GamesRadar - Wii Reviews

G1 Jockey Wii [import] (Review)

Jun 22, 2007

G1 Jockeys release is a byproduct of you and seven million other Wii owners reaching out for new games with your fourteen million clasping game-hands. G1 Jockey comes recommended because of its neat career mode structure. You get to choose from a list of horses for each race, make decisions based on characteristics - which are presented as an intuitive list of light-up tabs and then see first-hand if you made the right choice as you straddle your decision while it pounds around a ...

Game Party (Review)

Dec 12, 2007

Dec 11, 2007 Wii is quickly becoming a third-party crap magnet and Game Party is the latest game you shouldnt buy unless youre either really easy to please or one of the 10 people who rented Gigli just to see how bad it was. Game Party is no Gigli, but each of the 7 events collected here has its fair share of mechanical issues (except maybe Hoop Shot and Trivia) that nearly take the fun out of partying. Here, in all their half-baked glory, are the games: Darts, Table Hockey (air hockey), ...

Geometry Wars: Galaxies (Review)

Nov 20, 2007

Nov 20, 2007 At its core, Geometry Wars: Galaxies is pretty much the same as Retro Evolved on the 360, and that's a good thing. You still pilot the same old claw-shaped ship and must survive never-ending waves of hostile shapes that attack you from every angle for as long as possible. Dodging death by mere pixels, while blasting your way through swarms of enemies amidst the colorful chaos is still mesmerizing on the Wii, but does Galaxies have enough meat to warrant the price of a full game? ...

George of the Jungle and the Search for the Secret (Review)

Mar 13, 2008

Much like George of the Jungle the movie, we suspect this would suddenly become massively entertaining if experienced under the influence of various intoxicants. As a platformer it’s not awful, but that’s probably the best that can be said about it. Still, despite its licensed nature and similarity to so many other genero-games, the Wii controls are actually decent enough. Often intuitive, they make pretty decent and unintrusive use ...

G-Force (Review)

Jul 28, 2009

We’ll hand it to Disney Interactive – after decades of publishing mediocre-at-best movie/game tie-ins, it might have cracked the formula for creating a fairly good movie-based game. Here’s the secret: instead of trying to make your game resemble the movie, try to make your movie more closely resemble a video game. Like the kinda-okay Bolt before it, G-Force makes its transition to the world of video games with ease. ...

Ghost Squad (Review)

Nov 21, 2007

Nov 21, 2007 Despite being the staples of modern arcades, there are hardly any lightgun games on Nintendo formats. Ever since they went all out and created a bazooka instead of an ordinary gun peripheral for the SNES, everyone has steered well clear. There was nothing on the N64 and nothing on GameCube, while PlayStation and Dreamcast had so many of the things, you could choose from about 20 different types of third-party guns along with the official ones. But now that we have a Nintendo ...

Ghostbusters The Video Game (Review)

Jun 17, 2009

The dreams of thousands, nay, millions of twentysomethings came true recently. Despite delays, a publisher change and a few holdout actors, the Ghostbusters are back, two decades after their last film. And while the PS3 and 360 get the more lifelike and filmic interpretations of the foursome, Wii owners get a version that, while trimmed, at least tried a little harder than most Wii games to be something special. ...

G.I. JOE: The Rise of Cobra (Review)

Sep 14, 2009

Some games are stupid, and some games are G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. It’s so stupid we’ve invented a new genre for it: stup-’em-up – games that primarily involve lasers. Sometimes, instead of firing lasers, you’ll lob a grenade – that’s called variation – and sometimes you get in a car and crash into a mountain because of the worst driving controls known to man. ...

The Godfather: Blackhand Edition (Review)

Mar 21, 2007

The Wii finally has its first free-roaming, Grand Theft Auto-style car-crime game, and it's... The Godfather. Again. It's been a full year since the multiplatform mob drama first arrived in game form, and the appearance of The Godfather: Blackhand Edition on Wii means it's officially hit every single platform except the DS and mobile phones (although we're willing to bet The Godfather: Touch Madness and The Godfather: Horrible Mobile Edition are already in the works, somehow). Still, given ...

