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101-in-1 Party Megamix Wii
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A Boy and His Blob Wii
Alien Syndrome Wii
All Star Cheerleader Wii
All Star Cheerleader 2 Wii
Animal Crossing: Let's Go To the City Wii
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Babysitting Party Wii
Banyard Wii
Baroque Wii
Big Beach Sports Wii
Big Brain Academy Wii
Big Family Games Wii
Big League Sports Wii
Block Party Wii
Blogging Animal Crossing: Let's go to the City Wii
Blogging My Fitness Coach Wii
Bolt Wii
Boogie: Superstar Wii
Boom Blox Wii
Boom Blox Bash Party Wii
Build A Bear Workshop: A Friend Fur All Seasons Wii
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Reflex Wii
Call of Duty: World at War Wii
Carnival Games Wii
Carnival Games: Mini Golf Wii
Cars Wii
Cars Race-o-rama Wii
Celebrity Sports Showdown Wii
Cooking Mama Wii
Cooking Mama 2 Wii
Coraline Wii
Cosmic Family Wii
Crazy Mini Golf Wii
Cursed Mountain Wii
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Dance Party Club Hits Wii
Dance Party Pop Hits Wii
Dead Space: Extraction Wii
Deadly Creatures Wii
Dewy's Adventure Wii
Disaster: Day of Crisis Wii
Disney: Think Fast Wii
Diva Girls Divas on Ice Wii
Dog Island Wii
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat Wii
Dora the Explorer Dora Saves the Snow Princess Wii
Dora the Explorer: Dora Saves the Snow Princess Wii
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EA Sports Active Wii
EA Sports Active Month One Wii
EA Sports Active More Workouts Wii
EA's Playground Wii
Eledees Wii
Endless Ocean / Forever Blue Wii
Endless Ocean 2 Wii
Endless Ocean 2: Adventures of the Deep Wii
Everybody Votes Channel Wii
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FIFA 09 Wii
FIFA 09 Wii
Facebreaker Wii
Family Games Night Wii
Family Party Wii
Family Ski Wii
Family Ski / We Ski Wii
Family Ski and Snowboard Wii
Family Trainer Wii
Final Fantasy Echoes of Time Wii
Formula 1 2009 Wii
Fritz Chess Wii
Fun Fair Party Wii
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George of the Jungle Wii
Girls Life Sleepover Party Wii
Go, Diego, Go! Safari Rescue Wii
Godfather Wii
Gottlieb Pinball Wii
Grand Slam Tennis Wii
Guinness World Records Wii
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High School Musical 3: Dance! Wii
Horrible Histories Ruthless Romans Wii
House of the Dead Overkill Wii
Hysteria Hospital Emergency Ward Wii
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Ice Age 3 Dawn of the Dinosars Wii
Indiana Jones Staff of Kings Wii
Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings Wii
It's My Birthday Wii
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Jambo Safari Wii
Jelly Belly: Ballistic Beans Wii
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King of Clubs Wii
King of Fighters Wii
Klonoa Wii
Kung Fu Panda Wii
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LEGO Indiana Jones 2 Wii
LEGO: Batman Wii
Let's Tap Wii
Little League World Series Baseball Wii
Little League World Series Baseball 2009 Wii
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Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa Wii
Madden 07 Wii
Madden 08 Wii
Madden 09 Wii
Madworld Wii
Mario Charged Football Wii
Mario Galaxy Wii
Mario Galaxy 2 Wii
Mario Kart Wii
Mario and Sonic at the Olympics Wii
Mario and Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games Wii
Medal of Honour Wii
Mercury Revolution Wii
Metal Slug Anthology Wii
Metroid Prime 3 Corruption Wii
Metroid Prime Trilogy Wii
Minon: Everyday Hero Wii
Monkey Mischief Wii
Monopoly Wii
More Game Party Wii
Movie Studios Party Wii
Muramasa: The Demon Blade Wii
Mushroom Men the Spore Wars Wii
My Fitness Coach Wii
My Fitness Coach: Cardio Workout Wii
My Sims Wii
My Sims: Kingdoms Wii
MySims Party Wii
MySims Racing Wii
