I have to admit that I bought this game purely for the fifty 'party' games that are a supposed side-show to the game proper. I have played the main game probably less than ten times in the last six months - it's fun, the object being to guide your monkey along an obstacle course inside his little monkey ball - but it's not a patch on Mercury Meltdown Revolution, which has a similar (but by no means identical) gameplay.

The party games are excellent, particularly if you regularly play multiplayer games with friends or family members. There are fifty of them ranging from the relatively sane to the downright daft, but you will need multiple remote controls and nunchucks to make the most of them. Some are modelled on sports that have multiplayer mini games elsewhere. For instance there are tennis, bowling and baseball - style mini games that you may think are unneccesary given Wii Sports. However, for the most part the Monkey Ball versions are more fun oriented and are different enough that you could enjoy them separately to Wii Sports. The downright bonkers games are impossible to describe, but are very very funny to play. The game has come right down in price now and I would say that this is the best 'mini games' collection out there for the money right now.