Wii Reviews

What EA giveth, EA taketh away. For every improvement or addition to the Harry Potter series there must be a subtraction – presumably to keep the universe balanced or something. Order of the Phoenix introduced a sprawling, detailed version of Hogwarts, for example, but scraped out every shred of ‘game’ as a result.

Much like Monopoly, Hasbro Family Game Night is one of those puzzling videogame conversions. Yes, there’s the novelty value of seeing your favorite game turned all electronic and TVish, and yes, the games bring new modes that wouldn’t be possible in their traditional form.

Amazingly, for a series we thought could only go downhill after a lackluster debut, the second Family Game Night is a little better than the first. Yes, that’s right – ‘better’. But also only ‘a little’.

The games selected for the Wii treatment this time are far more suited to console jiggery-pokery.

Typically, we here at GamesRadar want to root for those underdog budget games that manage to make it to retail with all the other big boys in the industry. So you have to believe us when we say that we take absolutely no pleasure in tearing apart games like Heavy Fire: Afghanistan...

It would have been fair to expect Hell’s Kitchen to be a Cooking Mama-style cook-‘em-up, but instead it focuses on all aspects of the restaurant. You’ll take orders, serve customers, cook food and placate CGI Chef Ramsay at every turn. Gordon begins each round just as he begins each day – incandescent with rage, ready to hurl (cuss-free) abuse at any lesser food-makers who dare to set foot in his kitchen. 

The Mayans were wrong and the apocalypse is here three years early. Earth is in the path of a string of decidedly large, random objects hell-bent on Earth’s destruction. Our only hope rests on the withering shoulders of a decrepit grandfather and his two ambiguously gendered grandchildren.