Baby + Wii Makes 3

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Babysitting Mama takes the award for oddest peripheral I saw all show. With this title, you not only get the game, but a plush-baby doll sleeve to go over your Wii-mote.

The idea behind the game is to merge playing video games and playing with dolls, and as a result, you will have to do everything from rock the baby to sleep, burp, change and dress the baby, all as if it was a real tot. With the Wii-mote tucked away inside the baby doll, it will be able to read all of the player's actions and relay the movements back to the game. As an added bonus, the game will play sounds through the Wii-mote's speaker and make it seem like the noises are coming from the baby doll itself.

True to the Mama series, Babysitting Mama will send you through a torrent of mini-games that not only involve the above activities, but also let you play games like peek-a-boo as well as hide and go seek. While the other Mama games were angled towards girls, there wasn't much of an issue with the game being enjoyed by both genders, but adding the baby doll cover really makes the game all but an exclusive girl title. Not that there is anything at all wrong with that; video games should be enjoyed by all no matter age or gender, and targeting these younger female audiences is just the way to widen the market for video games in general.

Babysitting Mama will take the girl-gamers through several different babysitting jobs with six different babies, all of whom have their own personalities, likes and dislikes. During the demo we saw at the show, we not only got to witness having to rock the baby to sleep, but also a mini-game that had us making faces at the baby. In this case, we used the Nunchuck to stop spinning face-pieces in order to arrange the face that the baby wanted to see. Think of it as a slot machine, but where you are putting a face together instead of lining up fruits or coins.

This Wii title will be ready for little girls around the world this Holiday season, and it will be interesting to see just how well this latest Mama game is received.

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Product
Babysitting Mama
Company
Majesco
Date
06/24/2010