Much like a traditional board game, “Mario Party 8” is all about interaction between ... of the Wii’s motion-sensor controllers: To shake up a soda can you shake the controller; to balance ...

A good number of minigames will have you holding the remote sideways in standard gamepad fashion, but you'll also swing at baseballs, furiously shake ... up the difference. Mario Party 8 is ...

Mario Party 8. Eight Mario parties ... pump it in the air to shake up a can of fizzy-pop, aim with it to shoot targets, etc. A surprisingly large portion of the mini-games are so lazily conceived ...

Nope. In Mario Party 8's bowling mini-game, you merely make a down/up movement with the Wii remote and have no genuine control over the ball. To call these efforts disappointing would be an ...