I joined Wiidownloadspro in July to see what games I could get to carry on enjoying my Wii gaming experience. What joining means is that you receive two pdf files with very clear instructions about how to get started downloading Wii games, so in my opinion it’s not really a club that you join. Read the rest of this entry »
Unknown to most of the general Wii population is a burgeoning community of Wii enthusiasts who are dedicated to improving their Nintendo Wii experience. It’s not however without its potential pitfalls.
Team Twiizers have developed a Wii channel you can upload to your Wii to install all their hacks:
Instead of the annoying side by side split screen in Wii Sports 2-player boxing (annoying if you haven’t got a wide screen), Facebreaker gives a single mostly side on view of the action as it takes place. There is an element of comedy, faces distort comically as they’re hit, and also display damage accumulated during the fight. Facebreaker also shares other fight game concepts, characters have their own special moves, for example Voodoo throws a magic voodoo bolt that makes the opponent attack themselves. The game has many rich colorful and charismatic characters, so beats Wii Sports boxing hands down in this area. The game doesn’t seem to be Queensbury rules either, which makes for a lot of interesting moves:
Soon to be released (early ‘09 we hope) in the great Guitar Hero series is Guitar Hero 4, and this time the whole band gets to play! Following the EA’s Rock Band format, as well as the lead guitar, there’ll be bass, drums, and even a microphone for singer in you (admit it, you always wanted to sing, but only got to after several tequilas and a karaoke machine, right?) .
And this time the song catalogue is much bigger to, with rock, heavy metal, and even some hip hop. Van Halen and The Eagles tracks have been confirmed along with Linkin Park, but no mention of Thin Lizzy as yet ( Whisky in the Jar anyone?).
New features include a studio to create your own songs and if you’re not happy with the default band members you can create your own from scratch, even customising the instruments too! No price has been announced as of yet but its safe to hazard a guess being in the same region as Rock Band, that’s about £180, but I’m sure Nintendo will allow people to buy the instruments individually allowing people to purchase their favourites first (are you listening Nintendo?). Wii gaming rocks!!
This week we were treated to a glimpse of the future for Wii gaming at the E3 games conference, held in Los Angeles. The new add on, the Wii MotionPlus is promised to bring more in depth motion sensitive capability to Wii gaming, in that it is more sensitive to hand and wrist movement (imagine how accurate Red Steel could have been!).
The MotionPlus is small, almost cube shaped, and plugs into the Wiimote’s nuchuk port. It offers more accurate coordination in 3d space than the Wiimote alone. Nintendo claim that every movement made by not only the hand and wrist but arm also is matched exactly in real time game play.
