Wii will rock you.

#1

i got my Wii yesterday. no waiting out in the cold. just the hook-up.

So, I got my wii sports bundle with a warrantee, three games now (two games later), and an extra controller for 363 dollars.

250 wii
50 warantee
40 wii-remote
20 nunchuck
50 Rayman Raving Rabbids
50 Elebits
50 Pangya Super Swing Golf

Basically, I got the three games free now, and two more in the future. the hook-up is good...

Here'e the low-down. This game is not as cheap as it seems. You only get 480i/480p out the box. The 780 HD component cables are not available yet, and will cost 50 bucks. Thus, for the get-go 250 becomes 300 for same resolution options you get with a 360 (resolution compliance varies according to your TV on PS3). also, you pay another 20 for the virtual controller, but get a gamecube controller instead, because Gamecube games work on the system, and getting five or so isn't a bad idea. Wii titles are pretty physical.

Online is not available yet, and one hour with this console, and you will know the game bundle they gave you DEMANDS another controller. So, that's 40 for the wii-mote, and 20 for the nunchuck. This ramps your cost to 360. Also, you need a standard controller to play the virtual console NES and Super NES games, which is another 20 bucks, unless you have a gamecube. And you might want two, cause who wants to play super smash melee by themselves?

So, in reality, a full functioning control set for a player on a will will cost 80 bucks. With all peripheries and all, it is still cheaper, but not nearly AS CHEAPER as it seems.

GAMES

It comes with Wii Sports Bundle. This is Golf, Bowling, Baseball, Tennis, and Boxing. All games in the bundle have three modes. Training mode is a tutorial and skill building. Fitness builds endurance (and YOU WILL NEED IT FOR BOXING). Play mode allows for multiplayer, even 4 players with one wi-mote. We only played Golf, Bowling, and Boxing.

Golf - you can play 3 holes or nine, 3 courses is simple, and I played birdie on the first, bogie on the last, and still came in on par 12 for the course. My girl came in 9 over, cause she kept slicing when she was twisting the controller. I was suprised with the accuracy on the slice and the english on the put. This gave an oblique stretch that could easily be better than the poor treatment the love handles get with an ab machine. on game play alone this is a GREAT APP for would-be golfers.

Bowling - not as accurate, a swing your arm and let the trigger go technique my girl seemed to master. You can halt at the line, and I was trying to time my shots to release on spot. She lined everything up, and became a master of the single pin spare. I bowled 14 less than her, but got the only strike in the game. It was pretty bland if you ask me. Add some good music, and some booze.

Boxing - girls can't fight. nuff said. Keep you arms up in front of your face, stick and move. You can't windmill, it takes solid calculated jabs and hooks to register. She put me down once while I was trying to do an uppercut, (which I never figured out), but I got up and put her down by TKO. My arms felt it and them rounds are pretty long and there is no real break between. With some natural resistance, this was a bit better, and I was doing footwork, just because it is ingrained after my short stout with boxingames in my youth. Girl had a tendency to try and get to close to the TV, so I had to watch that. After boxing one full bout, I had to take my shirt off and get some shorts on. My shoulders feel a little tighter as well.

These games were high enough impact to let us know, tennis and baseball would break a sweat. The cool thing is every hour it would let us know, we should take a break, and go outside if we wanted. The odd part was it was 10 pm on the system.

------ OTHER GAMES

Elebits - damn complicated shooter/scavenger hunt hybrid where you use a gravity gun to capture little elebits to turn the power on. I played four levels and saw this is a clear sign Konami is still in their game. Music is great. Voice acting is horrid, and game play unlocks demand replayability. Rent it first, but know this is going to take a while. You have to make sure you don't break fragile things, obey time limits, and don't cause too much of a ruckus, because it stresses the elebits out and their power is reduced (thus lowering your score). Game physics are top notch. Can be frustrating though, like playing operation ramped up on a sixpack of redbull. I see it as a perfect training game for using the two controllers at the same time. Best thing about this game was we re-named one of our cats elebit, and chased it through the house with a water-gun. heh.

Rayman Raving Rabbids - first, I tossed a cow. then I ran through town to give a bunny an exploding box. then I danced to the song from Pulp fiction(?) to earn a complete bunny entourage, then I drew things to feed to a bunny before the candle lighting his dinner was snuffed. And that was just the first day in the Raving Rabbid Arena... Then I ... THIS IS ABSOLUTELY THE MOST FUN I HAVE HAD WITH ANY NEXT GENERATION CONSOLE. I LAUGHED UNTIL I HURT. This game is coming to other consoles than the wii, but will not be as fun on any other control system. If you buy one game for the wii ever, this is it. Seriously some of the minigames in this are worth their own game. Like dancing to a kanye-esque bunnified version of Naughty By Nature's "hip Hop Hooray." I thank god we don't have a webcam... but I beat any damn person who has a score of less than 1,000. This game is 11 out of 5 stars... no joke. It was so good we forgot we had another game to try.

