Common Sense Media Review
By Michael Lafferty
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
Short movie-based game with romantic themes.
Parents Need to Know
Why Age 11+?
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Grease
What's It About?
GREASE is essentially a series of mini-games that features backgrounds and characters from the 1978 movie of the same name. It is a party game that features many songs from the movie, with lyrics moving along the bottom of the screen so that players can sing along. The mini-games involve waving the Wii remote around in specific gestures, memory games, and challenges that have players mashing buttons to match on-screen prompts.
Is It Any Good?
This game is very short and won't be much of a challenge for more experienced gamers. The music is fun and the clips from the movie are nice, but the mini-games are a bit repetitious. Players will end up doing the same matching motions in several of the games, which essentially is mirroring a string of motions or commands shown onscreen with the remote commands. Songs play in the background and the games use the song's timing with iconic characters from the movie singing and dancing to the recognizable themes, but some of these motion-matching games just seem to drone on. The only break from this is when the game moves to a sports-themed mini-game or a car race. Even as a party game, Grease will have limited appeal.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about relationships between teen-aged boys and girls. Are they depicted here with anything approaching authenticity?
Families can also discuss good and bad role models. Do you think the characters in the game are good or bad? Do you think the characters in the film fall into either of those categories?
Game Details
- Platform : Nintendo Wii
- Pricing structure :
- Available online? : Not available online
- Publisher : 505 Games
- Release date : August 24, 2010
- Genre : Mini-games
- ESRB rating :
- Last updated : September 28, 2022
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