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Endless Ocean: Blue World | 
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Category: Video Games
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Rating:  57 reviews
Sales Rank: 299
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Genre: simulation_games
ESRB: Everyone 10+
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
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Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
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MPN: RVLPR4EE
Model: RVLPR4EE
UPC: 045496901837
EAN: 0045496901875
ASIN: B002BS47L2
Publication Date: February 2010
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| Features:
| • | The ocean is teeming with life. Hundreds of real-life species are there to be discovered, from seahorses to giant whales. | | • | Are the local fish sick or agitated? Players can view their health status and then use a tranquilizer-like tool to zap the ones in need of rehab with healing energy. | | • | The game also includes a storyline that players can follow as they choose. The plot involves Oceana, a woman who investigates the ?Dragon?s Song,? which her father, a prominent ocean explorer, was searching for just before his death. | | • | While at Nine Ball Island, players can become friends with a dolphin and teach it some new tricks. When ona dive, players can even bring along the dolphin, which players can hold onto for extra fast swimming. | | • | For the first time in the series, friends who have broadband Internet access can connect and dive with one another via Nintendo® Wi-Fi Connection, while using the Wii Speak? microphone to converse. |
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Amazon.com Product Description
Journey into the blue once again with this Wii game where players get to explore the ocean and interact with its sealife. Endless Ocean: Blue World builds on the ocean experience first introduced with Endless Oceanâ¢.While the last game emphasized relaxation, this one is designed with more adventure in mind. Divers might find themselves escaping from or calming down attacking sharks, exploring shipwrecks or finding treasure. Endless Ocean: Blue World also has more creatures and improved graphics designed to fully immerse players in an ocean environment that they can freely explore at their own pace.
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Dive back into the Blue again! Endless Ocean 2 will take you on a relaxing adventure where you'll discover ancient ruins, treasure, exotic reefs and much more. Not only will you get the benefits of an enhanced graphical look, but you'll also have the opportunity to meet more marine life and even run into dangerous situations. Best of all, this time around you wont have to do it alone! Nintendo's Wii Speak technology allows you to connect online with a friend or family member to communicate and dive together. So don't forget your diving buddy! Key Game Features: - The ocean is teeming with life. Hundreds of real-life species are there to be discovered, from seahorses to giant whales.
- Are the local fish sick or agitated? Players can view their health status and then use a tranquilizer-like tool to zap the ones in need of rehab with healing energy.
- The game also includes a storyline that players can follow as they choose. The plot involves Oceana, a woman who investigates the “Dragon’s Song,” which her father, a prominent ocean explorer, was searching for just before his death.
- While at Nine Ball Island, players can become friends with a dolphin and teach it some new tricks. When ona dive, players can even bring along the dolphin, which players can hold onto for extra fast swimming.
- For the first time in the series, friends who have broadband Internet access can connect and dive with one another via Nintendo® Wi-Fi Connection, while using the Wii Speak⢠microphone to converse.
- Players: 1, 2 via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection
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Product Description
Endless Ocean Blue World Wii
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 57
 IT' S A BLUE PLANET - AND IT' S ALL YOURS TO EXPLORE! February 22, 2010
NeuroSplicer (Freeside, in geosynchronous orbit)
98 out of 102 found this review helpful
Ever since I watched those old 80's Jacques Cousteau documentaries, the idea of one day snorkeling myself never left my mind. So far I never had the opportunity to dive but I often catch myself daydreaming about underwater excursions. Until I can add a check-mark beside that item on my before-I-turn-forty-list this game offers an excellent substitute.
Dive & Relax. Leave the world behind you and become on with the underwater realm.
The locales are beautifully designed, the fish, whales, dolphins and the rest of the marine life move in a very realistic fashion. The missions are pretty simple and most have an educational parameter but it is mostly about exploring at your own pace. Well, you do have to mind the oxygen level...
The underwater sounds are very well made and placed whereas the background music is a soothing companion. All in all ENDLESS OCEAN: BLUE WORLD is an excellently designed and produced diving-simulation game.
This is a game that will bring you home early, it will put a smile in your face and it will relax you like no other game.