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NBA 09 Wii
NBA 2K 10 Wii
Narnia: Prince Caspian Wii
Naruto Shippudem Ultimate Ninja 4 Wii
Need For Speed Carbon Wii
Need for Speed Nitro Wii
Need for Speed Pro Street Wii
Nerf-n-strike Wii
New Super Mario Brothers Wii
New Super Mario Brothers Wii Wii
Nights: Into Dreams Wii
Ninja Captains Wii
Nutrition Matters Wii
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Okami Wii
Opoona Wii
Order Up Wii
Overlord: Dark Legend Wii
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PES 08 Wii
PES 2010 Wii
Paper Mario Wii
Peppa Pig: The Game Wii
Petz Catz 2 Wii
Petz Dogz 2 Wii
Pikmin 2 Wii
Pirates Hunt Wii
Pirates Vs Ninjas Dodgeball Wii
Pitfall The Big Adventure Wii
Planet Rescue: Wildlife Vet Wii
Pokemon: Revolution Wii
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Rabbids Go Home Wii
Radio Helicopter Wii
Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party Wii
Ready Steady Cook Wii
Remington's Great American Bird Hunt Wii
Resident Evil 4 Wii
Resident Evil Darkside Chronicles Wii
Resident Evil The Darkside Chronicles Wii
Resident Evil Zero Wii
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SNK Arcade Classics Volume 1 Wii
Sam and Max: Season One Wii
Samba de Amigo Wii
Samurai Shodown Anthology Wii
Scene It? Bright Lights! Big Screen! Wii
Shaun White's Snowboarding Wii
Shaun White's Snowboarding World Stage Wii
Shrek's Carnival Craze Wii
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories Wii
Sim Animals Wii
Sim Animals Africa Wii
Sim City: Creator Wii
Sims 2: Pets Wii
Skate It Wii
Smarty Pants Wii
Space Camp Wii
Space Chimps Wii
Spectrobes Origins Wii
Spiderman 3 Wii
Sponge Bob Square Pants Wii
Sports Island Wii
Sports Party Wii
Story Hour Adventures Wii
Story Hour Fairy Tales Wii
Super Fruit Fall Wii
Super Mario Galaxy Wii
Super Smash Brothers Brawl Wii
Super Smash Brothers Brawl Part 1 Wii
Super Smash Brothers Brawl Part 2 Wii
Super Swing Golf Wii
Super Swing Golf: Season 2 / PangYa Golf 2 Wii
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TV Show King Party Wii
Table Football Wii
Tales Of Symphonia: Dawn of a New Age Wii
Tatsunoko vs Capcom Controller Wii
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars Wii
Tetris Party Wii
The Biggest Loser Wii
The Conduit Wii
The Destiny of Zorro Wii
The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon Wii
The Munchables Wii
The Simpsons Game Wii
Tiger Woods 07 Wii
Tiger Woods 08 Wii
Tiger Woods 09 Wii
Tiger Woods 09 All Play Wii
Tiger Woods 09 All Play Wii
Tiger Woods 10 Wii
Twin Strike Operation Thunder Wii
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Ultimate Band Wii
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Vertigo Wii
Virtua Tennis 2009 Wii
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Wario Land: The Shake Dimension Wii
WarioWare: Smooth Moves Wii
We Cheer Wii
We Love Golf Wii
We Rock Drum King Wii
We Sing Wii
Wheelspin Wii
Wii-Fit Wii
Wii-Fit Plus Wii
Wii-Fit Plus Solus Wii
Wii-Music Wii
Wii-Play Wii
Wii-Sports Wii
Wii-Sports Resort Wii
Wii-Sports Resort Archery Wii
Wii-Sports Resort Frisbee Wii
Wii-Sports Resort Golf Wii
Wii-Sports Resort Table Tennis Wii
World Championship Sports Wii
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Yoga Wii
Your Shape Wii
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Zach and Wiki Wii
Zelda: Twighlight Princess Wii
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de Blob Wii
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jOG Wii
The Wii is Nintendo's latest console, following up (in reverse order) the Gamecube, N64, SNES and NES. Unlike other manufacturers like Sony and Microsoft, with the Wii Nintendo wanted to move away from chasing the latest technology and graphics. Their focus is on family friendly controls and gameplay.
