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THINGS TO WATCH OUT FOR: The dreaded "WIIMAKE"

There were a lot of third-party games that didn't make it to GameCube last generation. Unfortunately, a lot of companies have decided that the best way to make a quick buck off of the initial success of the Wii is to repackage these last-generation games, map a button-press here and there to some slashy-feeling wiimote movement, and call it a new release. WATCH OUT FOR THESE. With a few exceptions, they are horrible, and completely a result of software companies being caught with their pants down and having nothing ready to support Wii, since as we all should know , it takes a couple years for a development team to make a great game.

After having the Wii for a few months, here's my call. 360 has better games right now. No doubt about that. However, the Wii has in its lesser games some flashes of brilliance which the 360 will never be able to duplicate in this round of consoles. Once the developers figure out the controller, it's going to be ON.

If you're a retro gamer, the Virtual Console will absolutely warm your heart. I love it.

If you're a big online gamer, go 360. Its online support is and always will be better than Nintendo's. Nintendo wants to see families and friends together playing in front of the TV. That's their business model. Not that online won't be good in their games: I just think that it will always be an afterthought. Of course, this could change if they get a sales backlash related to it. It's unlikely at this point, though, since Wiis are still flying off the shelves and there are still shortages in areas.

If you love eye candy and have an HDTV, go 360. However, be warned: on regular TVs, the difference in graphics quality between 360 and Wii does diminish.

Obviously, if you love the Nintendo franchises and hearing "It's A-Me, Mario" puts a little sunshine and rainbows into your day, as always, go Nintendo.

And my apologies to all Sony followers, but in my humble opinion, the PlayStation 3 is close to doomed. I've been an avid gamer ever since the Atari 2600, and I know when the blood is in the water. PS3 is this generation's Dreamcast. There, I said it.

Hey, KP.

Thanks for all the information.

Port over Guitar Hero II or the upcoming Rock Star and I may think of adding a Wii to my set-up. But for now the 360 works just fine, especially with HDTV and HD-DVD player.

Guitar Hero 3 and Rock Star are both slated to be on the Wii this holiday season. Rumor has it that you may be able to slide the wiimote into the guitar hero guitar and do cool new motion tricks when your Star Power is full.

I finally got my WII. Was having trouble with set up till I found out I was standing too close...

And I just played a round of WiiBoxing.

Man, that was fun!

Cool! I love tennis, bowling, and golf myself.

Hey, we could start swapping Legion World friend codes!

If they do Rock Star I may just have to buy it for the Wii instead. Caroline really wants one where she can play drums and I want the guitar. We could have a LW rock band.

Just where do you find your code anyway?

And Scott, would we name the band "Garth and the Proties?"

HURRAH!!!!
I've finally gotten a Wii!!
Me and my Girlfriend had a blast playing Wii Sports, I can see that game becoming a party game favorite. She KOed me in boxing!! Golf and baseball were alot of fun too.
Also have Wii Play (came with the second Wiimote). Really liked pool and the duckhunt syle game there.
Picked up Zelda:Twilight Princess and Super Paper Mario as well. Haven't played alot of these two yet, but they seem like fun games so far.
For the VC I downloaded Punch-out (that game is as much fun as I remembered it being) and good old Super Mario Bros. There are a few other games I want to get but I have to pick up a classic controller first.

Despite a long history of gaming (I started with an atari 2600) the last few years I haven't gamed much. I found games becoming too complex to be truely enjoyable. I found developers were focusing so much on how realistic they could make the game they were missing on what I feel is the true purpose of gaming....how much fun the game is to play. Wii seems to be returning to this focus.
I haven't had it long but I love my Wii already!!

Oh, swapping Legionworld friends codes sounds like a great idea, but like BB said, where do we find them?

I'm still getting to know the Wii but I really like the new Mario Party. Anybody's Miis really look like them?

I tried, but he's more how I'd like to look. ;-)


Okay. I found out how to find the Wii Code.

1. When you turn on the Wii, there's an envelope icon in a circle on the lower righthand corner. Click on that.

2. This brings you to a screen that has three icons on it. Two on the lower left hand side, one on the right that says Wii. The leftmost icon is a calender. The one next to that is a pen and paper icon. Click on the pen and paper icon.

3. This gives you 3 large icons in the center of the screen. The leftmost says Memo. The center is a large open enevelope. The one on the right says "Address Book" and has two smiley faces on it. Click on that one.

4. The Wii number should appear on a screen that says "Address Book" again. If it doesn't, click the minus icon to the left, and that should bring it up. Once you add something to the address book, it doesn't take you automatically to the front page.

My Wii Number is 2308 4718 2007 5245

Anyone else want to share?

Thanks for the heads up BB.

I'll add you and post my code when i get home from work this monday.

Ok BB i've added you

My Wii code is 3042 9106 9086 6590

Hope to see your Mii's on parade soon

Ded,

it's not letting me send you a message. Try to send me one.

As a reward for doing so well on my diet and diabetes control, I bought MySims for the Wii and pre ordered Super Mario Galaxy and Guitar Hero 3.

I was thinking about Guitar Hero 3, but are the songs all like hard vintage rock? I think I saw a song list sample and only knew a few of them...

