|
| 
| From: Nintendo
Category: Video Games
New (23) Used (6) from £189.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  471 reviews
Sales Rank: 2
Platform: Nintendo Wii
Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Media: Video Game
Age: 3 - 18 years
Operating System: Nintendo Wii
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.1
Dimensions (in): 15.1 x 9.9 x 4.4
MPN: WII
Model: Wii
UPC: 045496342043
EAN: 0045496342043
ASIN: B0007UATDG
Release Date: December 8, 2006
|
| Customer Reviews:
 Wii will NOT rock you . August 9, 2008
14 out of 42 found this review helpful
Well well well, I have played with this thing many atime, and have decided it is pretty naff, it just doesn't have staying power, the only games it seems to have are Multi-Platforms, Bunches of awful minigames, or Nintendo re makes (MARIO AGAIN ANYONE?!)
No one can deny its popularity, but it just isn't as good as everybody says it is, Nintendo just pay members of the public to say it's amazing on television (wii fit im looking at you)
"stand out" games included things like Super Paper Mario (surprised to see mario rear his ugly head?)
Mario Kart (Guess who)
And Smash Bros. Brawl Starring....MARIO!
Okay, hats off to the NES with Mario Bros. and Duckhunt, But they should have left it there, it is clear Nintendo are running out of ideas.
I have noticed that the price on here has dropped by a whole penny, why on earth is this? it should be 20 cheaper by now surely.
So yeah, the Wii... Will play minigames and ps2 ports, the control scheme gets boring after a week and it the only multimedia it can cope with is telling you the weather and showing you how much spare time people have on the Mii Parade.
Let's see where the Wii is this time next year...I'm thinking the back pages of argos with a bundle of about 4 games. (all of which will include Mario Im sure)
It will follow the same path as the DS, one good game every year.
Don't waste 179.99 of your hard earned cash.
WOOPS I mean 179.98!
 Totally Brilliant August 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Decided to get myself a Wii as noticed that you can buy a lot of the old Nintento classic games like Mario 64 etc from the Wii shop. Along with the Wii console you get Wii Sports.
Have to say am truly amazed with Wii, The experience is amazing Mario Kart is ace & Wii sports, like boxing & bowling is excellent. The console has a very small foot print so uses very little space compared to other consoles. The Wii remote is great to hold & use & I love the way you get sound effects through the Wii Remote which really adds to the gaming experience.
If your thinking of getting a Wii, then do you won't be disappointed.
My new Wii July 14, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Have just got my nitendo Wii and its great fun and really easy to set up,Wii sports is v good but would advise buying a second controller to make it that much more fun.Will need to buy some more games though asap.
Best thing since electricity! July 9, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm really not a console gamer at all, in fact this is my first console! I was thrilled by the thought of playing tennis in my own home. I have had the Wii for nearly 5 months now and am still absolutely hooked. I would recommend getting some rechargeable batteries as if one if playing every day (as one is bound to do) then you'll need them!
It's fabulous for all ages really - my parents are now hooked too!
It's a must-buy gadget!
I hope it catches on... July 7, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Let's compare the Wii to games on other next gen consoles first. Now don't get me wrong, GTA-SA (not seen GTA 4 yet), the Halo and Half Life series, to name but a few, are some of the finest games ever made. But you can't have a QUICK game of any of them because each stage of the campaign might take up to an hour to complete. Playing them requires a dogged mindset, which can feel like having to tackle a sinkful of dishes when you only want a clean cup for a quick brew. A lot of modern games have the depth, complexity and epic scope of Wagner's Ring Cycle, but there are times when all you want is a three-minute pop song. You get the picture. The Wii fills this forgotten gap in the market admirably.
The ethos of old-skool video gaming lives on in the Wii. Mario Galaxy, Mario Kart, Wii Play, Super Smash Brothers Brawl and even Link's Crossbow Training are masterful, being simple pick-up-and-play games where the emphasis is on a mainlined injection of fun and action rather than the drawn-out, drip-fed satisfaction of strategy and exploration. Wii Sports, which comes with the console, is utterly brilliant. It's a killer app, nothing like it exists (or has EVER existed) on any console, and it's a perfect multi-player game.
