Yahoo Games: Family Fest Presents: Circus Games Review

Yahoo Games writes: ""Now if you’ll excuse me, I have an audience to disappoint"– it’s the last line spoken by the evil Ringmaster in the opening cinematic of Circus Games: 20 Big top Classics for Wii. You see, the Ringmaster wants to sell the circus, but the only way he will be allowed to do so is if people stop coming. He does this by making the show as terrible as possible. Seriously, I’m not making that up. That really is the story set-up for this game. And it’s obvious the Ringmaster knows what he’s doing, because this circus is awful.

You play as little Jake, an intrepid young boy that happens to overhear the Ringmaster’s plan to get rid of the circus. It’s up to Jake to save the day, and you’ll do this by playing mini-game after mini-game, as you try to win back the audience with your crazy circus antics. The opening cinematic is probably one of the worst I’ve ever seen. It’s created by sticking still cutouts of awkward looking CG characters over static backgrounds. It gives you an idea of the game’s bottom-of-the-barrel production values right off the bat – a good indication of what’s to come."