Introduction

Active NFL Training Camp is the newest game under the EA Sports banner, this time for the Wii platform made by Nintendo.  This is a game that purports to give the user the full range of activities from an NFL training camp, allowing the user to simultaneously see what life is really like at training camp while also getting the chance to get in shape in the same way that the professionals do, albeit in a virtual setting with limits on intensity versus the real thing.  Read our reviews to learn more.

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Quantity and packaging

In an overall sense, the two main strengths of this Wii game can be reduced down into the two categories of quantity and packaging.

The quantity aspect comes into play through the startling number of different exercises and routines that are available to a player on the Wii.  In total, when you add up all of the different drills and challenges for drills that can be played, there are nearly 75 different activities that the user can go through.  This is much more than most of the fitness programs that have been released for the Wii to date and that is definitely something that many people that have purchased some of those programs can point at as being a positive point for this console game.

Packaging is another important aspect to NFL Training Camp by EA Sports because the exercises that you are doing with this game are not really that different from most of the other exercises released for other Wii titles.  However, the packaging is different and because of that it will likely be attractive to a wide range of people that have not really been interested in this industry to date.

Lots of people love football and the idea of being able to enter a virtual training camp, using wireless motion sensing devices and a mobile heart rate monitor while seeing the drills of a football camp on screen is an idea that is attractive to a lot of people.  It is an idea that should be attractive because EA Sports has gone to great lengths and consulted with many of the experts in NFL level training in order to create as realistic a simulation as is possible given the boundaries and limitations of the hardware on the Wii.

Conclusion

The bottom line with NFL Training Camp by EA Sports is that it is more about the packaging and the sheer number of things that you can do with this program than it is about innovative new exercises.  That is not necessarily a bad thing.  If you can enhance your strength by pushing against blocking dummies with the same exercise that you find boring when it is done with virtual weights in a fitness club, it makes sense for you to purchase this game.  It is all about what works for an individual user.  EA Sports understands this and that is why they have created a convincing package of football training camp to get many people interested in Wii fitness titles that might otherwise ignore this genre of gaming entirely.

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