All Wii Previews

Active Life: Outdoor Challenge (Active Life: Outdoor Challenge)

Apr 22, 2008

The Power Pad is back! Kinda. Okay, maybe the original NES peripheral was a bit overhyped and underwhelming, but in our opinion, its biggest downfall was people not using it correctly. You, in other words. How many of us actually beat Cheetah without ending up on our knees pounding the buttons with out hands? That’s right, we all cheated. But it doesn’t matter with Active Life: Outdoor Adventure, because the pad allows you to do just that, plus it uses the pad in conjunction with the Wii Remote for certain situations... just to keep you honest. ...

Alien Syndrome (Alien Syndrome)

Mar 28, 2007

Segas on a roll. Skipping the obvious Monkey Ball gag, its clear that with both Sonic and the spherical simians scoring decent ratings, Sega has found a suitable format for their solid brand of game making. And it looks set to continue in this RPG re-imagining of the 1987 game of the same name. Players select one of five classes - Demo Expert, Firebug, SEAL, Sharpshooter or Tank - each with allotted skills and abilities. Demo experts fumble with a pistol in their hands while the big booms will ...

Alone in the Dark hands-on (Alone in the Dark)

May 23, 2008

Since inventing the survival-horror genre 16 years ago, the Alone in the Dark series has been defined mainly by creeping around in dimly lit corridors and hoping something didn't lurch out of the shadows to gnaw your face off. The creators of the new Alone in the Dark, however, want you to know that crawling through claustrophobic spaces won't be the focus this time around - and to hammer that point home, they'll literally tear those spaces ...

Alone in the Dark (Alone in the Dark)

Jan 18, 2008

When it comes to cutting edge trouser-spoilers, Resident Evil is still the daddy. Continually bending the rules of survival horror, the fourth game in the series was not only one of the best games on PS2, but probably one of the best games ever made. And yet… while they could certainly lay claim to propelling horror gaming forward with arse-clenching frightfests like RE Nemesis, Capcom cant claim to have invented the genre. That honour goes to Alone in the Dark, originally developed by ...

Alone in the Dark - interview (Alone in the Dark)

Dec 27, 2007

Dec 27, 2007 Our recent previews of Alone in the Dark delve into the use of light as a weapon and the creepy, gigantic Central Park setting. For our next trick, we talk to the game Producer, Nour ...

Alone in the Dark (Alone in the Dark)

Dec 10, 2007

Dec 10, 2007 Alone in the Dark is a game that has spent serious time in development - and, eventually, all the early hype surrounding it has ever so slowly trickled away... but, we said it before and well say it again, thats a damn shame because, put simply, the game is shaping up to be a cracker. Forget Alan Wake, forget Silent Hill 5, forget even Resident Evil 5 - this really could be the hidden gem of next-gen horror gaming… so weve donned our boots and delved back into a distinctly ...

Animal Crossing: City Folk (Animal Crossing: City Folk)

Aug 18, 2008

There’s nothing quite like Animal Crossing’s chilled-out, surprisingly addictive and potentially endless non-game gameplay. Having felt compelled to play the DS version, Wild World, almost every single day for the better part of three years, we can confirm that the only surefire way to break a chronic Animal Crossing habit is to take the cartridge on holiday and lose it. ...

Avatar: The Last Airbender (Avatar: The Last Airbender )

Oct 2, 2006

During the formative years of most of GamesRadar's veteran staff, games like Disney's Ducktales and Aladdin were often amazingly polished and fun, in spite of their obvious kid appeal. But somewhere along the line this changed, and cartoon-licensed games started aiming squarely at the rugrats. Good for them, but older game fans were left out. This is why THQ's upcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender is rather interesting. While it's not akin to the best of those old games, it's a very capable, ...

Avatar: The Last Airbender - first look (Avatar: The Last Airbender )

Jul 7, 2006

Avatar: The Last Airbender is one of the coolest cartoons on Nickelodeon these days. A far cry from the misshapen adventures of the Rugrats, it blends action and magic into a tasty blend of kick-ass Asian action. Just as a show like this can bridge the gap between kids and adults, the game THQ is cooking up brings the series' slick cartoon visuals together with the kind of action RPG gameplay mature gamers have come to love. Think X-Men Legends, and you're getting there. Avatar's world is ...

Baroque (Baroque)

Feb 13, 2008

Purged by flames, the world’s remaining population is mutated by distorted fantasies, created to help stomach the inhospitable remains. Heartless meshes of flab, cogs and metalwork - enough to give even Silent Hill’s freaks the willies - these ‘meta-beings’ crawl the world, devouring humanity’s leftovers. Distorted fantasy being the very definition of ‘baroque’ itself. Animal Crossing it ain’t. It ...

