So far it brings back memories but needs serious reconfiguring to make it playable for multi-player.
Next week I will talk more about this game.
Monday, March 29, 2010
New Super Mario Bros.Wii
I bought this game for my fiancée over the weekend and played it with her. Basically its a spin off of all the mario brothers games for NES and Super NES in one, but the difference is that some things are in 3D and you can use the Wii Remote to interact on screen. I have not beaten the game and have only gotten to the second world but it closely resembles super mario world. It is extremely basic for levels for advanced players, but for beginners it proved challenging for my fiancée. Most of the beginning levels involve moving platforms, something that beginners have a hard time jumping to especially when they have such a hard time getting Mario to go where they want him to move to. I died once in the first world and my fiancée died a grand total of 55 times. For every 5 times you die you must use a continue, and in exchange you receive 5 additional lives. I think the greatest feature of the new super mario bros.wii game is you can play co-op with up to four players; Mario, Luigi, (Blue) Toad and (Yellow) Toad. However the players are "solid" and you can not walk through eachother, resulting in death when you are trying to jump from one tiny platform to another in a hurry. Its too difficult to coordinate the timing between four players especially when the screen is moving and there is little ground for the players to walk on. Not only that but if the leading player goes too far the screen moves with that player, and the player dragging along dies. You are constantly waiting on another player and if you do anything ahead of the other player you risk killing them. When you do die you fall off the screen and float back in a bubble and the other player must pop it for you to be able to play again.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Wii Resort - Full List of Games
Each of the following are the games you can play in Wii Resort, the drop downs are games that can be unlocked by finishing the first game or by reaching a total point number or beat a certain time.
Sword Play
- Knock your opponent off the platform with your sword
Swordplay Speed Slice
-Slice object at the right angle as fast as you can! The judge decides who wins.
Swordplay Show Down
-Fight a horde of sword fighters! Take three hits, and its over. Defeat all enemies to win!
Wakeboarding
- Wake board behind the boat and catch air off the wake! Just be sure to land flat.
Frisbee
Frisbee Dog
- throw the frisbee at the target -- the dog will catch it!
Frisbee Golf
- Play golf with a frisbee! Throw the frisbee into the target on the green
Archery
-Use the wii remote and nunchuk to aim your bow and shoot your arrows right on target
- 3 levels of difficulty
Basket ball
3 Point Contest
- Sink as many 3 point shots as you can before time runs out! The bonus ball is worth double points!
Pickup Game
- Its a 3-on-3 pickup game. Dribble, pass, shoot, or dunk it!
Table Tennis
Match
- Score 6 points first to win. try angling your paddle to put spin on the ball.
Return Challenge
- Return as many serves as you can. Think fast and hit faster!
Golf
3-9-18 holes
Bowling
Standard Game
- Hit the lanes ans knock down as many pins as you can!
100 Pin Game
- Bowling with 100 pins! Knock down as many as you can for a max score of 3,000.
Spin control
- It takes skill to avoid the barriers in the lane. Put some spin on that ball!
Power-Crusing
Slalom Course
- Cruise through the gates as fast as you can. Bonus rings are worth double points!
VS
- Ride through the rings in order, and race to reach the finish line first!
Canoeing
Speed Challenge
- Paddle to the finish line! Maintain a steady pace to keep up your speed.
VS
- The first player to pass a checkpoint scores 1 point. The winner is the first to get 5 points!
Cycling
Road Race
- Use your hands to pedal with the Wii Remote and Nunchuk. The key to speed is good timing.
VS
- Reach the goal first to win. The trick is to save your energy and use it at the right moments.
Air Sports
Skydiving
- It's a long way down! Link up with other Mii characters as you free-fall, then smile for the camera!
Island flyover
- Take a flying tour of Wuhu Island! How many (i) points can you find?
Dog Fight
- Shoot your rival's balloons! Whoever has the most balloons left at the end wins.
Thats it for now Im not sure what Im going to post next week so we will both be surprised!
