A fun trivia game that's perfect for parties -- at a price point that isn't very smart.
It was just a matter of time before a publisher designed a trivia game for Wii's growing casual audience -- that demographic which doesn't have time for an epic adventure or for online frag-fests. Luckily, the first one, Smarty Pants from Electronic Arts, is good. Smarty Pants may be a one-trick pony, but it is at least a one-trick pony done right.
GamerFitNation's Brittany Figaro writes about educational video games for kids. "Video games are fun, but to have your kids learning things while playing a video game is a win-win for parents.
After looking around Toys-R-Us with one of my friends, I thought about video games that educational. She just bought her little one a DS, and one game that caught my eye was Brain Age. I’m a huge Sudoku fan, so I had fun playing that. I gave her little girl a challenge, but one that was attainable. That matters. So here are five games that are educational for your kids for DS or Wii."
Green Pixels: Plunking down $50 for a brand-new game can be a gamble -- it's a lot of money to pay for something that you could end up hating. However, most games don't stay full-price for long, which is why we scoured the inventories of four major retailers (Amazon, GameStop, Target, Walmart) to find a slew of great titles that are now priced at just $20. For the cost of one freshly released game, you can buy two older titles and still have $10 left to spend on snacks. (And we all know the importance of snacks.)
Game Informer have just sent out their newest edition to American stores nationwide and this months' review scores can be found below. Super Mario Galaxy receives the game of the month award, while Rock Band also impresses. Time Crisis 4, Soul Caliber: Legends and Jenga were this months' worst games.
Rock Band (PS3/Xbox 360/PS2, EA): 9,25 / 9,25
F.E.A.R. Files (Xbox 360, Sierra): 6,5 / 7
Beowulf (PS3/Xbox 360, Ubisoft): 5,75 / 5
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men (PS3/Xbox 360, Eidos): 7 / 7,25
Warhammer 40,000: Squad Command (NDS, THQ): 8 / 8,5
MX vs. ATV Untamed (Xbox 360/PS3, THQ): 8 / 8,25
Scene It? (Xbox 360, Microsoft): 8,5 / 7
Viva Pinata: Party Animals (Xbox 360, Microsoft): 5,5
Bee Movie (Xbox 360/PS2/Wii/NDS, Activision): 6,5
Time Crisis 4 (PS3, Namco Bandai): 4,25 / 4,5
Super Mario Galaxy (Wii, Nintendo): 9,75 / 9,75 **Game of the Month**
Smarty Pants (Wii, EA): 7,5 / 6
Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 (Wii, Ubisoft): 7,75 / 8
Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles (Wii, Capcom): 8,25 / 8
Soul Calibur Legends (Wii, Namco Bandai): 4 / 4
Ghost Squad (Wii, Sega): 7 / 6,5
Battalion Wars 2 (Wii, Nintendo): 7,25 / 7,25
Endless Ocean (Wii, Nintendo): 6
Trauma Center: New Blood (Wii, Atlus): 7,5
Medal of Honor: Heroes 2 (Wii, EA): 6,75
Dancing With the Stars (Wii/PS2, Actgivision): 5,25
Jenga (Wii, Atari): 2
It's amazing how they keep recycling Mario and the public just keeps on eating it. Talk about staying power and it's a kids game.
there have only been 8 main mario games more then some and less then others. Hardly milking
I don't think Mario Galaxy is as much for kids as it is kid-friendly. I remember being a teenager and being attracted to games that contain violence or speed but I'm now in my mid 20s and Mario Galaxy is definitely one of my favorite games right now. As a bonus, my kids would be able to play it if I had any.
You must be really young to call mario a kid's game. Those of us who grew up with the series on nes and snes know how timeless/ageless the series is.
Only an immature child would write off Mario games as recycled kiddie games. I'm guessing a game has to have cursing, vulgarity, blood, and gore to be adult huh?
lol at Jenga's 2/10. I don't remember GI giving such a low score in a long time. Nintendo should really stop letting some publishers dumping their worst on Wii. Anubis 2, Balls of Fury, Those 2 games IGN reviewed yesterday and now Jenga.
True but PS2 did not so many bad games in early it's days. Wii is hardly 1 year old and already has as many 1/10 games as PS2 had in 3-4 years.
I agree that there are many horrible Wii games out there right now, and I think we can safely attribute the slew of early-on bad Wii games to devs trying to make a quick buck on the Wii craze which they had hugely underestimated along w/ the fact that the Wii introduced an unfamiliar control scheme. In addition, the PS2 did not sell as well as the Wii has in its infancy, and as a result did not attract as many developers early-on and did not have as many games in general its 1st year as the Wii has (correct me if I'm wrong).
I'm not so sure that the Wii having a lot of bad games early in its life has any significance, but we will see.
Mario Galaxy was great. A freind of mine who owns a wii and a ps3 says he's addicted to mario galaxy. If I got a wii I'd get soul caliber legends before anything though.