I cannot emphasize this enough: this game is DIGITAL MASSAGE. It soothes your nerves, relaxes your body and puts you in a very easygoing mindset.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
Great underwater adventures February 24, 2010
Michael
42 out of 44 found this review helpful
I'd love to go diving someday, but I'd probably not get to do more than a day of diving on a vacation. This game is about as close as I'll ever to living a worldwide underwater documentary.
This is a game that builds your underwater imagination and gives you true adventures. Movies and video games teach our kids that there is no adventure without stuffing every moment with action and explosions. Instead of shoving entertainment down a kid's throat, this game brings back memories of exploring the woods behind my house when I was younger and creating my own experiences. Those who've already been brainwashed into modern movie ideology might find it too dumb because of it's lack of violence or their type of "action", but imaginative kids will have exciting trips into underwater worlds!
It's fun to play, and the only violence is when a shark or something attacks (and you subdue them in a non-violent way). I could swim for a few hours in the area I'm in now and not cover the same ground twice! The little bad I can say about the game is really irrelevant compared to the good!
The good:
-large areas to explore with lots of stuff to find.
-goals and freedom. A better non-violent sandbox game than animal crossing! (ok, low violence)
-while the graphics won't knock your socks off, they're great wii graphics.
-I like the relaxing music. A lot of people say it's new-agey, but I think of new-agey being all synthy and blobus. But it just seems to be relaxing music that fits the pace of the game.
-$30. I mean really, this is a full game being released at a budget price.
The bad:
-The story isn't so amazing.
-No spoken text.
The not sure yet:
-There's some fantasy in the special tool you have to heal and calm fish and the story has some supernatural influences. At first I thought I thought the stuff took me out of the reality of the game, but the story and the tool are starting to grow on me.
-You don't swim very fast. But this both relaxes you and adds more tension to when you're low on air (even though there isn't much of a penalty to run out of air).
-Haven't had time to try the multiplayer, but I hope to soon! I'm sad that you can't complete the game co-op online, but it still sounds cool.
A small note is that I was concerned because the box's ESRB rating says "mild suggestive themes" for playing with my nephews and nieces. I looked it up on the ESRB website and the mild suggestive theme is: "And a collection book containing information about constellations and legendary Greek gods includes the following passage: 'Apollo, god of the sun, was deceived by the raven, who acted as his messenger, into believing that his lover had been unfaithful to him.'" So there seems to be no real "suggestive themes".
I've only had this for today, so I know my review is only based on the beginning of the game. I promise to update in a week or so when I'm much deeper into it. But, I do suggest you pick this up while it comes with the free wii speak since the wii speak is currently $16 alone. $30 for both is a steal!
Had the game for a few weeks now. I'm still playing and enjoying it. My 2 1/2 year old boy loves watching me play. He seems to especially like sharks and whales. I got it for my nephews and nieces too and they just excitedly told me about the sunken castle they found... I will do multiplayer online with my my relatives soon and let you know how that goes.
Improves upon the original March 2, 2010
Seth Dewey (Nashua, NH USA)
26 out of 27 found this review helpful
I thoroughly enjoyed the first Endless Ocean, but found that once I had explored all the areas on the map, the game became a bit repetitive. The sequel corrects most of the gripes I had about the original. Improvements include:
- No more having to repeatedly "touch" or feed new creatures in order to have their names appear. Simply hitting the 'A' button when a creature is selected focuses on the creature and shows its name.
- A more expansive storyline. Still a bit simplistic, but more interesting than the original.
- A much larger world to explore. I am several hours into the game, so I don't know just how much more there is to be revealed, but already there are far more diving locales, than the single one in the original. You can also go exploring on the shoreline. This is how you discover new marine mammals, as opposed to having them randomly pop-up on your boat in the original.
- More to do. There are side quests, and special requests that are separate from the main storyline.
- Some dangers are present. Diving is an inherently dangerous pursuit, something not apparent in the original. It took forever to run out of air in the original, and there were no creatures that posed any danger. Now you need to plan your dives more careful, as air doesn't last as long (though you can earn money to upgrade your gear and get longer dive times). There are encounters with dangerous creatures that you can calm with your "pulsar" tool. Coming into contact with them hastens the use of your air. This adds some more excitement value.
