Wii Previews

Filter by Game name

ALL A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0-9

View as:
List
Thumbnail
Blog
RSS

Sort by:

May 19, 2008

FaceBreaker - First look

Wii Preview | FaceBreaker

FaceBreaker is the spearhead title in EA's new gaming 'brand', Freestyle. Freestyle is all about accessibilty and approachability, apparently, which translates into a cartoon boxing game that puts high value on 'old school' gameplay - which is what EA reckons everybody loves. But can we love FaceBreaker? ...
» Read More

Mar 28, 2008

FaceBreaker

Wii Preview | FaceBreaker

Peter Moore used to lead the line at Microsoft’s games division; before that he worked at Sega and helped launch the Dreamcast. Why the walk through Moore’s resume? Because he moved to EA last year and FaceBreaker is the first sign of where he feels the publisher’s been going wrong. FaceBreaker aims to take the core gameplay of Fight Night Round 3 and push it through a cartoon filter, injecting arcade nonsense into the genre not ...
» Read More

Mar 27, 2007

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Wii Preview | Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Theres something troubling about superhero teams. To us, the term superhero denotes an extraordinary lone wolf with enough dazzling abilities to banish evil alone, so surely the fact that he needs three buddies to thwart neer-do-wells suggests there are underwhelming powers in the mix. While it takes only one Spider-Man to bring down Green Goblin, it takes four, er, Fantastic Fours to bring down Dr. Doom, meaning they are each, in effect, one-quarter of the hero Spider-Man is. That, or Green ...
» Read More

Mar 14, 2007

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Wii Preview | Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

The last outing for Marvel's fab four, published by Activision, not 2K Games, was a mediocre affair with predictable button-bashing action that barely tested your skills. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer benefits from PS3's bolder, crisper graphics, while the gameplay's been enhanced to test your wit as well as your rapid-finger ...
» Read More

Jan 5, 2007

Far Cry Vengeance

Wii Preview | Far Cry Vengeance

Thursday 4 January 2007 The popularity of Nintendo's Wii is as mainstream as it gets right now. Everyone - from little kids to teenage girls and radio DJs - is presently in a furious arm-swinging, remote-flinging frenzy over the sleek white box. So how ironic is it that the "family-friendly" system is also playing host to so many first-person shooters, that most bloody and controversial of all gaming genres? It may be incongruous but it also makes perfect sense. The Wii-mote screams to be ...
» Read More

Nov 29, 2006

Far Cry Vengeance - hands-on

Wii Preview | Far Cry Vengeance

The popularity of the Nintendo Wii is as mainstream as it gets right now. Everyone - from little kids and teenage girls to radio talk show hosts and cable pundits (Stephen Colbert, anyone?) - is presently in a furious arm-swinging, remote-flinging frenzy over the sleek white box. So how ironic is it that the "family-friendly" system is also playing host to so many first person shooters, that most bloody and controversial of all gaming genres? It may be incongruous, but it also makes perfect ...
» Read More

Oct 25, 2006

Far Cry Vengeance - first look

Wii Preview | Far Cry Vengeance

The thing was bigger than a house, it was uglier than a pitbull and its performance in Japan couldn't have been more of a disaster if it had launched with a game based on Hiroshima. But one thing the original Xbox was pretty much untouchable at was first-person shooters, and right at the top of the tree, just behind the powerhouse Halo twosome, was Ubisoft's fantastic Far Cry Instincts. Instincts was magnificent for two reasons. Firstly, it flipped the FPS template on its head by setting the ...
» Read More

Jun 20, 2008

Fatal Frame IV

Wii Preview | Fatal Frame IV

The Fatal Frame games have established themselves as the byword for suspense-filled horror. There are no showers of blood or shotguns, no hideous demons with heads attached to their backsides, and definitely no muscle-bound heroes called Jack. Instead, you play as a fragile-looking Japanese schoolgirl and are only ever armed with a flashlight and a special camera that can exorcise the ghosts that haunt whatever spooky location it is that you ...

» Read More

Jan 15, 2008

Fatal Frame IV - coming soon?

Wii Preview | Fatal Frame IV

Jan 15, 2008 Fatal Frame IV (or Project Zero in Europe) is set to be another example of how the Wii dominates Japan via Nintendo-exclusivity. In this survival horror series, ghosts are your enemies; and because being incorporeal makes them resilient to sticks and stones (words will never harm them), the only way to defeat them is to take their photo, thus sealing their souls in the film. (The current iteration uses SD cards ...
» Read More

Jun 7, 2007

FIFA 08 - hands-on

Wii Preview | FIFA 08

In direct opposition to its big bro, mini FIFA is certainly a case of tweaking and fine-tuning over any wholesale alterations. For instance 07s defensive intelligence was a weak point, something that EA was keen to remedy. Thanks to the new right analog player switching and vastly improved AI, any goals you concede will now fall firmly at your feet. This new realistic defending includes increased spatial awareness regarding threats and danger zones, putting more pressure on the ball carrier, ...
» Read More