All Wii Reviews

Wacky Races: Crash & Dash (Review)

Jun 18, 2008

Wacky Races would like to consider itself on a par with Micro Machines - in both, your input into the races is minimal. You can’t accelerate or brake, just simply waggle the Wii-mote to boost, and steer with the Nunchuk. Dick Dastardly occasionally steps in with simple minigame ‘booby traps’ for your racers to avoid, but they’re uninspired and disruptive to the flow of a race. Younger audiences might get a brief kick ...

Wall-E (Review)

Jul 2, 2008

Damn you Wall-E, and damn whoever decided to come up with that way our trash-compacting, lonely-hearts-surfing robo-friend constantly repeats his own name in gurgling, quasi-’endearing’ fashion. It’s not cute, it’s not appealing, it’s... oh, the movie’s set to rake in $250 million? Ah. Shows how much we know. Still, at least the blatantly nicked premise shows promise. Take sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf and ...

WarioWare: Smooth Moves (Review)

Jan 16, 2007

The Wii is already bloated with party games, but there's a good chance the frenetic pace and schizophrenic style of WarioWare: Smooth Moves will topple them all. Using only the remote (called the Form Baton here), you'll engage in 200-plus ultra-fast minigames that range from clipping fingernails to balancing on a ball to whacking the thieving arm of a dodgy old man. Each lasts mere seconds, and then it's off to the next with barely any time to catch your breath. It's fast, it's fun and most ...

We Love Golf! (Review)

Jul 15, 2008

You know you’re in safe hands when you load up We Love Golf. It’s that Camelot logo – it instantly speaks of heritage and gravitas. It’s also the final nail in the coffin of the dream that someday the Wii might play home to a golf game that actually feels like real golf. After all, if they can’t do it, no one can. ...

We Ski (Review)

May 13, 2008

The Adonis-like figures bestowed by Wii Fit go someway toward justifying that hefty balance board start-up cost. But, for our money, it’s the strength of supporting third party software that will truly justify the purchase. ‘Babes’ digging our mad balancing skillz will only get it a free pass for so long; a sorry looking pile of sneered at DK Bongos reminding what fate befalls a library-less peripheral. ...

Wii Fit (Review)

Apr 29, 2008

We’re sweating bullets - and we haven’t even stepped onto the board yet. Of all Nintendo’s wacky lifestyle experiments there are none that skirt as close to the game/non-game border as this. Nintendo’s previous jaunts into the realms of mental and ocular betterment have always had gamey connotations - we cannot, after all, pull homemade eye and arithmetic tests out of thin air. ...

Wii Play (Review)

Feb 12, 2007

After spending no more than an hour with Nintendo's latest assortment of minigames, we'd unlocked everything there was to see. Considering the simplicity of all nine included games, it's plain to see that this is actually a $10 budget game bundled with a "free" Wii Remote, which runs about $40 anyway. But even if the value is suspect, there's still a decent amount of fun to have - just dont expect another multiplayer explosion like Wii ...

Wii Sports (Review)

Nov 21, 2006

When you're introducing people to something radically different from what they're used to, it's a good idea to start off slow and simple. With that in mind, Wii Sports is the perfect pack-in for Nintendo's Wii console; not only are its simple minigames fun and ultra-accessible for casual gamers, but you couldn't ask for a better tutorial on using the motion-sensitive Wii remote. The title might sound intimidating or even boring to non-sports-fans, but Wii Sports tosses out stuff like stat ...

Wing Island (Review)

Mar 20, 2007

Carrying out acts of daring missions through the bright sunny skies is an attractively heroic concept, played out to a glorious fanfare reminiscent of Studio Ghiblis superb flying pig movie Porco Rosso. Alas, in reality it has all the flying finesse of holding a plastic spoon full of baby food and faking plane noises to pilot it into a babys mouth. The Wii remote handles like a miniplane in your hand; you dip the it, the plane dips instantaneously; you twist it, the plane twists ...

Winter Sports: The Ultimate Challenge (Review)

Jan 23, 2008

World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions (Review)

Feb 28, 2007

Its all about celebrities. Poker on TV gives you Sir Clive Sinclair sitting looking concerned in a hat. But World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions has the ultimate celebrity: ...

Worms: A Space Oddity (Review)

Mar 18, 2008

This is how you fire a banana shot in Worms: A Space Oddity. First, you awkwardly position your worm into place using the D-pad. Then, you press the minus button (yes, the minus button) to access your weapons menu. But - oh no! - Team 17, wacky as they are, have dressed everything up in a rather confusing space-related theme, so you spend the next 45 seconds gingerly wobbling from one crudely drawn menu ‘picture’ to another. ...

WWE SmackDown! vs RAW 2008 (Review)

Nov 13, 2007

Nov 13, 2007 Right now, WWE is all about fresh starts. The show has cleaned up its act by suspending 11 wrestlers - roughly 3,000 lbs of disgrace - for their use of body-enhancing pharmaceuticals, and the SmackDown! vs Raw franchise makes its debut on Wii. An arcade-y experience at heart, the ethos behind WWE on Wii is the opening up of the full flamboyant wrestling experience to even the greenest of wrassling aficionados. With the moves mapped not onto replicated motions but directional ...

WWII Aces (Review)

Apr 2, 2008

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 ...