Nintendo Voice Chat podcast summary

EA event

- Some games are embargoed like Need for Speed
- Someone else has the exclusive on that game
- Bozon says Need for Speed: Nitro is more like Need for Speed: Nicetro (It’s good)
- Matt was pleasantly surprised but can’t talk about it
- Played Grand Slam Tennis with Wii MotionPlus, updated Tiger build with disc golf, MySims

MySims Racing

- EA said they didn’t want to take a game like Mario Kart with MySims Racing, but that’s exactly what they did
- Played pretty well but it did play like Mario Kart
- No online
- Can customize MySims characters but can’t import previous characters
- Framerate a little troublesome
- If you’re a MySims fan and like Mario Kart game you’ll enjoy it
- Can save characters you create onto Wiimote, bring it to a friend’s house

MySims Agents

- It’s alright
- Adventure game mixed with MySims
- No real building aspects
- Add different furniture in levels
- More like a point and click adventure

Grand Slam Tennis

- Still really fun
- Robust online mode
- Can play a bunch of games through local multiplayer
- Bozon played with MotionPlus, it was what he expected – it works
- Only real turnoff for Bozon is that it’s not exactly the style of tennis game he likes
- Shouldn’t expect complete 1:1 but it’s good enough, feels really good

Tiger Woods

- Graphics have seen slight improvement
- New courses, new players, new online modes
- Disc golf
- Online modes extension of what was in Tiger 09
- Can play daily/weekly matches
- Also can play against pros – play against leaderboard scores with only 15 minute delay
- Disc golf mode is really good
- Pick up disc, pivot wrist, pull back arm and release
- Power, angle, wind all factored in – could be game in itself
- Calibration basically invisible

Dead Space

- Under embargo
- Craig has already played it, his thoughts were positive
- Craig had thought the game looked really good for a Wii title
- One of the prettiest, cinematic games for Wii
- Bozon excited for it
- Matt was really impressed, lightgun shooter to beat on Wii
- Done an amazing job with the camera

Multiplayer in The Conduit

- Everything worked great
- Craig isn’t very good at FPS games
- Was picking up infrared from other TVs so it was messing with his controls
- Multiplayer still really good
- Arenas are of good size
- Plenty of hallways to hide in
- Framerate chugged a bit in places but not too much
- A little big of lag, but compensated for it pretty well
- Craig likes the Bounty Hunter mode – thinks it’s a neat idea
- Can chat in lobby but need friend codes
- Should have a final version soon

Boom Blox Bash Party

- A lot like the first game
- Extension of the original
- Many more stages, level editor is better
- All about online community this time
- Will have a lot of replay value
- Won’t be offering more toolsets but maybe for the next game

Reader questions

- DSi has 4 times the memory and twice the processing power so if devs program for it, you can get games that look better than regular DS stuff
- Matt last heard that Wii Sports Resort will have 8 games
- Not too many more big titles at E3 that we don’t know of that will support MotionPlus
- Sometimes can play Nintendo games early before Nintendo announces them, but it’s rare…Happening tomorrow though
- Trying to finish Cave Story as fast as possible without sacrificing quality
- The next Nintendo peripheral is the pedometer for Personal Trainer: Walking
- NPC! Metroid Prime/Prime 2 will probably be announced at E3, otherwise will be quietly announced
- Haven’t heard a whole lot about major things about E3 from Nintendo, do know what High Voltage is up to
- Boom Blox Bash Party worth it if you have the original
- Games don’t look as good as Mario Galaxy because developers are lazy or incompetent, not all dev teams are good as Nintendo, etc.
- Excite Trucks still worth a rent if you have Excitebots
- Matt personally thinks there will be a Wii version of Modern Warefare 2, Bozon thinks probably

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