I have not yet tried the Wii Speak feature, nor cooperative online play. I don't believe either feature is necessary to enjoy the game, though they may be nice extras.
In summary if you liked the original, I expect that you will like the sequel even more. If you like role playing and quest driven games, you will probably enjoy this. It is a nice way to unwind, as opposed to the typical more frantic game. This is a single player game that all ages can enjoy.
Yet another great "diving" experience for the Wii! February 25, 2010
M.D. Edwards (Newport News, VA)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
As soon as I saw that there was going to be a sequel to "Endless Ocean", I got my pre-order for it in right away, and I'm glad that I did!
This game is just what I was hoping it'd be: it offers improvements on the graphics seen in the first game, but the game play itself is just as tranquil and soothing as it was in the first "Endless Ocean". There's no waiting around or need to "unlock" anything before you get introduced to the cool and intriguing sea creatures you're hoping to encounter. I opened it and started playing yesterday, and, after logging about two to two and a half hours of playing, I've already encountered a leafy sea dragon, a whale shark, a weedy sea dragon, a tiger shark, batfish, humpbacks, West Indian Manatees, Manta rays, humphead wrasses, and California fur seals, just to name very few of the beasties I've "swum" with.
The game now offers the option of using the Classic controller, in addition to the traditional Wii remote, and the tutorials for each are very thorough, and make game play very easy. I don't know if I've just gotten better with navigating through the water without so many superquick flips that disoriented me in the first game, or if the creators just opted to make the controls less hyper-reactive, but either way, it's definitely an improvement.
I do wish that the game creators had opted to add a few human voices in with the new characters, as opposed to just sticking with the captioned speech bits, but they didn't, and it's really not a big deal. I have to say, while I'm mentioning cons, that I found the opening credits listing creators, editors, CGI folks, etc., to be quite self-indulgent, but the graphics have been improved enough that I can forgive them for doing it, since you'll only be subjected to it until you save your game for the first time! ; )
Really, if you liked the first one, I honestly can't imagine that you wouldn't love this one. If you've never played the first one, and are looking for a different, non-violent, soothing game play experience, at the release price of thirty bucks, I just don't think you can go wrong. And, for those of you that're able to score the box that includes Wii Speak (which is the one that I got), you can either look at it as having gotten a thirty dollar Wii Speak for free, or as having bought a Wii Speak and gotten a pretty sweet brand-spanking new game for free. It's a win-win, either way!
Have fun "diving"!
10 year old daughter LOVES THIS GAME!!! March 8, 2010
Kristi A. Gay (Fort Wayne, IN)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Our ten year old daughter loves this game!
It encourages reading skills (both content and expression), map skills, compass use, tracking characters and plot to the conclusion, identification and classification of various ocean life, geography, myths and legends, and more...
She has both Endless Ocean games and loves them both. She was particularly engrossed in Endless Ocean 2: Blue World. So much so that she cried when she thought it was done after solving the Song of Dragons... Thank goodness you can keep going after that! She wants to know when more Endless Ocean games are coming out.
Over the past two years of owning both Endless Ocean games, she took up swim classes and begged us to go to Discovery Cove in Orlando, FL so we could all swim with the dolphins. So she completed several sessions of swim classes and we went to Discovery Cove. She got to swim with the dolphins and snorkel through the "river" there and the artificial reef full of different kinds of fish and stingrays. Seeing her swim with the dolphin at Discovery Cove and the look of SHEER JOY on her face was worth the price of this game a thousand times over. It's one of my best family vacation memories and it's all because of these two Wii games.
As a former teacher (my husband still teaches), I love the learning opportunities and quality family time that you can have with this game if you choose to explore it together. Yes, you can play the game alone, but if you want to be involved with your child's play of the game, there are opportunities to do that together that are very rewarding. We have looked up different countries (information, photos, maps, etc.), mythical gods, various fish and marine mammals, etc. on the internet while she has played the game. She just pauses the game and we stop to look things up.
I ***HIGHLY RECOMMEND*** this game. Our game came packaged with the Wii Speak, which I believe sells for $16 separately. This is a tremendous bargain on an already fantastic game.
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