Have you played Wii Play target shoot? Then you’ve played most of Wild West Guns. To Gameloft’s credit, they squeeze more fun out of similar lightgun challenges – combo chaining for massive scores is addictive stuff and interactive backgrounds allow for experimentation. The cowboy visuals are nicely handled, though how the same female hostage ends up in the middle of every bandit shootout is beyond us. ...

Taking a leaf out of Carnival Games’ funfair-based minigames book, Wonder World is a budget-priced collection of 30 or so, er, carnival games. Themed areas host broadly similar game types – shooting targets, grabbing objects, throwing small things at bigger things and so on – and the points earned by winning games can be spent on passes to the next area or trinkets for your avatar. ...

World of Goo is bubbling with ideas. Born from a student project to create a game in just seven days, the original’s single mechanic was the ability to pick up little black goo-balls and place them near one another to form wobbling structures of squishy struts. No goal, no purpose; just a limit to how high you could scroll and the compulsive desire to reach that limit. ...

Someone’s been saying their prayers and eating their vitamins. After a diva-thin offering in 2008, Wii owners might be justified in wondering what features have been cut from their version this year – but the answer is this: not much at all. The Road to WrestleMania storylines, the hot tag feature, the career modes, the create-a-wrestler/entrance/tournament options, ladder and cage matches, online play – all present and correct. ...

It was the appeal of guiding a World War II plane as gracefully as a conductor guides an orchestra that prompted our eagerness to try WWII Aces' Wii Remote-only control scheme. Visions of smooth, intuitive dog fighting danced through our heads, only to be shattered by the control scheme's harsh reality. Furiously waggling the remote rarely prompted a response, and when one occurred, it was almost never what had been instructed: bending a ...