Godzilla: Unleashed (Review)

Dec 5, 2007

Dec 06, 2007 You wouldn't know it from the nearly identical packaging or from the website that it shares with the PS2 and DS versions, but the Wii version of Godzilla: Unleashed is a notably different game. Sure, you're still playing the part of a giant monster stamping around various cities and mashing other monsters in the face with buildings, but there are several things here you won't find in the other versions. This results in a better game, although it's still rife with problems. The ...

The Golden Compass (Review)

Dec 21, 2007

Dec 19, 2007 The first levels blast you right into the action as mighty polar bear warrior Iorek, viciously slaughtering Inuits and wolves as you carry the heroine Lyra through dramatic icy wastes. Its messy, and unoriginal, and painfully linear (even stepping one inch out of line will reveal hidden walls), but it is at least fast and action-packed. Problem is, the game tells the story of The Golden Compass all out of sequence, and soon youre back at the start of Lyras journey, snooping around ...

Gradius ReBirth (Review)

Aug 13, 2009

There are lots of things that Gradius ReBirth is harder than. Nails. Hulk Hogan. Licking your own elbow. And this leads to one of the game’s unfortunate downfalls – such difficulty has very limited appeal. Only fans of ridiculously hard 16-bit shooters will be in their element with this Gradius ‘remix,’ drawing elements from the first two games and the GameBoy iteration. ...

Grand Slam Tennis (Review)

Jun 8, 2009

You can tell the difference immediately. You open up the invisible face of your ‘racquet’ to drive an imaginary forehand down the line, and that’s exactly where the on-screen ball goes. Put a bit more angle on the swing, aiming for the opposite corner, and the ball goes that way, too. Impressive! ...

Gravity (Review)

Apr 15, 2009

When we say that this is just like the DS version, we mean exactly like the DS version. Only it’s worse, so not exactly like it. It’s got the same 100 puzzles and the same minigames (there’s an extra one here, but it’s not much cop). If you bought the DS game, you’ve no reason to get this if you’re looking for fresh conundrums. ...

Groovin' Blocks (Review)

Oct 5, 2009

Remember this cheeky chappy? It was an 800-point WiiWare download, but now we get a beefed-up retail version with extra songs and graphical effects. Don’t get too excited, though, because while Groovin’ Blocks is far from the worst game on the service, the concept isn’t strong enough to justify the extra cost. ...

Groovin' Blocks - WiiWare (Review)

Oct 15, 2008

Lumines has ruled the music-infused block-puzzler roost for too long. Groovin’ Blocks may not have the slick ‘rightness’ of that rhythmical tyrant, but its ideas are at least fresh. Just like Columns, the aim is to link three blocks of similar color. Drop the blocks in time with the music’s beat and you’ll build a score multiplier. ...

GT Pro Series (Review)

Jan 19, 2007

One of the first racers on the Wii sets a particularly low standard that every future Wii-racer has to beat. The poorly cel-shaded graphics engine may have been passable on current-gen machines, but this is next-gen – as powerful as the Wii's competitors are, but still. The soundtrack is a shocking state of affairs, the cars sounding how you think mud would sound if it could talk and in the background is a Europop house soundtrack. On top of this the handling is awful, with cars ...

Guilty Gear XX Accent Core (Review)

Oct 25, 2007

Oct 25, 2007 If there's one thing the Guilty Gear games have always done well, it's get us pumped up to kick some faces in. And with its blasting rock music, brilliantly colored fighting arenas, and frantic one-on-one 2D fighting action Guilty Gear XX Accent Core doesn't stray from tradition. In fact, it's really not much of a change at all - one might call it a stripped down, re-mastered XX, which is a bit disappointing when we're used to every iteration of the series pushing it to new areas. ...

Guinness World Records: The Videogame (Review)

Dec 9, 2008

We feel a Guinness award for ‘longest sustained eye abuse’ is due. Dear old Guinness Book of Records – that venerable bible of inanity – churned out every year just in time for the Christmas holidays. If you know who owns the largest collection of airplane sick bags in the world, you’ve probably got a Guinness tome gathering dust at home. ...

Guitar Hero 5 (Review)

Sep 25, 2009

Shout it out loud: after the relative comedown of Guitar Hero: World Tour, the series is back with an installment set to keep you glued to your instruments ’til at least two minutes to midnight, six days a week. Neversoft2 and Vicarious Visions haven’t just taken one big holiday since the last Guitar Hero and tried to sneak out an update low on new features as expected. ...