Gamers’ Edge

Published June 18, 2007 4:00am ET



Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree’

Feeling intelligent? Think again. Nintendo has a new game that will let you know just how light your brain really is.

After the success of the Gameboy DS’s take on “Big Brain Academy,” “Wii Degree” brings the lightning-quick intelligence quiz gameplay to the console.

Testing your mental abilities, “Wii Degree” breaks the tasks down into categories such as memorize, calculate and visualize.

These short tests will measure how well and how fast you can pop numbered balloons from lowest to highest and how well you can remember the faces of ugly children as they zoom past the screen.

The gameplay gets old, but it’s designed so that you can build your skills and get faster.

The single-player quizzes give you an overall grade and approximate weight of your brain.

Multiplayer puts you and friends into teams to either race through the tests or take turns choosing which categories to compete in.

This makes for a great party game assuming you’re not playing with someone vastly smarter than you.

‘Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree’

4/5 stars

» System: Wii

» Price: $49.99

» Genre: Learning