yr. It gets us all up running and jumping about. We just got it so I can't speak to the longevity of the mat....only time will tell. I paid $50 for the game and mat combo and it is totally worth the money....especially when you consider most games are $40 alone. If your goal is to get the kids moving around this is a good game for it!