Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll (Wii)

In SUPER MONKEY BALL STEP & ROLL, players use either the Wii remote or the Wii balance board to guide a monkey in a big, clear plastic ball along treacherous twisting platform mazes. Along the way, you can collect bananas to gain extra lives (you lose a life when you either fall off the course or can't finish within the one-minute time limit). Outside of this main game, there are also 21 multiplayer mini-games, including pinball, snowboarding, jump rope, luge, bumper cars, skydiving, and more.

The main thing anyone is likely to complain about with Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll is the difficulty. There is a great deal of skill required to make it through the entire game. But the twist and tilt action is one that almost anyone can improve through practice, and the thrill of finally making it through a level that has been repeatedly thwarting you is so much powerful than simply acing a game from the get-go. The game is incredibly fun and certainly worth sticking with, even if you can't master it all easily. The mini-games are a mixed bag -- some offering great 4-player action, others feeling like they were tacked on. But they're all just icing anyway (and there are 21 of them, which is just as many as you get in some games that are sold as mini-game collections), so it's hard to be too upset about the few duds in the bunch.

Available on: Nintendo Wii
Not available online
Genre: Action/Adventure
Developer: Sega of America
Released on: February 9, 2010
Price: 49.99
ESRB Rating: E for MIld Cartoon Violence