Wii Sports Resort is a new collection of fun sports games that anyone can pick up and play. This sequel to the popular Wii Sports™ makes use of the Wii MotionPlus accessory, which is intended to give players a more responsive and realistic experience. The Wii MotionPlus accessory, which is included with Wii Sports Resort, plugs into the base of the Wii Remote™ controller and, combined with the accelerometer and sensor bar, provides an experience that gives players an even greater sense of immersion.
Here's your first trailer for EA Sport's annual juggernaut FIFA 10. Curiously for EA Sports, aside from the depth of field effects going on in the background, that really is "actual gameplay footage".
Here's a rather interesting game from a small Russian developer. Currently without a publisher, U-Wars is a third-person shooter that takes place primarily underwater. Players will still be able to duck behind cover, but the mechanic gets an interesting twist in the absence of gravity. With supposedly destructible environments, there's a lot of potential in the game's combat: imagine ducking behind cover, thrusting up, and shooting some harpoons at enemies below. If done properly, the underwater setting offers the potential for a lot of fun.
Underwater combat isn't entirely new, as it's been seen in games like Tomb Raider Underworld and Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow. It'll be interesting to see how U-Wars fares once it finds a publisher and makes its way to PC, Xbox 360 and PSP.
The original Overlord is one of those games that actually could gain a lot from being ported to Wii. On the other hand, doing so would have been both technically impossible and, honestly, kind of lame for everyone who already played the hell out of it. What we've got instead is much better: a completely new game in the series that plays very much to the strengths of its platform.
We've got a new main character in the form of a 16-year-old Overlord, a new setting that's even more storybook inspired than before, and a cast of characters like a not-so-innocent Red Riding Hood, a tooth fairy conspiring with the gingerbread witch, and a pair of siblings with elf and dwarf fever, respectively. Grimm's fairy tales were honestly pretty dark to begin with, but this is a game that just turns them whimsically evil. Considering the more kid-friendly nature of the platform, it's kind of a surprise that while some of more over-the-top antics of your minions have been changed (they no longer get loaded and pee on tables, for instance), the whole thing is still pretty hilariously brutal. Particularly the new option to pick up a minion by the neck and shake him like a British nanny with the Wii Remote. It's fair to say that the humor of the other games remains intact here. I'm still getting a kick out of the posturing of the Overlord's elf-obsessed older brother, who dresses in green and gives floridly awful speeches about the forest's pain while the real elves stare at him looking all "honky just said what?"
Boom Blox Bash Party builds successfully upon the foundation of the original by giving you more ways to knock stuff around. You still have access to various thrown objects like balls and bombs but you also get new toys like a slingshot that lets you flick objects around the hyper-color levels and virus blocks that 'infect' anything they touch. The developers have also expanded upon the puzzle-like nature of the stages; in some levels, one or two well-placed shots will send every block flying off the playing field in a Rube Goldbergian display. For example, in one level, I used paint balls to strategically 'paint' objects in a specific order; by doing so, I was able to initiate a chain reaction that cleared the board in one go.
Wii Sports Resort is a new collection of fun sports games that anyone can pick up and play. This sequel to the popular Wii Sports™ makes use of the Wii MotionPlus accessory, which is intended to give players a more responsive and realistic experience. The Wii MotionPlus accessory, which is included with Wii Sports Resort, plugs into the base of the Wii Remote™ controller and, combined with the accelerometer and sensor bar, provides an experience that gives players an even greater sense of immersion.
