Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 3:16 pm
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.
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.