NintendoWorldReport has published a new preview for Mario Party: Island Tour based on a recent press demo. You can find details rounded up below.
General
– Four mini-games playable in the press demo
– Everyone travels individually (ditches group travel from Mario Party 9)
– Banzai Bill board: climb up a mountain
– Roll the die and you can then risk making progress on the board or hide out in cave
– Whenever somebody rolls a Banzai Bill, it fires across one of the board’s horizontal ledges, knocking back everybody in its path
– Jiggle the die around on the touch screen and fling it onto the top screen to roll
Buzz a Fuzzy
– 4 players compete to fire arrows at a series of Fuzzies slowly moving around
– All players aim in the same area
– If you wait too long, another player could have stolen your Fuzzy chain
– Earn a point for each Fuzzy you hit
– 3 rounds where each players fires one arrow
– Hold the system up and move it to aim
– Fire by pulling back on the Circle Pad and then let go to fire
Slip Not
– Control your character while riding a raft down a winding, watery path
– Uses the 3DS gyroscope as you turn like a steering wheel
Ka-Goomba
– Uses the AR Cards
– First shoot at augmented-reality Goombas as they appear near the card
– Aim by moving the 3DS
– Regular Goombas are worth 1 point, Gold Goombas are worth 3
– Boss fight has you fighting a Whomp
– Earn last minute points by being the first to hit the Whomp’s weak spot on its back
Choicest Voice
– Uses the 3DS mic
– A random Mario character is selected and a clip of their voice plays
– Need to match the voice as closely as possible
– Judges within the game choose the best match
– The game only rates by the amplitude envelope
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PES 2014 (World Soccer Winning Eleven 2014) 3DS isn’t coming out overseas, but Konami is releasing the game in Japan. Here’s a look a the game’s boxart:
Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag features a pirate setting, but that doesn’t mean it’ll fall to the kind of clichés you’d expect from such a game. Ubisoft looked to create a fairly authentic experience, so you won’t be seeing things like talking parrots. You won’t be walking the plank either.
Game director Ashraf Ismail told DigitalSpy that the team was keen to avoid pirate clichés during the development of Black Flag.
He said:
“We don’t have talking parrots, we don’t have walking the plank – walking the planks didn’t even exist at that time. We did take a few liberties from a gaming perspective. We have treasure maps, for example, which pirates didn’t have, but this is more of a gameplay mechanic. Generally speaking we really avoided cliches. Even the way pirates spoke, it wasn’t as cliche as we imagine today. We have amazing voice acting in this game, and the actors did a phenomenal job.”
Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition, announced earlier today, will not be available on Wii U. NetherRealm Studios creative director Ed Boon has confirmed that the re-release isn’t planned for the console.
A tweet from Boon reads:
RT @KyleJastrick @noobde No Wii U version of Ultimate? EB: No Wii-U version.
— Ed Boon (@noobde) October 7, 2013
RT @Omegaduelflame @noobde ..the original game came out on Wii u so this should too make it happen ed EB: Its not as simple as that.
— Ed Boon (@noobde) October 7, 2013
Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition is coming to almost every major platform – PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PS Vita, Xbox 360, and PC. It’s unfortunate to see Wii U being left out of the mix.
The latest Wii U/3DS-specific UK software sales are as follows:
Wii U
1. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD – Nintendo
2. Nintendo Land – Nintendo
3. Rayman Legends – Ubisoft
4. New Super Mario Bros. U – Nintendo
5. New Super Luigi U – Nintendo
6. Disney Infinity – Disney Interactive
7. Pikmin 3 – Nintendo
8. Just Dance 2014 – Ubisoft
9. ZombiU – Ubisoft
10. LEGO City: Undercover – Nintendo
3DS
1. Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Nintendo
2. Luigi’s Mansion 2 – Nintendo
3. LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins – Nintendo
4. Mario Kart 7 – Nintendo
5. Mario & Luigi: Dream Team – Nintendo
6. New Super Mario Bros. 2 – Nintendo
7. FIFA 14 – EA
8. Super Mario 3D Land – Nintendo
9. Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D – Nintendo
10. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity – Nintendo
Source: Chart-Track
