Warning: may cause racing game fans to immediately pre-order
Faithful, set down your treatise on why RPGs are the only genre for which you have any interest and take heed! For a limited time, and in advance of the game’s release on March 17th, Wii™ owners connected to Nintendo Channel can play sample portions of TrackMania DS, the upcoming high-flying, fast-paced racing game, by downloading the demo directly to their Nintendo DS systems.
Only available for a limited time, this small taste of what the full package offers is sure to satisfy racing fans looking for something with unique style and nearly unlimited replay. Yes, we know it’s not an RPG, but you don’t have to be a racing fan to enjoy the high speed excitement of TrackMania!
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (DS) – 94%
MadWorld (Wii) – 85%
Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 (Wii) – 93%
Sonic and The Black Knight (Wii) – 78%
Don King Boxing (Wii) – 85%
New Play Control! Mario Power Tennis (Wii) – 77%
Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure (DS) – 74%
Blue Dragon Plus (DS) – 76%
Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayer (Wii) – 71%
Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride (DS) – 90%
SNK Arcade Classics Volume 1 (DS) – 84%
Moto Racer (DS) – 79%
Broken Sword (DS) – 86%
Job Island (Wii) – 78%
Big Bang Mini (DS) – 84%
Thanks to joclo for the news tip.
– 1 EMPIRE: TOTAL WAR PC SEGA SEGA
1 2 KILLZONE 2 PS3 SONY COMPUTER ENT. SONY COMPUTER ENT.
3 3 WII FIT WII NINTENDO NINTENDO
2 4 HALO WARS XB360 MICROSOFT MICROSOFT
5 5 PROFESSOR LAYTON AND THE CURIOUS VILLAGE DS NINTENDO NINTENDO
– 6 TOM CLANCY’S H.A.W.X. XB360 UBISOFT UBISOFT
– 7 TOM CLANCY’S H.A.W.X. PS3 UBISOFT UBISOFT
8 8 WII PLAY WII NINTENDO NINTENDO
7 9 MARIO KART WII WII NINTENDO NINTENDO
6 10 STREET FIGHTER IV
A few new Spore: Hero details have been released:
– Built from the ground up
– Has the PC game’s full creature editor + animation system
– Have direct control of the lifeform you create
– Adding parts to limeform adds new motion maneuvers (customized to parts)
– Won’t connect to PC version
– There is an expansive evolution-based experience
– “Your planet that you’ve lived on has had a catastrophic event and you’re essentially plummeting to a new planet on the tail of a meteor. You arrive there and you start encountering new creatures. This is a new planet that you’ve got to make as your own. So you start in a series of quests and adventures in a kind of open world that you can take at your own pace. You start encountering other creatures and can interact with them in either combat or social [ways], but you can also do things on their behalf.”
– Some quests help creature evolve
– In Evolutionary Quests, creature has to meet needs of other species, guide those beast’s evolution
– Game encourages exploration
– Spore: Heroes is playful
– MotionPlus under consideration
WiiWare
Gradius Rebirth – 174 blocks
VC
Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars – 21 blocks
This information comes from the latest edition of EDGE:
100 – R4:? ?Ridge Racer Type? ?4
99 – Far Cry
98 – Star Fox 64
97 – Resident Evil
96 – The Legend of Zelda:? ?Twilight Princess
95 – Football Manager? ?2009
94 – Space Giraffe
93 – The Sims 2
92 – Animal Crossing:? ?City Folk
91 – Splinter Cell:? ?Chaos Theory
90 – Braid
Family Friendly Title Transforms City Streets into Competitive Urban Playgrounds This Fall
EDISON, N.J., March 9, 2009 – Lace up your sneakers and get ready to hit the pavement as Majesco Entertainment Company (NASDAQ: COOL), an innovative provider of video games for the mass market, announces Go Play City Sports for Wii™. The latest title in Majesco’s recently announced Go Play line of motion-based video games for the whole family, Go Play City Sports recreates the experience of playing sports in a vast urban playground where manhole covers double as home plate. The all-new sports compilation allows players to compete against the best neighborhood athletes in six classic games, including stickball, kickball, handball, rooftop hockey, shootout soccer and jump rope.
Go Play City Sports takes full advantage of the Wii’s capabilities in order to bring these timeless games from the streets to the living room. Players use the intuitive movements of the Wii Remote™ to rule the courts and stake their claim as king of the block. However, just like on the real street, they must dodge obstacles like manhole covers, fire hydrants and parked cars as they try to earn trophies and unlock items such as new courts and equipment. The game supports up to four players in both head-to-head or team-based games, while single player mode allows gamers to fully explore the expansive urban environment. With fully customizable characters and Wii Balance Board™ support, Go Play City Sports is a fun, competitive game for players both young and old!
Resident Evil 5 – 7
Empire: Total War – 9
Shellshock 2: Blood Trails – 2
Afro Samurai – 5
Stormrise – 4
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II – 7
50 Cent: Blood on the Sand – 7
Tom Clancy’s HAWX – 6
Time Hollow – 6
Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride – 8
Resistance Retribution – 6
Cryostasis – 6
Puzzle Quest: Galactrix – 7
Henry Hatsworth in The Puzzling Adventure – 8
New Series Brings Nintendo GameCube Favorites to Wii with Enhanced Motion Controls
REDMOND, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Unique motion-sensing controls have already helped to make Wii™ the nation’s top-selling video game console. With today’s launch of the New Play Control! series from Nintendo, Wii owners can use those same fun, intuitive controls to discover – or rediscover – some of the coolest and most well-received games made famous on the Nintendo GameCube™ system, each updated with a new wireless, active control scheme and a widescreen presentation.
New Play Control! Pikmin™ and New Play Control! Mario Power Tennis™ are the first two games in this new series, taking all the action and imagination of the originals and giving them a new control scheme. Not only do both new games make use of Nintendo’s simple-to-use Wii Remote™ controller, but they’re also presented for the first time ever in an eye-pleasing 16:9 widescreen format.
