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Mar 13, 2006

The Revolution will be ... locked out?

Wii Preview | Wii

Some interesting stuff here. Apparently every Revolution will have a "play control system" that will enable parents to choose which games are playable on the console. Right now we know the European system will conform Pan European Games Information (PEGI), which is the overseas equivalent of the ESRB rating system - no word on if the US version will let people lock out "T" or "M" rated games. If so, you have to wonder what types of games Nintendo may be open to with that level of optional ...
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Mar 13, 2006

Eye candy costs too much

Wii Preview | Wii

Got an HDTV? If you're sticking with Nintendo on the next console wave, it probably won't matter. The company's next console, still named Revolution, won't support the high-end 720 and 1080 resolutions of newer televisions or be the strongest gaming machine on the shelf. Late last year, Nintendo offered this official (yet automated) response to anyone who emailed the company about hardware power: "High definition graphics look fantastic, but come at a price. To shine, high definition games ...
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Feb 14, 2008

Wii Fit

Wii Preview | Wii Fit

Huffing and puffing. Aching all over. Sweat glistening on a furrowed brow. All this just from lifting the balance board out of the box. Behind that nimble white exterior lies a weighty stash of blubber-monitoring tech, all designed to complement the Wii Fit software and rate you from fatty to flimsy. It’d be wrong to cast a health-conscious critical eye over Wii Fit, so instead we ask the simple question: is it actually fun? ...
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Jul 16, 2007

E3 07: Wii Fit

Wii Preview | Wii Fit

Brain Age captured the minds of gamers and non-gamers all over the world. That one game may have single-handedly helped push the DS into its current state of world dominance (Pokemon sure doesn't hurt either), and now Nintendo's hoping Wii Fit does the same for its motion-sensitive console. We just stepped off the pressure-reading Balance Board and you know what? It's not too shabby. As has already been explained, the device detects small movements of balance and shifting weight. The demo ...
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Nov 16, 2007

Wii Music

Wii Preview | Wii Music

Nov 16, 2007 Bad news first: there's still no confirmed release date for Wii Music and there's not that much new info. Still, what this month's Nintendo conference did give us was a set-in-stone 40 instruments (guitars, drums, bass, trumpets, folk guitars, er, maracas), further glimpses at how the controls work and the sight of the AI supporting you on ...
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Jan 2, 2007

Wii Play

Wii Preview | Wii Play

By way of introduction, every new hardware innovation needs a readymade software demonstration - Super Mario 64 showed us how to use an analog stick, for instance - and Wii Play is designed to introduce the delights of the Wii controller (Japanese players didn't get a free Wii Sports with purchase). It does that by clumping together nine mini-games. And thats it. Simplest game of the year. Its not quite as limited as it sounds, though. There are all sorts of different control methods here, ...
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May 11, 2006

E3 06: Wii Sports

Wii Preview | Wii Sports

As demonstrated by Nintendo main man Shigeru Miyamoto himself on the stage of Nintendo's pre-E3 conference, Wii Sports is the brightly-coloured multiplayer, multi-event title designed to entice lapsed or new gamers into getting to grips with Nintendo's new console. Incorporating golf, baseball and tennis, the gameplay in Wii Sports has been kept deliberately simple so that players can use just the Wii-mote and not bother with the nunchaku part of the controller. So in the tennis game, for ...
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Aug 19, 2008

Wii Sports Resort

Wii Preview | Wii Sports Resort

Yes, that’s right, Nintendo have augmented their wobbling wonder-wand with a motion-sensing booster, making possible the 1:1 exact gesture control we’ve dreamt of since we first unwrapped the white plastic super-controller. ...

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Feb 22, 2008

Wild Earth: African Safari

Wii Preview | Wild Earth: African Safari

When the words ‘safari’ and ‘videogame’ appear in the same sentence, we can’t help but think of the Cabela hunting ‘simulators’, as they refer to them. With targets that include everything from polar bears to leopards, and gameplay ranging from crap to sewage flotsam, it’s little wonder that we’d be skeptical. In direct contrast to Cabela’s lust for slaughtering our furry friends, Wild ...
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Apr 15, 2008

World of Goo - hands-on

Wii Preview | World of Goo

With a name like "World of Goo" and a genre that rests somewhere around puzzle game/construction sim/physics lesson, it's perfectly normal to approach this fledging WiiWare title with reservations. However, our fears quickly melted away like the game's own oily black goo once we had a proper sit down and understood just how addicting linking inky blobs together could be.

The premise, like any good puzzle game, is simple - you need to ...

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