lilred
11-28-2006, 04:10 PM
This past weekend, Pat and I spent 2 days in Morgantown, hanging with friends, watching the disappointing WVU game and escaping from the routines of life.
Our buddy Jason just bought a Wii, and needless to say we played it the whole weekend. I was always skeptical because it broke from the norm with the controller, and the usual Nintendo "Cartoon" games. I thought no chance with Xbox 360 and PS3.
So it wont win any awards for visuals, it wasn’t designed for that, alone. However it’s better than the Game cube and PS2.
Remember how the rumble packs for the N64, and shock controllers for PS(2) were revolutionary? Times that by 10 and you might get the affect of the Wii system and controllers. Yes there are two controllers technically. It’s not perfect, but it’s brilliant.
We played 6 different games: Zelda, Wii Sports, Cars, Red Steel, Need for Speed: Carbon, and another racing game. The racing games takes a bit to get used to driving with the controller (long ways) but is not too difficult, you just don’t get the feed back like typical controllers. Zelda was beautiful and had a very nice feel to it. Red Steel was actually fun once you learned to use both controllers, move your player with one, point and shoot with the other. Wii Sports is packaged with the Wii console and is very very addicting. Keep in mind you can have up to 4 players. Wii sports features Boxing (with both controllers in each hand and actually boxing and dodging), Bowling, yes you literally roll a imaginary ball, even put a spin on it, Golf, yes swing the controller like a golf club. Tennis and Homerun derby style baseball, you can pitch and swing with the actual motions. All these games got "you" into the "action" of physically being involved with the game. Not only are these games fun with other people, they are also fun by themselves. You are literally worn out after a couple of hours.
I haven’t even mentioned what the Wii itself packs. It’s an amazing little guy with great potential. Another possibly great thing was Jason said his parents really enjoyed "bowling" and were tearing it up. How many parents like video games, let alone will play them?
So if you get a chance, play with one. See for yourself. For the kids, for yourself, hell for the family. It levels the playing field and makes it fun and competitive for all. Besides 250 looks a lot better than 600 any day.
Our buddy Jason just bought a Wii, and needless to say we played it the whole weekend. I was always skeptical because it broke from the norm with the controller, and the usual Nintendo "Cartoon" games. I thought no chance with Xbox 360 and PS3.
So it wont win any awards for visuals, it wasn’t designed for that, alone. However it’s better than the Game cube and PS2.
Remember how the rumble packs for the N64, and shock controllers for PS(2) were revolutionary? Times that by 10 and you might get the affect of the Wii system and controllers. Yes there are two controllers technically. It’s not perfect, but it’s brilliant.
We played 6 different games: Zelda, Wii Sports, Cars, Red Steel, Need for Speed: Carbon, and another racing game. The racing games takes a bit to get used to driving with the controller (long ways) but is not too difficult, you just don’t get the feed back like typical controllers. Zelda was beautiful and had a very nice feel to it. Red Steel was actually fun once you learned to use both controllers, move your player with one, point and shoot with the other. Wii Sports is packaged with the Wii console and is very very addicting. Keep in mind you can have up to 4 players. Wii sports features Boxing (with both controllers in each hand and actually boxing and dodging), Bowling, yes you literally roll a imaginary ball, even put a spin on it, Golf, yes swing the controller like a golf club. Tennis and Homerun derby style baseball, you can pitch and swing with the actual motions. All these games got "you" into the "action" of physically being involved with the game. Not only are these games fun with other people, they are also fun by themselves. You are literally worn out after a couple of hours.
I haven’t even mentioned what the Wii itself packs. It’s an amazing little guy with great potential. Another possibly great thing was Jason said his parents really enjoyed "bowling" and were tearing it up. How many parents like video games, let alone will play them?
So if you get a chance, play with one. See for yourself. For the kids, for yourself, hell for the family. It levels the playing field and makes it fun and competitive for all. Besides 250 looks a lot better than 600 any day.