The ones that spring to mind - and it ain't all of them - are the fishing which would be great for a four year old, Table Tennis which is great, laser hockey which has staying power if two players 'get' it, a knitted cow racing game which can get quite competetive and a variation on the tank games from Atari 2600 Combat which does alas requiretwo nunchuks for two player, which is an extra fifteen quid you'll only otherwise see the benefit of on Wii Sports boxing and Mario Strikers Charged Football otherwise. Which leads me to my closing point. The Wii Play games might be simple but simple titles with the gameplay these listed few have would have us glued to screens for hours having great fun on the 2600, even if the graphics and controllers were worse in those days. A good time is a good time whatever era you are in though, and Wii play is worth the aforementioned fiver for that reason alone.Samus wrote:2 player Table Tennis on Wii Play is a wonderful test of skill, nerves and reaction, everybody spend some time with it if you haven't already, excellent fun. Totally different from the single player experience where you can't affect the direction of the shots.Tepic wrote:That was the plan. The 4 year old is getting excited at the videos of the fishing game!If you can stretch to a second remote with Wii Play I'd recommend doing so
There's a couple of 'lightgun' games as well, and seeing as all such games are fundementally identical, they'll do for now, progeress in Wii Play being sent as mesages to your Wii after each session. Miis feature, too. Good to be using them in games, which doesn't always happen. I can see that lightgun style games will be getting rather a good look in, maybe becoming a major shooter genre because of the Wii. Umbrella Chronicles will set a standard, lapped up by those left salivating by the abortive third person efforts we've seen thus far. Then this indie developers' initiative Nintendo have begun will surely, surely see shooting gallery games of an Operation Wolf/Thunderbolt and Point Blank style return, there'll surely be a game where the gun looks like a Wiimote. And what utterly new ideas will be dreamt up in a lightgun style?
One wonders if a psychadelic, beastie infested, fixed viewpoint remote-pointing shooter with interesting combos and gameplay/tactic modifiers might come about as a result of this? Llamasoft made a Gridrunner that you control with a stylus. Moving the Remote in a circle would make a decent Tempest spinner and by that rationale the Wii controllers must clearly be asking for a good hard Mintering.
The Wii has been slow to truly realise its potential. Most Wii owners love theirs and simply wish they had more A, B and even C rank titles but the PS2 had plenty of good games coming out for it every year and it had a similarly successful time and a similarly shite-heavy lineup throughout its career, which is stil going. But maybe Nintendo have played an ace. They knew the novelty, class and form factor would carry the machine six months and the small niche of excellent or simply unique titles would extend that initial run to 12 and there's enough shit hot stuff due before 2008 to make this irrellevant anyway. And then even the worse developers will be up to speed, the Heatseekers and WWII FPSes of next year will look and control much better for sure.
I've a few games for mine, there's a couple more I want and one or two due in the late summer and autumn. I'm barely halfway thorugh Zelda, and my Mario Strikers/Excite Truck skills need honing which I'm glad to do. Mrs. Goatboy keeps beating my high scores on Wii Play/Sports and I'll have to buy her her own Wii when Animal Crossing comes out, you should have seen me try to get on my Gamecube two years ago! Then there's Red Steel to play through and Wario Ware for when mates are over. Plus the Virtual Console, which is a new game every three weeks thing for me I think and that's plenty of gaming. What quality drought?
Also the Wii is my 'comfy' browser for when I'm surfing not typing and there's more channels on the way. Then it's Xmas and the games written for a system people have actually got will be arriving in numbers. Rock on
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