Battalion Wars 2 (Battalion Wars 2)

May 30, 2007

This is the summer for online multiplayer. Well, assuming we get Battalion Wars before the summers over. Which, er, we wont. But with its continually delayed but impressive-looking stages and three - count 'em - different online multiplayer modes, “BWii” has us shoving the nearest cushion down our throats to avoid biting our tongues off in giddy excitement. ...

Battalion Wars 2 (Battalion Wars 2)

Aug 25, 2006

Wednesday 23 August 2006 After a lengthy wait in the lengthy Wii queue - the Leipzig Game Convention really is the new E3! - we were able to play a multiplayer match of the recently announced Battalion Wars 2. Featuring the Xylvanians and other familiar sides from the original (the final game will feature six playable sides), we were tasked with protecting positions on the map from rampaging show-goers. Looking at Battalion Wars 2 in action, you might be forgiven for thinking it's still the ...

Battalion Wars 2 - hands-on (Battalion Wars 2)

Aug 24, 2006

After a lengthy wait in the lengthy Wii line in Leipzig, we were able to play a multiplayer match of the recently announced Battalion Wars 2. Featuring the Xylvanians and other familiar faces from the original (the final game will feature six playable armies), we were tasked with protecting positions on the map from rampaging show-goers. Looking at Battalion Wars 2 in action, you might be forgiven for thinking it's still the original game - the major difference being, of course, the control ...

Band Mashups - first look (Battle of the Bands)

Feb 7, 2008

Even though we're drowning in Guitar Hero sequels and Rock Band peripherals, gamers just can't get enough of the rapidly expanding music genre. Wii gamers, on the other hand, only recently got in on the act with Guitar Hero III. But without downloadable tracks and Rock Band still to come, what're faux rockers to do? ...

Ben 10: Protector of Earth (Ben 10: Protector of Earth)

Aug 15, 2007

As we understand it, the kids these days are awfully into cartoons. Thats fine. Were sure theyll eventually develop a love for shuffleboard and fiber supplements like the rest of us. But in the meantime, theres Ben 10: Protector of Earth for the Wii – an action-platformer based on the Cartoon Network series of the same name. Playing the role of ten year old Ben Tennyson, youre given a powerful watch known as the Omnitrix, which is capable of transforming you at the flick of a wrist. ...

Big Beach Sports - hands-on (Big Beach Sports)

Apr 4, 2008

Understandably, we were a bit cynical when we heard about yet another casual sports minigame fest for Wii, but it looks like Big Beach Sports is actually set to deliver a few fresh twists on the genre. We were told the game is aimed at the "European audience," which explains the inclusion of cricket and soccer (football) in a beach game. Rounding out the six total games in Big Beach are volleyball, American football, disc golf (Frisbee golf) ...

Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree (Big Brain Academy)

May 31, 2007

The fundamental concept of physical weight training is actually that you use the muscle in question - say, your biceps - so much that it is exhausted, gets injured and heals up bigger and stronger. This is important because Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree borrows this premise, then applies it to your gray matter. It may be fun, but make no mistake: this game wants to injure your brain. The method the game uses to create this synaptic apocalypse is by subjecting you to 15 different mini-games, ...

Big Brain Academy - hands on (Big Brain Academy)

Mar 12, 2007

A year ago everyone was unscrewing their heads and proclaiming their undying love for Nintendo's handheld hit, Brain Age. A few months later, in June '06, the second wave of mind-muscling software came in the form of Big Brain Academy, a series a quirky minigames that focused more on fun than tracking actual performance as Brain Age did. In June 2007, one year after the DS game hit, Big Brain Academy will return with another round of logic puzzles, this time on the Wii. If you spent any time ...

Blast Works - first look (Blast Works: Build, Fuse and Destroy)

Oct 5, 2007

October 05, 2007 There's a growing tendency of late for companies to buy up succesful PC homebrew or casual games and dump them onto every system they can. The results usually range from uninspired to disastrous, but sometimes they rock. flOw on PS3 is captivating, Line Rider looks great, and Blast Works could be fantastic. Based upon a PC homebrew game called Tumiki Fighters, it actually combines the gameplay of old fashioned, 2D shooters with the sticky world of ball-rolling sensation ...

E3 07: Boogie - hands-on (Boogie)

Jul 11, 2007

Boogie cleverly blends rhythm with singing (into the specially-made Wii USB microphone) - but it also gives the player the option to do one or the other. So anyone who makes Jordans voice sound like that of an angel (with auto-tune turned off) neednt write this off as a wasted exercise. Theres a Karaoke and Dance mode, plus Story, which lets you play through the unique stories of the games five characters doing a combination of ...