Zach writes: 'The Nintendo Wii was touted as THE family console to have when it originally released in late 2006. A steady stream of family-friendly titles came out of the first-party pipeline, but it seemed like most people became bored with their Wii once they had spent a decent amount of time with Wii Sports.'.
In this entry:
Super Smash Bros Brawl for $43 shipped.
Nights: Journey of Dreams $29.
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption $29.
Pinball Hall of Fame $19.
For $30 you can pick up, tax free and with free shipping:
Bomberman Land
Endless Ocean
Ghost Squad
Godfather: Blackhand Edition
House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return
My Word Coach
Namco Museum Remix
Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition
Sega Bass Fishing
Sonic and the Secet Rings
SSX Blur
Super Monkeyball Banana Blitz
Zack and Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure
For only $20, copies of these games can be found just about anywhere:
Alien Syndrome
Dewy's Adventure
Elebits
Escape From Bug Island
Furu Furu Park
Mercury Meltdown Revolution
Octomania
Red Steel
Wii Zapper with Link's Crossbow Training
Associated Press - Lou Kesten, December 26, 2007:
Worst of 2007:
1. Manhunt 2
2. Vampire Rain
3. Deal or No Deal
4. Lair
5. Escape from Bug Island!
Turkey Shoot:
• Most disappointing: Halo 3 (single-player), Assassin's Creed, Blue Dragon, Heavenly Sword
• Enough already: The Tony Hawk series, World Wrestling Entertainment games, Final Fantasy remakes
• Worst feud: Guitar Hero vs. Rock Band
• Worst flaw in a great game: The inventory management system in Mass Effect
• Worst voice acting: Elijah Wood, Gary Oldman and Billy West in The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night
• Worst cross-promotion: Playboy and Eidos'"Cyber Search" for Kane & Lynch: Dead Men (pictured)
• Most baffling: The Nintendo Wii, still hard to find more than a year after its debut.
Alright looks like the other is getting dup'ed out so I'll just copy and paste my comment on here :)
Well I liked most of those games on the list but I can understand were they are coming from. Heavenly Sword was an amazing game that not to many liked. Blue Dragon was a fun RPG with standard everthing with a few tweaks that didn't sell out. AC sold a million and yet most say it was repetative and no replay value. Halo 3 just had to much hype. I totally agree with enough of Tony Hawk (which is why I bought stake ^^), and Escape from Bug Island who didn't know that game would blow?
No fanboy writter seeing that they pretty much covered everything.
There were areas that could be improved in there, but it didn't deserve the treatment that it got.
I can see where their coming from with AC. I stopped playing it when my next new game came out and have not gone back yet.
"Worst cross-promotion: Playboy and Eidos'"Cyber Search" for Kane & Lynch: Dead Men (pictured)" I agree. When I saw that picture of the hooker on the Kane & lynch poster, I knew it will be a crappy game.
MaximusPrime -by your avatar i can come to the Point that your a SonyFanboy thats why Only Heavenly sword seems misplaced to you. even tho i like the game
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WWE games Sale A lot of copies for what im aware of.
I can recall that when Heavenly Sword commercial was shown, it says "actual game footage".
Then Halo 3 commercial followed and it says "not actual footage" I laughed.
I actually thought Heavenly sword video is just cut-scene but no it was in the actual gameplay. I even played it myself.
In its first year, the Wii has changed the video game landscape. It's brought people in who never thought they would care about video games. New methods of interacting with onscreen events have been invented. The image of the video game has started swinging away from the nerd-basement stereotype and toward a more family-friendly, even trendy experience.
But the Wii is still a game console, and it can't be completely different from every other console. It's a universal rule that all video game systems must be populated by a bunch of really terrible games, and the Wii has certainly done an admirable job of attracting cheaply-made, ill-conceived, untested, embarrassing garbage. It's really a mark of a system's popularity that so many publishers have come running with their shovels. It's a mark of the Wii's strength as a platform, as well, that it has managed to survive despite the existence of some of these games.
wether its a Gamecube 2.0 or a gamecube 1.5, its irrelevant to the quality of the games.
Are you saying: because of the hardware, Xbox, Ps2, and gamecube never had any good games?
its up to the developers, its plain and simple, GB ~ NDS are nothing compared to home console, but damn they have great games.
There only 4 Wii games that I want, all of the other games are REALLY weak.
Most of the Wii's first year was full of horrible games. There have been some standouts, though. I'm a big fan of Wii Sports, Trauma Center, Metroid Prime and Super Mario Galaxy.
But all of them are First Party. Like most people said, this is Gamecube all over again, Third Party support is weak and people are going to be pissed playing all the same titles for the next four years like Mario Strikers, Mario Baseball, Mario Laundry, Mario Accountancy, Mario Janitor, Link's Crossbow Training, Zelda Golf, etc.
I'm still expecting that the worse has yet to come.
Jump Beyond.
