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Sep 27, 2006

Excite Truck

Wii Preview | Excite Truck

Wednesday 27 September 2006 Nintendo's spiritual successor to side-scrolling scrambler Excitebike (released for NES in 1986) might be generations ahead of the 2D pixelated racer in terms of graphical oomph, but Wii's Excite Truck still packs many of the original's gameplay mechanics under its mud-spattered bonnet. Indeed, the tracks we sampled during our recent hands-on - a sun-soaked and beach flavoured Fiji circuit, along with a more traditional off-road inspired Mexican course - may have ...
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May 23, 2006

Excite Truck

Wii Preview | Excite Truck

Tuesday 23 May 2006 If there's one type of gaming that truly benefits from Wii's sensory-overload controller, it's the racing genre. Instead of holding the wand like a pointer, you use both hands to position it horizontally - and turn it like a steering wheel. This makes Excite Truck all the easier to play and its accessibility is only enhanced by its amazing simplicity. The early version we played featured two courses - one tropical and another an arid desert. Regardless of which track we ...
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May 11, 2006

E3 06: Excite Truck - hands on

Wii Preview | Excite Truck

If there's one type of gaming that truly benefits from Wii's sensory-overload controller, it's the racing genre. Instead of holding the wand like a pointer, you use both hands to position it horizontally - like a steering wheel. Everyone, in theory, knows how to drive using a wheel. This makes Excite Truck all the easier to play, and its accessibility is only enhanced by its amazing simplicity. For E3, Nintendo had two levels to try out, one tropical and another an arid desert. Regardless of ...
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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? ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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