I pre-ordered a Gold limited edition Nyko wireless Kama nunchuck when it became available. I was in the market for another chuck, and the Nyko Kama seemed like a decent one to try out. Normal ground shipping, and it arrived quickly.



For the last 3 hours, I have been playing games with it after receiving it today.

First look at the packaging, normal clam-shell design begging to be pried open.



For a limited edition, there are no #XofX on the box, but it's no big deal. Not everything does that. Nothing to complain about from the packaging. Time to open.

Inside comes with the nunchuck, receiver, strap and included batteries. Sided by a wiimote for size comparison. It's practically identical to the normal nunchuck minus the cabling. Power button to turn it on/off, and a sync button on the left. Pretty simple.



Assembled is nothing extraordinary. There's a slot on the bottom of the receiver for the Wiimote's strap to pass through, and everything fits together nicely, with the matching thick straps.



The Z and C buttons are jeweled and etched in, looking very nice. Even better than the A button on the Wiimote.



Now that everyone knows what we're looking at on to the game play. For my test games I picked Wii Sports Boxing, The Godfather Blackhand Edition and Spiderman 3 due to varying motion controls, fighting, and driving available in these choices.

The chuck did require syncing initially, but all following games did not require that once it knew what to communicate with. First was Boxing. I hadn't played boxing in a while and was fairly rusty. Even so, the Wiimote and nunchuck both responded equally to my swings, and I noticed no lag between the two looking specifically for it. After getting beaten up a couple times I went on to Godfather.

Godfather was quite enjoyable. Driving with the chuck's pad was easy, responded fluidly with no further lag. Punching people with left/right combos, all the way up to executions were flawless and responded very well. I got engaged in the game and ended up spending an hour playing around. Eventually I moved on to Spider-man 3 for the full motion swinging test.

Once in Spider-Man 3 I finally felt free with the Kama nunchuck to swing around the city. When paying attention to not having a cord I really did notice a difference. Swinging left and right hands was still fluid and operated as well as the previous games. Again I started having fun just playing the game and after a while I forgot I was even using the wireless nunchuck and had fun swinging around the city and beating up fruit-pie thiefs, which is what one looks for when changing hardware.

In the end, so far I am happy with my purchase. I eventually didn't notice the difference in controls between the regular hardware and everything seems to work exactly as advertised. I would recommend this to anyone that might benefit or enjoy having less wires. The biggest enjoyment is forgetting about the hardware and just playing the game. 10/10. Well done, Nyko.

Originally Posted by linuxghost It'd definitely be cool to have a wireless nunchuk, but the big thing stopping me is having YET ANOTHER set of batteries. 2 per Wiimote is enough. To have 2 more per nunchuk is just getting ridiculous. If Nintendo made a wireless nunchuk that had a rechargable battery pack inside, or was powered by the wiimote's batteries, I'd probably pick it up.

Originally Posted by PyroJing There really is no way for a wireless nunchuck to be powered by the Wiimote, that's what the cord is also for.

Originally Posted by linuxghost I was under the impression that the batteries for the wireless nunchuk went into the little transmitter station that plugs into the wiimote. If they go into the nunchuk itself, then you're right, I'm stupid.