Wii Go Vacation is the latest mini-game collection for the gaming system. Wii Go Vacation follows in the tracks of Wii Sports Resort, Wii Sports, and Wii Party. Go Vacation is very similar to Sports Resort with the location moved from Wuhu Island to Kawawii Island. One main difference from Sports Resort is Go Vacation allows the players to travel around the island and interact with the surroundings. The game offers over fifty mini-games along with a few hidden surprises, a treasure hunt, and several other little activities for their Mii.
The games in Go Vacation are separated into four resorts. There is the Marine Resort, The City Resort, the Mountain Resort, and the Snow Resort. All the 
resorts have a central village where the Mii can change clothes or request transportation to one of the other resorts. One of the coolest things about Go Vacation are the different modes of transportation throughout the resorts. The Mii can travel by horseback, Jet Ski, roller blades, ATV, snowmobile, snow board, and many other options depending on what resort it is in. The resorts also offer mass transportation in the form of hot air balloons, ski lifts, and trains.
Players can access the games either by selecting individual activities or 
through the resort modes. Individual activity selection has to be unlocked as players complete games in the resort mode. Upon entering Kawawii Island, players will be sent on a stamp dash. Players must earn 20 stamps playing different mini-games to complete the first round. Upon completion of the first round players will be granted their very own vacation villa. The villa can be custom decorated by the player, which sounded more fun than it actually turned out to be. The decorating itself was a somewhat tedious task of dragging and scrolling through different colored furniture. Nonetheless, it’s a nice personalized touch some may get a kick out of.
There are many other little personalized touches throughout the game. My favorite was the ability to add your own pet dog character to run around with you on the island. Players can also unlock new outfits to wear and choose 
friends to pal around with. Features aside, it’s the games we are here to play and they honestly offer a mixed bag. Each resort offers games appropriate to the resort theme. There’s snowboarding, skiing, skydiving, racing, scuba diving, snowman building, roller blading, and all kinds of games in each resort. Some are very fun and challenging, while others are a little boring. Sky diving simply involved rotating your Mii until it was in the right formation with the other sky divers. Building a snow man was basically stacking two or three balls of snow on top of each other and then choosing what the snowman would wear.
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