The Wii console is unique because of its controller shaped like a TV remote and commonly called a Wii-mote. This, together with the Nun-chuck secondary joystick provides control through gestures, pointing and buttons. Wii Games can be played with gesture alone, like the excellent Wii-Sports bowling, tennis, golf and boxing - each of which were played with the Wii-mote mimicking the real life motion.
Continuing their focus on gameplay rather than horsepower, Nintendo are developing the Wii with new peripherals. Wii-Fit provided a balance board controller that enabled players to partake in various fitness, skill and strength balance games. They look to answer criticisms of the Wii-mote's limited response to gestures by releasing the Motion Plus add on block that enables games to match real world movement in true one-to-one fashion.
The Wii is weakest in the graphics and sound department, which are more akin to the Gamecube than the PS3 and 360. It also suffers from a lack of development of its online features. There is no standard online platform for developers to use, so where games provide these they tend to be hit and miss. This is compounded by the Wii's lack of large storage device. Internal memory and external SD Cards enable players to download games and store save files but are quite slow and limited in capacity.
Most of these negatives are not an issue with Nintendo's own games (such as Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime, The Legend of Zelda: Twightlight Princess or Mario Sluggers) as they have investment to ensure the quality of experience. Third party games though, although strong examples exist (Boom Blox, Guinness World Records or Family Ski), are often lower quality and suffer from being ported from other platforms.
The Wii's biggest success, setting aside sales, is its ability to provide enjoyable experiences that cater for families and casual players who want to share some playtime in the same location. The low barrier to entry from the controller combines with the anyone can play gaming ethic to introduce a new audience to the fun of video gaming.
Here are the latest Wii games we have been playing:
Call Of Duty Modern Warfare comes to the Wii with a Reflex moniker. Once you adjust to the Wii-mote controls there beats a great game. But, as usual, I'm all about the multiplayer, and for Call Of Duty Modern Warfare Reflex this comes in both online and campaign modes.
LucasArts adventuring proves again its had its hay day - Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle and Grim Fandango this is not.
Remington's Great American Bird Hunt stands as a relic, a living fossil but on these terms it's almost lovable. It could perhaps be best compared to a Coelacanth in terms of where it stands in the evolution of light gun gaming. It seems to have ignored the advancements made in the genre by series such as Point Blank and Time Crisis, offering no discernable improvements over twenty year old titles.
Space Camp for the Wii tries to squeeze an outsized shoe into a tiny Wii-shaped slipper. The result is brutal mismatch between a point and click adventure and a bunch of mini-games. In game development terms this project was always going to struggle beyond what I imagine was committee led pre-dev meetings. Even for those Space Camp fans in the house this is a title best avoided and the money spent on a proper NASA DVD.
The second Lego Indiana Wii game is out now, but is the original still worth picking up too?
Resident Evil The Darkside Chronicles for Wii is a straightforward shooter that slickly revisits some of the series' highpoints, but which lacks the narrative depth of a core Resident Evil game.
Endless Ocean 2: Adventures of the Deep brings a gentle and calming underwater adventure to the living room that, in spite of the Wii's awkward motion controls, succeeds in transporting you to a serene world.
Girls Life Sleepover Party Wii offers a novel game around which to theme a birthday party - but probably for younger girls rather than those pictured here.
We Cheer turns Wii-mote flailing into an artform with genuine exercise value. Not as precise a game as All Star Cheerleader, and because of this a lot more challenging. Either way though, there is still fun and exercise a plenty here.
Formula 1 2009 on the Wii captures the feel and excitement of a Grand Prix weekend and, despite being a bit tricky to steer, gives a real sensation of being there. A must for the motor racing fans among us!
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