I'm not sure, ME.

I'm going to suck at it so much I won't recognize the songs anyway.


But MySims is kinda addicting. I've gotten almost four hours into it already. That's a long time for me.

i read that the New Star Wars game "Star Wars, the Force Unleashed" is supposed to have a heavy Lightsaber playable mode for the Wii,....if i haven't burned out from Playing games on the Xbox 360 i might be tempted to buy a Wii

This is the official track list (in play order) for the 360. I'm assuming that the Playstation and Wii versions will be the same or very similar.

Tier 1:
Foghat - Slow Ride
Poison - Talk Dirty to Me
Pat Benatar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Social Distortion - Story of My Life

Encore: Kiss - Rock and Roll All Nite
Co-op Encore: Beastie Boys - Sabotage

Tier 2:
Mountain - Mississippi Queen
Alice Cooper - School’s Out
Cream - Sunshine of Your Life
Heart - Barracuda

Boss: Tom Morello - Guitar Battle
Encore: Rage Against the Machine - Bulls on Parade
Co-op Encore: The Strokes - Reptilia

Tier 3:
The Killers - When You Were Young
AFI - Miss Murder
The Who - The Seeker
Priestess - Lay Down

Encore: Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
Co-op Encore: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Suck My Kiss

Tier 4:
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
The Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the UK
Sonic Youth - Kool Thing
Weezer - My Name Is Jonas

Encore: Pearl Jam - Evenflow
Co-op Encore: Blue Oyster Cult - Cities on Flame with Rock and Roll

Tier 5:
The Dead Kennedy’s - Holiday in Cambodia
Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane
Aerosmith - Same Old Song and Dance
ZZ Top - La Grange

Boss: Slash - Guitar Battle
Encore: Guns N Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Co-op Encore: Bloc Party - Hellicopter

Tier 6:
Santana - Black Magic Woman
Smashing Pumpkins - Cherub Rock
White Zombie - Black Sunshine
Tenacious D - The Metal

Encore: Stevie Ray Vaughn - Pride and Joy
Co-op Encore: Matchbook Romance - Monsters

Tier 7:
Slipknot - Before I Forget
Disturbed - Stricken
Queens of the Stone Age - 3’s and 7’s
Muse - Knights of Cydonia

Encore: Living Colour - Cult of Personality

Tier 8:
Slayer - Raining Blood
Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Metallica - One

Boss: Lou - Guitar Battle
Encore: The Devil Went Down to Georgia

Bonus Tracks:

An Endless Sporadic - Impulse
Backyard Babies - Minus Celsius
Bret Michaels Band - Go That Far
Die Toten Hosen - Hier Kommit Alex
Dragonforce - Through the Fire and the Flames
Fall of Troy - FCP Remix
Gallows - In the Belly of a Shark
The Hellacopters - I’m in the Band
Heroes del Silencio - Avalancha
In Flames - Take This Life
Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby
Killswitch Engage - My Curse
LA Slum Lords - Down N Dirty
Lacuna Coil - Closer
Lions - Metal Heavy Lady
NAAST - Mauvis Garcon
Prototype - The Way It Ends
Revolverhead - Generation Rock
Rise Against - Prayer of the Refugee
Scouts of St. Sebastian - In Love
Senses Fail - Can’t Be Saved
The Sleeping - Don’t Hold Back
The Stone Roses - She Bangs the Drums
Superbus - Radio Song

For me, I have to say that I'm digging the Wii's controller setup-- the nunchuk and remote combo-- a lot. It makes some games a lot easier.

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Chris bought himself a new mobile just before Christmas and it came with a free Wii. We weren't expecting to get it until some time this month since they're seriously sold out in the UK (still, I think. Certainly a complete lack of them before Christmas) but in fact they shipped it from Germany so we got it before Christmas, which was especially good since we didn't have an internet connection or decent TV (we'd just moved house and were having... issues with all that stuff).

The Wii went with us to both our families and we spent many hours playing Wii Sports and agreeing that it's possibly one of the best things in the world. Since then we've been playing Super Paper Mario (which Chris has completely finished and I'm about half way through) and I've been obessivly playing Lego Star Wars (the complete six films version). I've nearly finished all six films and still only have 59% done, but I;ve not gione back and got all the canisters and challenge levels of a lot of them. I've still not unlocked the Bounty Hunter levels either and haven't worked out how to unlock Indiana Jones as a character either.

We've also got Rayman: Ravin' Rabbids 2 which is a genius game for playing with other people (we spent about four hours playing it with friends the other weekend) and Brain Training (which is oddly compulsive) and Super Mario Galaxy (which I've not really played yet but Chris has and can only play for about fifteen minutes without feeling sick because it's very disorientating but also brilliant).

Ah, I love the Wii. Also my Wii does look creepily like me. We've still not got intenert connection so we're not hooked up online with it yet but when we are I shall let you all know.

I thought this was just for kids. My cousin got one and we've played it half a dozen times. I love it as does my entire family. I need to get one!

We've come to the conclusion that it's actually the opposite. The regular games are for younger people as ever but the ones designed specifically for the Wii are actually aimed at older people. In fact Chris' Grandmother (who is 83) is seriously considering buying one because she liked the bowling so much.