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I was super-curious to see how the Move compared to the Wii remote, and I have to say that I was pretty impressed – the EyeToy tracking offers a lot better precision than the infrared of the Wii remote. There have been a lot of times when I've gotten mad while playing a Wii game because the system isn't tracking correctly, causing me to screw up, but I didn't run across that in my brief time playing with the Move.

I got to check out Sports Champions and Start the Party (because no family-targeted initiative is complete without the obligatory sports and mini-game compilations). It was pretty annoying that you couldn't create your own avatar for Sports Champions, especially since the ones the game provided were kind of annoying. Volleyball proved embarrassingly true to life – I felt the same sense of shame and inadequacy at my poor performance as I do when I'm actually playing the sport. Archery and bocce ball (are those actually sports?) were fun, but gladiator fighting was kind of annoying, and just made me wish that I was playing Soul Calibur instead.

Start the Party had some pretty cute mini-games, and the art style was fun, but the biggest problem with both titles for me is that it was hard to see either one holding much long-term value. At this point, when we've seen a ton of party games and sports compilations hit the market, you have to do something pretty special to stand out of the pack – and neither of these did.