Wii Sports is a collection of five distinct sports games where each game utilizes the Wii-mote controller to provide a natural, intuitive and realistic feel. The game lineup includes Baseball, Bowling, Boxing, Golf, and Tennis. Use the Wii Remote controller to mimic the actions of swinging a racket, bat or club; pick up a spare at the bowling alley; or knock out the champ with a left cross.

Wii Sports allows you to personalize your experience with your own Mii caricatures. Your Mii becomes the character that represents you through a variety of Wii games making for a more interesting experience. As your skills improve, your Miis’ skill levels will also increase, allowing you to gauge how much better you have become.
Wii Controller Features
Baseball - Your character stands in the batter’s box and takes pitches. You attempt to get on base by holding and …

The story takes place in the land of Hyrule where an evil darkness envelops the realm. The story follows Link, a young farm boy in a small village who is ordered to attend the Hyrule Summit. Link learns he must travel to the Twilight Realm where he transforms into a wolf and is ultimately captured. Link must scour the land to uncover the puzzle behind this inexplicable darkness with the help of a mysterious girl named Midna. Link is adept with a sword and shield, but also makes good use of his bow and arrows.
Wii Controller Features
The basic movement of Link is controlled with the analog attachment. The buttons on the Wii-mote allow you to interact with items, access your inventory, and check out your map. The d-pad gives you three slots to assign items from your inventory (left, right and down).

Melee attacks are …

With only 17 days remaining until the worldwide launch of the Wii, Nintendo is planning midnight launch parties at selected locations from New York to Los Angeles to celebrate the momentous occasion.

Nintendo’s revolutionary new Wii video game console goes on sale at the stroke of midnight the morning of Sunday, Nov. 19 and fans of the console franchise will need to get in line fast, as demand is sure to be high for the holiday season.

Midnight launch events will begin at Toys “R” Us Times Square in Manhattan and GameStop at Universal CityWalk in Los Angeles. The Nintendo-sponsored events will feature live music and entertainment, fun, games, special guests from Nintendo. Many other retailers are expected to hold their own midnight launch events.

“Toys “R” Us Times Square will be the first store in the United States where customers can both experience, and purchase Wii,

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Many will remember the successful Excite Bike on the original Nintendo Entertainment System. Memories of the body English and arm-flailing necessary to land those big-air jumps are sure to come back. Well, you can relive that experience with Excite Truck for the Wii. Excite Truck is a solid game which nicely fills the racing genre for the Wii launch and will surely satisfy even the staunchest of racing fans.

The game features 11 vehicles and loads of dynamic terrain. Picking up items on the course can cause the terrain to deform in real time making for some interesting gameplay. This can turn innocent-looking bumps into massive launch pads that affect not only your route, but that of buddy too. Other items can instantaneously change the scaling of the environment around you or make …

Elebits is a radical game of hide and seek where you search high and low for mischievous little Elebits. The fully interactive environment gives you ample opportunity to make good use of the innovative features of the Wii controller to push, pull, lift, toss and otherwise interact with anything and everything.

The story involves tiny creatures called Elebits that must be captured so that the Earth can continue to spin. You see, Elebits are mischievous little beings that are the source of the world’s power and it is your job to collect them and put them back to work. Gameplay is in first person and you move objects with a gravity gun. There are hundreds of Elebits to search for and find and you gain additional abilities as you capture more of them.
Wii Controller Features
Character movement is accomplished with the Wiimote which allows you to …

This installment of the Nintendo Wii game preview series will focus on Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2, the latest in the series of DBZ-inspired fighting games from Atari. Dragon Ball Z video games are based on the popular cartoon and card game. Over twenty Dragon Ball Z video games have been released in the United States and Japan since 2002.

Budokai Tenkaichi 2 features lightning-fast melee with elements of RPG and action-adventure gameplay. Players engage in epic battles set in 15 vast and highly-destructible environments. The environments feature the high level of interactivity you have come to expect from the previous games with massive 3D destructible realms and an abundance of game modes.

Fans of the series can reenact their favorite ki-powered techniques with a roster of more than 100 characters from the pantheon of Dragon Ball Heroes. The …

This is the first installment in a multipart series featuring the games for the Nintendo Wii. The series will focus on how game developers make use of the Wii controllers to create a unique gaming experience. This installment will feature Avatar: The Last Airbender from THQ.

Avatar: The Last Airbender is based on the popular Nickelodeon cartoon, and lets you play as Aang, Katara, Sokka and Haru. The Last Airbender takes place in a magical world containing humans, unique animals, and supernatural spirits. The Human faction is divided into four nations: the Water Tribes, the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation, and the Air Nomads. Each nation contains people called benders who possess a unique ability called bending which allows them to control their native element such as water bending, …

The upcoming Nintendo Wii game console sports some unique game controllers that are sure to set it apart from other console releases this fall. Nintendo’s goal with its new revolutionary game controllers is to make gaming as accessible to many people of many ages and abilities. The controllers are comprised of two different input devices: the Remote and the Nunchuk.

The Remote is the size of a typical remote control and functions as a wireless Wii Remote controller. The Wii Remote controller uses Bluetooth technology and sends your actions to the Wii console from as far as 30 feet away. The Remote also functions as a pointing device, includes a speaker, rumble feature, and expansion port for additional input devices (like the Nunchuk). Some of the functionality provided by the Remote includes:

In a tennis game, it serves as your racket you …

GameStop, which is probably the biggest video game retailer in the US, said on it will be accepting limited pre-orders for the Nintendo’s Wii video game console yesterday (Friday), one per household. If you haven’t gotten your order in, you better get on it.

All you need is 50 bones to reserve, but many stores were reporting to be out of availability within minutes. Maybe it’s hype, but you can call your local Gamestop store first to see if they have some left. No online pre-ordering is/was available, but they say they will have something at a later date.

Nintendo expects to supply 4 million Nintendo Wii units to stores by year end, and Sony expects to ship 2 million PS3s in the same time period, so by my count if you missed the pre-order you just might be ok.

The Wii’s one-hand controller …

Nintendo is gearing up for the holiday seasons with this new Nintendo Wii (pronounced ‘we’). It is expected to be available in the US November 19th (right after Sony’s PS3 comes out) and available in Japan in early December.
In this version Nintendo seems to be targeting a little bit younger audience (which is line with it’s recent campaign to have Nintendo toys in Happy Meals). It sounds like it’s intention is to not compete directly with the PS3 or Xbox, but to less sophisticated gamers.
The controllers will connect through wireless Bluetooth and have a motion sensor along with the common unitive features. There is also a remote “Nunchuk” style remote that works with motion by waving it like a wand.
The Nintendo Wii is going to be a little different in that it is doing more to integrate gaming and the device with the …