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
Wii Resort
Wii Resort is basically an add-on to Wii Sports, the game that came with the Wii system. It includes the following games: Swordplay, Wake boarding, Archery, Frisbee, Basket Ball, Power Cruising, Cycling, Golf, Table Tennis, Bowling, Canoeing, and Air Sports. In each game the more you play the more games (up to 3) you unlock per category. While all the games have some level of fun each one is only really fun (in my humble opinion) when you play with someone else and they are competitive. Some of the games such as Cycling require so much energy to play that the user is less likely to play the game again, mainly out of sheer exhaustion. Over all the game is fun, users get to see their Mii in action against other players whereas inn other Wii games they do not get to see the character they created. This game is fairly fun and has several games sure to appeal to everyone's tastes; the wii motion sensor is awesome in unlocking even more potential with the Wii console. Because their is so much for each individual game I will go into short detail per category next time to reduce the amount of text to read.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Trama Center: New Blood
I picked up a cheap game from Game Stop called Trama Center: New Blood. This game is played through the view point of a surgeon and in my opinion is quite challenging. Corny scripts, and the plot has holes, but I want to primarily talk about user control during the game.
As mentioned above you perform surgery. Each surgery has a time limit, to progress through the game you must complete the surgery within the time allotted. Rankings are given for your performance conducted within each surgery. Each surgery has the same beginning and end. Sterilize the incision point, and use the scalpel to cut into the patient. For each process in the surgery you see on screen the grade given for how well you perform each step (Etc. a straight incision is given a "cool" compared to a zig-zag incision which would be given a "bad"). After playing this game for a while I noticed that the grading system is inaccurate. Often I would be given a 'cool' rating for a hasty stitch job and a fast incision, and vice versa. After a while it seems impossible to obtain an 'A' rating for every surgery as they progressively get harder.
In each surgery the patient's vitals are displayed at the top of the screen. Each surgery has a twist and reduces the vital meter, also the vitals continually decline during the operation. To the vitals go back up you have to select your syringe and draw 'vital fluid' from a jar and inject it into the patient. In easy mode, the vitals drop at a very slow pace, medium difficulty at a medium pace, and hard at a ridiculous rate. On complex surgeries it became impossible to complete the surgery on the medium difficulty. Towards the end of the game I found that I would have to lower my difficulty just to move on. Not that I lack the skill, but that some hemorrhaging would occur so often that it is way to hard to put the patient back together and look after their vitals, while doing all this in a timely manner. I feel that the game (rated T for Teens) is beyond their ability to complete the game on a normal difficulty setting.
Overall I thought the control of the cursor is acceptable. The slower you are (to improve accuracy) the more sensitive the game is to your actions. If you move at a fast pace, like making circle to cut something out and not worrying about where exactly you are cutting, the game does not seem to care and your motion does not affect the patient. I found that even opening up the patient in a hurried manner was more effective then taking your time to make a straight line to cut into the patients chest. Often the hurried process would receive a 'cool' rating. I would recommend this game solely on the 'cool factor' of performing surgery, however the rating system is flawed, and the faster you move your cursor the game compensates because it cannot keep up with your movement. I purchased the Wii Motion Plus, which is an attachment placed on the bottom of the Wii Remote, and provides information to the Wii Console to make the remote in a X, Y, Z axis, instead of the standard X, Y axis. The additional information transmitted to the Wii console pin-points the location of the remote in a space relationship to the Wii Sensor Bar, this allows a more fine-tuned control and the Wii Console does not have to compensate for user control because it can not keep up. In the control of the game, to meet its like going from using a 10ft pole to touch object on a screen, to using a pencil.
However this additional attachment raises the cost of the 'controler' to more than $80.00.
$20 Nun-Chuck
$40 Wii Remote
$20 Wii Motion Plus
+ Tax.
As mentioned above you perform surgery. Each surgery has a time limit, to progress through the game you must complete the surgery within the time allotted. Rankings are given for your performance conducted within each surgery. Each surgery has the same beginning and end. Sterilize the incision point, and use the scalpel to cut into the patient. For each process in the surgery you see on screen the grade given for how well you perform each step (Etc. a straight incision is given a "cool" compared to a zig-zag incision which would be given a "bad"). After playing this game for a while I noticed that the grading system is inaccurate. Often I would be given a 'cool' rating for a hasty stitch job and a fast incision, and vice versa. After a while it seems impossible to obtain an 'A' rating for every surgery as they progressively get harder.
