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Here's That Wii Curling Sim Starring Fergie You Were Asking About

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If I may pass some early judgment here, this is the dumbest thing I've heard of (today).

MTV has the world exclusive on a hot new game coming to the Wii from Electronic Arts this holiday season!

It's Celebrity Sports Showdown, a Wii Sports-like minigame compilation from the team that brought you EA Playground. It's got all your favorite sports, like curling!

...?

It'll also have some skiing, a little badminton, dodgeball, volleyball, and more. Here's the video:

  


...oh yeah, the catch is that it's full of totally awesome celebrities that everyone who owns a Wii obviously loves, like Fergie (THE DUTCHESS!!!!!!), LeAnn Rimes (NOT THE DUTCHESS!!!!!!), Nelly Furtado, Keith Urban, Sugar Ray Leonard, and more.

The sad part is that the volleyball actually looks pretty good. Too bad it got weighed down with a bunch of dopey "names" that ensure that I'll never ever feel good about playing it, but then, I'm hardly the target audience for weird stuff like this, right? If I was, this game would have Ice Cube, Edward Norton, and Sid Meier in it instead.

Go read MTV's story for the actual full story, instead of me just riling myself up by thinking about how awesome a volleyball game starring Sid Meier would be.

(NOTE: Like all other videos on MTV.com, apparently this is only viewable from inside the US.)
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MTV has the world exclusive on a hot new game coming to the Wii from Electronic Arts this holiday season!

It's Celebrity Sports Showdown, a Wii Sports-like minigame compilation from the team that brought you EA Playground. It's got all your favorite sports, like curling!

...?

It'll also have some skiing, a little badminton, dodgeball, volleyball, and more. Here's the video:

  


...oh yeah, the catch is that it's full of totally awesome celebrities that everyone who owns a Wii obviously loves, like Fergie (THE DUTCHESS!!!!!!), LeAnn Rimes (NOT THE DUTCHESS!!!!!!), Nelly Furtado, Keith Urban, Sugar Ray Leonard, and more.

The sad part is that the volleyball actually looks pretty good. Too bad it got weighed down with a bunch of dopey "names" that ensure that I'll never ever feel good about playing it, but then, I'm hardly the target audience for weird stuff like this, right? If I was, this game would have Ice Cube, Edward Norton, and Sid Meier in it instead.

Go read MTV's story for the actual full story, instead of me just riling myself up by thinking about how awesome a volleyball game starring Sid Meier would be.

(NOTE: Like all other videos on MTV.com, apparently this is only viewable from inside the US.)
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Yea, that looks uhhh...pretty lame.

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The volleyball looks like tennis, except more volleyball.

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They forgot P.diddy :(  

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Hey Jeff, I don't know if it is because I am not from the USA or what, but it says Video Not Accessible? So I'm guessing it's because I'm Canadian. : |  Is there a video viewable from youtube? or could you upload it elsewhere. Thanks in advance.

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Wow. And here I was thinking I'd have only Animal Crossing this holiday season...

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Show me the celebrity curb stomping mini game, and I'll be all over it.

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BEST GAME EVER. I'll take 10 copies please.

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wtf is this shit. It looks so great.

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Sweet Yamaguchi, finally!

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MTV really seems to have figured out their audience

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I don't get it. Developers can make interesting fun games for the Wii (No More Heroes, Boom Blox and the up coming Mushroom Men), but so many still put out shit like this.

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That sounds really bad, I'd be ashamed to be part of the team that puts that together, and what's up with MTV videos being accessible only in the U.S?

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Just when I thought EA was cool they throw it all away with stupid celebrity sport games.

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I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.

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is this a joke?! also i'm from europe and unfortunately i can watch the video ;)

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...wait what???

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<__<

>__>
volleyball actually looked decent. I still wouldn't touch this game with a 10 foot pole, though.

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yo, keith urban gots mad hops, son

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The volleyball and skiing look pretty decent if they didn't have those celebrities.

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what. the. hell. this has got to be a joke.

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Oh, that is hilarious. Don't think this'll be something I get.

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Ice Cube would totally school Edward Norton playing volleyball.

This is a fact.

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Video loads for me at least. Sweden here.

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this game doesent look that bad, actualy this is one of the better wii games iv seen since launch

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Thoroughly uninterested in this title.

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My god, that was curling and they can't see this in Canada.

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haha this is lollerific!!! wow i wonder if those celebs make any money off of this.

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Hmm. I'm from Malaysia and the video seems to be playing fine. Though after watching it, I can't exactly say that that's a good thing.

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GO LEANN AND YAMAGUCHI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Wow...a minigame compilation for the Wii?! NO FUCKING WAY!

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EA learned their lesson when Boom Blox failed.  Stick to quick cash-ins on the Wii.

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...whaa?

Also, country music stars have serious hops.  LeAnn Rimes and Keith Urban were getting up there.  You see that shit?

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This could actually be kind of cool, in a stupid way.  Once it hits $20 I may just pick it up for the fact that some friends and I could laugh at how ridiculous the whole thing is.

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I'm so glad I live in Canada and can't watch that video.

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You know what would be even better than a crappy sports game starring Fergie? A crappy sports game starring Fergy.
Make it happen, Rare.

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Awesome!  I've been saying they should have done Curling on the DS for ages... at least the Wii gets it.

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Also Sid was in some of the Civ games as an adviser and later in a tutorial.  I'd so like Sid to join my party.....

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None of these so-called celebrities have anything in common... I mean, Keith Urban and Kristi Yamaguchi together in a game?  Good God that sounds awful!

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I think they just pulled names out of a hat and called them up to see if they'd like to be in a game.

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That might be the greatest headline I've ever seen in my entire life.

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Fergie should be banned from this game. No one wants yellow snow.

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Got the same problem, not able to watch the video.

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They should make a movie villain minigame compilation. I would love to see Hannibal Lecter spike a volleyball right into Norman Bates's face.

Now just to figure out how to get HAL in the game as a playable character...

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Video works for me, and im from Australia

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I feel so old when I have no idea who any of these "celebrities" are....

But the volley and the skiing didn't look THAT bad. Not that I'll ever play it... but they didn't.

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Fergie looks like a horse.

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Dumb