Professional Outragers Rage Against Madworld on Nintendo’s Wii
Once again, the less intelligent amongst us confuse a console for the games it plays. Yes, the Wii system can and does play such family-friendly fare as Wii Sports, Mario Everything, and Endless Ocean. That doesn’t mean it somehow can’t play games that gleefully splatter blood into your living room like Resident Evil 4, No More Heroes, and now, Madworld.
Madworld is a video game about a reality show, in the kind of reality where people with chainsaw arms go about slaughtering in a terrorist-controlled city for cash prizes. There are all sorts of stylized and over the top touches set against a Sin City-esque black/white/red palette but really, you either heard the term “chainsaw arms” in that special hidden little place in your heart, or you didn’t.
In a move about as stunning as the sun rising, the sort of people with nothing better to do …
Deadly Creatures Preview Trailer for Nintendo Wii
As a native Arizona boy, there are certain things I’ve come to accept and appreciate in this world, and one of the most important is that anything with more than four legs wants to sting you, poison you, and lay eggs in your corpse. As such, the upcoming game Deadly Creatures, about the adventures of a tough scorpion and stealthy tarantula, simply confirms what I already knew about the arachnid side of the animal kingdom.
What sets Deadly Creatures apart from all those other insectoid fighters we’ve been wading through is a sense of atmosphere provided by the scale of the levels and the characters. Crawling through the debris of a human world, our …
No More Heroes Playthrough by Chip Cheezum
No More Heroes is an excessively violent fighting game from the incoherent Suda51 set in the Californian city of Santa Destroy. The game revolves around one Travis Touchdown, an unlikable anime obsessive who decides to become a professional killer after blowing his last dollar on a light saber off eBay.
The game is all about style, with cartoonish figures, hard shadows, bizarre characters, and a certain sense of randomness combined with geek culture references both subtle and gross. It uses the Wii controls in strange and unholy ways to simulate sword-fighting. And wrestling moves. And mowing lawns.
No More Heroes cannot be described, you must see it for yourself. To that end, Chip Cheezum from the Something Awful forums has run through the game with commentary, cutting out the boring parts and speeding up the grindy bits to deliver the ultimate No More Heroes experience. …
Obama Family Owns, Plays a Nintendo Wii
Even the first black president prefers a white console… It’s been recently confirmed that the first-family elect has picked up a Wii console for Christmas, and Obama has joked about how he’s better at Wii bowling than the real thing during his campaign.
Normally, something like this would be a fluff piece, but it brings up two very intriguing points. First, real adults, as opposed to us tall-children types, are buying and playing Nintendo’s crushingly popular game system. Can you see your parents sitting down for a relaxing night with the ol’ PS3? Secondly, the soon-to-be leader of the free world and most powerful man on the planet plays video games. Maybe not often, maybe not those Ninja Gaiden-style controller snappers, but certainly now and then with his family. It’s a start.
The gamers are winning. After Obama’s eight years are up, …
Fragile — Japanese RPG Musical Trailer
I’m mostly posting this just to fill up Helvetica with the boiling fluids of pure and liquid desire. Fragile, or more proper, Fragile: Sayonara Tsuki no Haikyo, is a role-playing game for Nintendo’s Wii set in a post-apocalyptic world. Sound familiar to anyone here? The difference is that the world is covered by a strange darkness and dense fog. Most of the world’s population has vanished, and the cities rest empty in their rotting decay.
Fragile should appear on store shelves in Japan come around the end of January, but as yet there’s no telling when it might be released to the rest of the world.
Dead Rising. Wii. Zombie Rock Video
Well, this is unique. Capcom has plans for Dead Rising on the Wii, which only makes sense, but what doesn’t is this video. Zombie punk rockers sing about Dead Rising in Japanese. There is violence, and there are explosions. Check it out right here.
Crystal Chronicles on the Wii. God Help Us All
The official name is Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time, but down here on the streets, we’re calling it goddamn gamer crack. I’ve lost friends to the original game, always coming around, asking if I wanted to try some Crystal, telling me everyone’s doing it. Join the party, they said. Now, on the Wii, sometime in 2009? Hell, I tell you.
“What Games Should I Get?” Wii Edition
So you’ve just slipped $250 into Shigeru Miyamoto’s g-string and come away with a lapful of shiny white Wii. But even though you’re willing to drop the better part of a paycheque on a gaming system, you have no idea what games you should shove into the blue and bright video maw of your gaming system. You know, that you bought to play games.
You’re not alone. In fact, dozens of people just like you have been cluttering up the message boards and forums I frequent, so it’s come time to do something about your incredible, if free-spending, ignorance. So then, I present you to the infallible Vox Ex Machina List of Nintendo Wii Games You Should Buy Right The Hell Now (Preferably From Our Online Store).
Super Mario Galaxy
It’s the latest Mario game for the latest Nintendo console and if you didn’t buy …
Walmart Set to Let Slip the Wiis of Holiday War
The Wii has emerged from the dirt and blood on the console wars to trample the naysayers and competitors alike under its gray boot. But even two years out, the damn things are still too hard to find. Walmart plans to change that by unleashing a flood of Wiis on its website, starting, er, this last Monday. The offer comes in two flavours; the basic Wii package and a value bundle that includes an extra set of controllers and other items. Really, you were going to buy more controllers anyhow, right?
Certain games and accessories will also be discounted during this latest surge in the console wars. You can find the details in this Reuters article.
Animal Crossing: City Folk for Nintendo Wii
So What’s New?
The latest Animal Crossing edition combines elements from the previous two games, creating a world familiar to fans while offering the most bang for players new to the series. Like the original GameCube classic, AC: City Folk offers a console game world on the big screen along with the additions and improvements of the DS version. Now widescreen-capable with added visual details to your favorite flowers, fish and furry friends.
The curvature of the world is similar to the DS game, hypercylindrical but limited. View the horizon as you travel up and down in multiple levels. You get your rivers, your waterfalls and your strip of beach for all your fishing needs! Your town comes with a native fruit and your basic flowers. New bugs, fossils and fish have been added for your collecting enjoyment.
AC:CF puts your Wii remote to good use: cast your line to fish, swing your …
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