Wii is about having fun!
I’m not dismissing these first person shooters, but playing with the Wii mote and Nunchuck didn’t make the experience any more immersive or better than playing an fps on any other console (although I did enjoy the effect of the speaker on the Wii-mote making clicking noises whenever you re-loaded). But hey, the Wii has been marketed as being all about fun, changing the way we play games and Nintendo have certainly delivered on that front. The Wii-mote and Nunchuck controllers truly shine in games such as Rayman Raving Rabbids, Trauma Centre, Wii Sports and Zelda where the action is more interactive, simpler and methodical, but I’m going to need far more time playing the action titles before I'm convinced that the controllers are up to the job.
I’ve seen pictures and specs of Wii dozens of times, but for some reason I didn’t expect it to be so small. It measures 8.5 inches long, 6 inches wide and less than 2 inches thick (roughly the size of 3 DVD cases stacked on top of each other) and with my aesthetic eye I couldn’t help thinking that it would look great sitting next to my Xbox 360. By the end of the day, and after playing numerous Wii games, this opinion was still at the forefront of my mind, not just because Wii and Xbox 360 look like a match made in heaven, but because both offer a totally different experience. Wii is all about having fun, interacting with games and other people and will be fantastic for some of the great Nintendo titles such as Zelda: Twilight Princess, but for the more hardcore games I’d still boot up my Xbox 360 to play the likes of Call of Duty 3 until I spend a few months adapting to the massive change; and at this stage I'm not sure that I want to change the way I play first person shooters in such a dramatic way.
Wii is a great console, but I'm already convinced that when launch day comes I'm not going to be picking up any of the all-out action titles, but I can't wait to get my hands on the likes of Super Mario Galaxy, Zelda, Trauma Centre, Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz and Rayman Raving Rabbids. Wii is going to be all about fun with a capital 'F'!
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Click for larger imageHands-on with Rayman Raving Rabbids
Hands-on with Wii Sports
