The Wii
Finally, I got hold of a Wii.
I love it. I had more original thought about the state of videogaming on the day I got it than I have for a year. The Wii is a fantastic machine and I cannot wait for it’s classic games to be released over the next two years.
But everyone loves the Wii, so I’ll post the negative comment I have on it as you’ve already heard what’s great about it a hundred times.
Wii Sports does not have a very good idea of what the WiiMote is doing. Both Tennis and Baseball only really care about you moving it, and Golf shows that it doesn’t have a great idea of what the ‘mote is doing. Having developed a bit for the Wiimote myself, I know that future titles will have a much better idea of what the user is actually doing with the ‘mote, but I am slightly dissapointed with how little Wii Sports actually does with the remote.
Having said all that, Sports is fantastic for non-gamers and drunken sessions, and is still a perfectly valid Game Of The Year. Here’s waiting for the first “proper” tennis implementation.
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4 Responses to “The Wii”
§ February 6th, 2007 at 11:45 pm
I second all that. I think one of the most interesting things about the Wii is that I can’t remember a time (I’m sure someone will correct me) when a hugely graphically-inferior console was competing successfully with other platforms using only its brand, price and controller. What I hope that means is that a massive load of mental, imaginative, graphically unusual games come out on the Wii while we’ll get some real envelope-pushing stuff on other platforms.
§ February 7th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
“a perfectly valid Game Of The Year”
in my opinion, no.
GOOD games should have more depth. Lots of things to learn, longer life.
And yes, that baseball game sucks. You can just twist the wiimote like you would open a bottle. Not very funny to play it that way. Well, little kids liek it of course, but not me. I’m more HC.
§ February 8th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
Yeah, but it’s a GOTY candidate for making so many non-gamers enjoy it so much.
§ February 1st, 2012 at 4:40 am
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