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| Developer(s) | EA Canada |
| Publisher(s) | Electronic Arts |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo DS, Wii |
| Release date(s) | NA October 23, 2007 EU November 2, 2007 JP March 6, 2008 AUS November 8, 2007 |
| Genre(s) | Sports game |
| Mode(s) | Single player, Multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: Everyone PEGI: 3+ |
EA Playground is a video game for the Nintendo DS and Wii by Electronic Arts. The game is inspired by Wii Sports.[citation needed].
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Gameplay
The Wii game features various mini-games structured around a singleplayer "campaign" and a multiplayer party mode. All of the mini-games are based on well known playground games [1]. These include Dodgeball, Tetherball, Slot car racing, paper airplane racing, dart shootout and wall ball. Also included is "Kicks", which is a mix of the sports Soccer and Volleyball (Sepak takraw). More games can be unlocked by progressing through the single player campaign.
The Nintendo DS version of the game includes several exclusive game modes including Spitballs (which uses the microphone input), Bug Hunt, and Skateboarding which takes advantage of the stylus. Again, the games are unlocked by going through the Single Player Campaign. These games can then be played in the Quick Play mode.
Wii Games
- Tetherball - The object here is to smack the ball around the pole so that your opponent can't hit it back while your opponent tries to do the same thing.
- Dodgeball - Here, you try to get all the players on your opponent's team out by hitting them with balls.
- Wall Ball - In this game, you try to hit the ball against the wall through power-ups (for example, warp holes) so that it goes past your opponent. If you do this, you score a point.
- Slot Car Racing - The basic object of the minigame is to get to the finish line in first place.
- Kicks - This game is a mix of soccer and volleyball. You have to kick the ball over the net and into the opponent's goal.
- Dart Shootout - Your goal is to shoot the targets with sad/mad faces on them to earn points(not the happy faces; those subtract points), shoot people to also earn points, and beat the level boss.
- Paper Airplane Racing - To win you have to steer your plane through obstacles to the finish line getting power-ups like speed boosts extra time, and sometimes red, green, and blue rings.
DS Games
- Dodgeball - Using the stylus, you control 3 players on the bottom screen in a game of Dodgeball against AI opponents on the top screen.
- Kicks - Soccer-inspired game against an AI opponent.
- Bug Hunt - Moving your player with the stylus, collect butterflies and avoid stinging bees for as long as possible.
- Trampoline - Bounce higher than your opponent while avoiding birds and bursting balloons.
- Spit Balls - Blow into the microphone (or use the trigger buttons) to fire spit balls at kids in the playground.
- Skate and Sketch - Join the dots with the stylus to perform tricks on the half-pipe. Increasingly complex shapes must be drawn faster as the game progresses.
- Hoops - Pick up balls and throw them in the basket, using score multiplier zones to score higher than your AI opponent.
- RC Car Racing - Top-down racing against 3 AI players. Pickup weapons and turbos on the track.
- Hopscotch - Rhythm game where you must reproduce patterns on the court.
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