The Wii is undoubtedly less technically sophisticated than the 360 or PS3. The Wii does not raise the bar in terms of technical umph, but rather limbos under it in a floral shirt, shaking the remote and nunchuck controllers like a pair of maracas. The Wii is primarily about simple, and often mindless, fun, and there's nothing wrong with that. While the Wii may only nibble numbers while the other consoles crunch them to dust, it is still no technical slouch. The graphics and sound are about as good or slightly better than the old Xbox, and much better than the PS2. Campaigning gamers are still catered for with the likes of Metroid Prime Corruption and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, although the console comes into its own on simpler fare, particularly Super Smash Bros Brawl, Mario Kart, and Super Mario Galaxy, which is another killer app for the Wii. I would never have believed that the tired old platform format could be given... well, not even a face lift, more like a brain transplant. The technology might not raise the bar, but the gameplay on all these titles certainly does. I've been playing home video games since the days of the Atari 2600 (yes I am an old git), and these are some of the best games on any platform... ever! Mind you, all the games I've mentioned here are Nintendo originals, and not all developers lavish their games with the amount of attention and warmth that Nintendo do. I'll return to that subject later.
As any fule no by now, the unique feature of the Wii is the controllers. They are packed with more clever gadgets than Q's Christmas stocking. They contain speakers which play sound effects, usually to give hints or warnings on some games. With the remote connected to a nunchuck, you have one analogue thumbstick (on the nunchuck), one d-pad (on the remote), and four main buttons, two on each controller. The role of the right-hand thumbstick on traditional controllers is assumed by the sensor bar which you place above or below the TV screen, and the infra-red receiver at the front of the remote. The sensor bar is not aptly named, since it does not actually 'sense' anything, it merely emits two points of infra-red, and the remote cleverly converts it into three-dimensional co-ordinates for your on-screen pointer. That's right, I said THREE dimensional co-ordinates: some games require you to push and pull the remote in and out of the screen like a snooker cue. You can apparently mimic the action of the sensor bar by placing a couple of tea-lights on your telly because they also emit some low-level IR radiation. I don't know if this is true, and I'm not inclined to find out because I don't particularly want to set my house on fire.
As Prince William recently demonstrated on national television, gawd bless 'im (he was on the news playing Wii Sports tennis, I don't know what the story was), the controllers also have motion detectors to recognise when you are tilting or shaking them. This means that most games have you pretending that the controllers are bats, racquets, fishing rods, lassos, hammers, swords, guns and heaven knows what else. You might look a pillock if the neighbours see you through the window, waving your arms around, smashing the light fittings and giving yourself tennis elbow, but it doesn't half add to the fun of playing. The Wii's clever control system makes its games feel distinctively different, not to mention more tempting to people who would never normally show any interest in playing video games, like maybe Prince William. It also means that the Wii lends itself to 'lifestyle applications' like Wii Fit in ways that the other consoles do not. Motion detection and infra-red sensors are far from new technology, but the way Nintendo have incorporated them into the Wii is a genuine innovation, and one which I'm sure had the boffins at Microsoft and Sony slapping their foreheads and asking why they didn't think of it. I'll bet all my saved game files that they will do something similar on their next generation of consoles. Unfortunately, the controllers run on batteries and there is no 'corded' option to run or recharge them off the console's power supply. Given that cheap and reliable rechargeable power packs are put in everything nowadays from toothbrushes to fence-paint sprayers, and most companies are trying to enhance their green credentials, it's a bit thoughtless of Nintendo not to have done the same with their controllers.
If you like a bit of fun in addition to 'serious' gaming, you should get a Wii to sit alongside your 360 or PS3. If you are not in the least bit interested in video games normally, then this is definitely the console you should buy. The games I've mentioned here will keep you going for ages... but it's a good job that they will, because there are also some problems with games for the Wii, as I mentioned earlier.
Third-party game developers do not seem to take the Wii seriously. There are far too many cutesy novelty titles, which all too often are collections of substandard mini-games that have you wobbling the controllers around just for the sake of it. The very worst offender here is Sonic and Mario at the Olympics. My Amazon review has been slated and given umpteen `not helpful' ratings, but I stand by my opinion - it's a high-gloss, polished turd of a game, and ludicrously overpriced. There are others that sink to similar depths of gameplay, but this one was the most overhyped. After that, check out the revolving racks of your supermarket for the glittering array of shovelware on offer - all of it so stinky that not even a dog would sniff it. Then, check out the `hot new releases' section of Amazon for the Wii, or just wander into your local game stockist and look at the Wii racks. Depressing, isn't it? True, some developers (Konami with PES 2008, Capcom with RE4) have taken their games and given them a revolutionary twist for the Wii - but they're about the only examples I can think of.
Bottom line, the Wii is capable of great things, and some of the games available for it are truly modern-day classics. But the third-party games market for the Wii is a pretty barren landscape at the moment, and without them I'm not sure how much patience we Wii owners will have with the trickle of good new games that come out, particularly now that Nintendo have surely squeezed the Mario franchise dry. I hope, with its squillions of sales, that the Wii catches on!
|
|
|
| |