Pangya - Super Swing golf - verdict is still out. But with Rabbids around, and more than 70 minigames to play on that, it might be a few days before I get to Super Swing. Pangya titles are always good though. So as long as they didn't flub the controller, action, this will be a hearty challenge and dynamic graphics.

BTW: the resolution on this is SPECTACULAR for the game play. The wii sports package looks a bit rough, but the release titles are damn impressive.

#2

raum--thanks for the review. Sounds like a pretty fun night at home.

#3

QUOTE(iMNO @ Dec 18 2006, 12:23 PM) raum--thanks for the review. Sounds like a pretty fun night at home.

No problem. All my friends up here want to play as well. So, when we usually have people over on the weekend and we sit around wondering what to do, it will prolly be pretty handy. /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

That being said, it is also great fun to blow a half hour or so away in the morning before I get to work, or golf at midnight.

Operationally, the system is SILENT, cool, smaller than some external USB drives, and it powers up and loads SUPER fast. Early next year, it will also have an opera browser availabel as an update, a complete calendar and message board for the household, a email message system for your wii-enabled friends. All this on top of the virtual console to download classic nintendo, Super NES, and N64 titles, and the hardware (from what I hear) plays well across the GameCube spectrum!

Lost Ghost · #4

Yeah I've played this at my friend's house and thought it was pretty cool....watched him play some zelda and it looked pretty sweet....

#5

Yeh, Zelda's supposedly the best game for the Wii right now..

#6

Yea, one of my friends has Zelda and plays it all the time. He really enjoys it. I personally like the sports games, but I'm an athlete so of course I'm gonna like those

#7

Thank you very much for the review Charlie. Although I am still not too keen on buying a new video game system (I'm still content with slogging Bowser in that clap-trap flying contraption with mechanical koopas in 16bit Super Mario World!), this does seem very interesting, and when the price comes down a bit and I got some spare cash, I might grab it.

Cheers mate.

Zelda-- I just found I had that damn music track on the ol' Windoze box the other day.... it was annoying (pure 1986) but funny. If I find it again I might upload it for the rappers here...

#8

I haven't played Zelda yet, and am still waiting to hear more. My wii is pretty much for minigames right now.

I started the training yesterday, to increase and plot my progress through wii sports.

I am doing much better at bowling, and I am staying par at golf. Tennis is swing left or swing right. Batting practice for baseball is all about timing. I made a avatar of Adolph Hitler to box into submission, and I knocked the crap out of him! /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

Me and the girl are 57% through Rayman Raving Rabbids, and lovin every minute of it! It really shows what the wii games can do for controls, and gets you into different kinds of gameplay modes.

Like skydiving into spirals to pass through smoke rings before the time runs out. This really shows you the potential for flying games. turn wii-mote like a key to bank left and right, and jut the nunchuck to slow up and bolt down. when's the last time you crawled all voer your couch, convinced if you standup just a bit more, you might be able to get around that corner?

...or the hilarious soccer minigame where you punt the bunny (pump left and right to run to build up speed ) and hit A when you get up to kick, then the wii-remote become an aiming device for the bunny projectile, and you have to get it past the goalie! The most soccer I ever played or watched, and one of the coolest sports game sessions yet.

The 70+ minigames (at least 40 types, some just get more difficult) in Rayman feel like, a huge demo of MANY things to come, all of which I am not looking forward to.

Personally, I am wondering about Prince of Persia for the Wii. Seems The Dark Throne is coming to the console as Rival Swords. Anyone play the Dark Throne for the PS2 or XBox?

But, to be honest, the thrill of cheering and CARING if you win a minigame is the best part. Never before has my girlfriend thrown her arms around me because she won a game like "whack a mole." Never before has she come home and begged me to play video games until three in the morning. And never has she ever wanted to play a first person shooter, until it involved bunnies and plungers...

#9

seems like a machine I should get then. /wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

#10

Yeah, I can see myself buying one of these maybe by the summer, Ra should like doing this shit, he keeps up this rampant energy tho, I'll be going to get one tomorrow, lol...Thanks for the review...

I remember paying a boxing game in Denver once, my first time in the altitude...Man, I was gassed by the second fight...And I've done real life boxing training...None of my friends even made it to the second...I may need a Wii to get my fat ass in shape...