In each surgery the patient's vitals are displayed at the top of the screen. Each surgery has a twist and reduces the vital meter, also the vitals continually decline during the operation. To the vitals go back up you have to select your syringe and draw 'vital fluid' from a jar and inject it into the patient. In easy mode, the vitals drop at a very slow pace, medium difficulty at a medium pace, and hard at a ridiculous rate. On complex surgeries it became impossible to complete the surgery on the medium difficulty. Towards the end of the game I found that I would have to lower my difficulty just to move on. Not that I lack the skill, but that some hemorrhaging would occur so often that it is way to hard to put the patient back together and look after their vitals, while doing all this in a timely manner. I feel that the game (rated T for Teens) is beyond their ability to complete the game on a normal difficulty setting.
Overall I thought the control of the cursor is acceptable. The slower you are (to improve accuracy) the more sensitive the game is to your actions. If you move at a fast pace, like making circle to cut something out and not worrying about where exactly you are cutting, the game does not seem to care and your motion does not affect the patient. I found that even opening up the patient in a hurried manner was more effective then taking your time to make a straight line to cut into the patients chest. Often the hurried process would receive a 'cool' rating. I would recommend this game solely on the 'cool factor' of performing surgery, however the rating system is flawed, and the faster you move your cursor the game compensates because it cannot keep up with your movement. I purchased the Wii Motion Plus, which is an attachment placed on the bottom of the Wii Remote, and provides information to the Wii Console to make the remote in a X, Y, Z axis, instead of the standard X, Y axis. The additional information transmitted to the Wii console pin-points the location of the remote in a space relationship to the Wii Sensor Bar, this allows a more fine-tuned control and the Wii Console does not have to compensate for user control because it can not keep up. In the control of the game, to meet its like going from using a 10ft pole to touch object on a screen, to using a pencil.
However this additional attachment raises the cost of the 'controler' to more than $80.00.
$20 Nun-Chuck
$40 Wii Remote
$20 Wii Motion Plus
+ Tax.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Wii Sports
Wii sports comes with some fun but basic games: Golf, bowling, tennis, boxing, and baseball.
Golf is quite fun, and has the basic principles of the game. It has different clubs, different grass types, wind, and a power meter for your swing. The play must stand in a golf swing stance and hit the ball in the direction of the hole. Its fun and challenging, however moving your wrist for a swing is sufficient and that is the only player interaction. Up to four people can play using 1 remote.
Tennis is more interactive, swinging your wii remote is the same as your racket. Over hand and under hand matters on how you hit the tennis ball. The user plays both the forward and rear positions unless more people play (up to four) and they can play all the positions. While this game is my personal favorite it is limited to only 2 courts. While golf has several courses.
Bowling is a great game, its fun, easy to play for anyone, and mostly realistic. The down side to this game is the spin on the ball. Its almost impossible to make the ball spin, and the user has exaggerate twisting your arm to put spin on the ball. Up to 4 people can play on one remote.
Boxing is extremely fun and by far the most interactive. The user must connect the nun-chuck and the wii remote together and punch just like a real boxer would. This includes blocking, and leaning with the controllers to dodge punches. The rules are the same for real boxing but each player has a health pie chart. This game can be played by up to 2 people, but 2 wii remotes are needed and nun-chucks.
Baseball is very limited. 4 players can play, but it is limited to a hitter and the pitcher. The hitter swings the wii remote as a batter, and the pitcher acts like they are throwing the ball but hold down one of the buttons on the remote. This changes the thrown ball type; fastball, curve ball, and splitter. Its fun but so limited as a game its not very entertaining, this game only requires the wii remote.
Overall the games are fun, and best played with someone else. In each game the more its played, you can unlock extra games in that category. I think Wii Sports is a good foundation as to what to expect in games, although I am hopeful that it improves. I feel like although this game is good for kids, it is overall too limited for adults to continuously play over and over again.
Next week I am going to play a Wii game other than the game that came and I will report back on the controls and interactivity of it. I would like to see if Nintendo has made better games than Wii Sports and increased interactivity.
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