Showing posts with label Wii. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wii. Show all posts
Wednesday, 24 June 2009

The Exception To Prove The Rule

The Rule: Video Games Based On Movies/TV Shows Suck.
Trust me on this one, I've seen dozens of great movies, and I've seen almost all of them turned into games that stink worse than my co-workers farts. No matter how great the source material is, they always seem to do a quater assed job of it.
They make these games on a very small budget as to maximise their income. People will flock to game stores to get these games just because they enjoyed the movie.
And they will keep producing these crappy games so long as you buy them, so I beg of you, stop flooding the Top 10 charts with games that REALLY do not belong there.

OK, rant over.

Now, as with any rule, there are exceptions, In this case I'd like to talk about GhostBusters: The Game, now this... this... is how movie games should be made, great gameplay, the proper voice actors, and not some cheap sound alike and no quotes from the movie on loop, that drives me loopy that last one.

Set after the events of GhostBusters 2, you play Nameless Rookie, hired as the teams Expertiment Equipment Tester, cause the rest are to valuable to the team to try it themselves.
Soon after your induction, ghosts start to appear all over New York, some of them bringing back some bad memories for the GBs. And using your experimental backpack, you and the GBs do what they do best, capture the ghosts and 'accidentally' cause damage along the way.

The capture system, can be a bit confusing at the start, using 3 of the shoulder buttons a the same time to perform a successfully capture, but after about 5-10 ghosts, you'll get the hang of it.

I haven't played much of the game yet, so far I've only clocked up about 2 hours, but from what has happened so far, the rest of the game will be amazing.

Who ya gonna call... Work, and tell them your sick.

NB. Ive only played the PS3 version, so I'm not sure how the Wii version matches up, with its different graphics and gameplay, If you have played it, leave it in the comments or submit a video for 20something TV.

Sunday, 14 June 2009

E3:7 - New Super Mario Bros Wii

Mr Nintendo is back.

Level design is a good as you'd expect from a Mario game. With more power ups than ever before, including (as show in the video) Helecopter Jumpsuit, for a boost when jumping, and the Penguin Suit, for throwing balls of ice that freeze enemies one the spot, even in mid-air, which can then be used as platforms.
Up to four players can team up, (whether its only online or if you can get four people at home to play, in not sure), and play though the main game. Which, and correct me if im wrong, will be the first console mario game where you can do this .

Due Christmas 09.
Tuesday, 9 June 2009

E3:5 - Legend Of Zelda

Looks like the Legendary Hero of Time is back. Nintendo only release a single piece of artwork at E3:


Here we have Link, in his Greens and I'm guessing a Hyruilan Shield, but no sword! And who or what is this strange creature behind Link. I might be crazy, but It kinda looks like the Master Sword come-to-life. Cool

Due 2010.
Saturday, 11 April 2009

How Many Animal Crossings Must A Man Walk Down?



I recently got Animal Crossing: City Folk (Lets Go To The City) for the Wii, I played it for a week and got bored. It's a good game, a great game in fact, but I've done it all before on the DS.

Animal Crossing seems to be a series where you really only ever need to get one version of it. Each game has its differences, but at its core, its the same game:

New in town, get a mortgage, pay it off buy selling junk to the guy you owe money to, get a bigger house, make your house presentable, and make your town look nice.

And its been the same each time.

While I've been writing this, an advert for Pokemon Platinum just played on the TV, which made me think, the Pokemon series is just as repetitive as Animal Crossing, yet I find them a lot more interesting. What is the difference in their formulas that makes me catch Pokemon for hours, but makes me leave Animal Crossing after I've caught a few fish?

Counter