Game Reviews
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World of Goo Published Date: Oct 31, 2008Simplicity in puzzling is key. This, of course, is different from ease. One simultaneously wants to understand a puzzle’s objective without, however, knowing exactly how that objective will be met. Thus classic puzzle games like Tetris found ready-made audiences everywhere they turned, until tryin...
Genre: Platform: Wii
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Wii Music Published Date: Oct 27, 2008In some sense, games like those from the Guitar Heroes series and Rock Band suffered largely from their strength: they rock, and they rock hard. And while this seems an admirable goal for the KISS Army, it’s something of a disadvantage for those not ready to rock. Indeed, there’s something narro...
Genre: Music Platform: Wii
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Wii Fit Published Date: Jun 12, 2008There’s something counterintuitive, even vaguely off-putting, about a videogame that’s earnestly intended to improve your health. Videogames, as we all know and have heard, are pernicious, sedentary, monotonous activities that promote obesity, strain vision, and engender repetitive-stress injury...
Genre: Sports Platform: Wii
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Wing Island Published Date: Jul 23, 2007So far, we’ve had a look at Blazing Angels and Heatseeker. (Check out our write-ups in the review section if you haven’t already.) Between those two, it was kind of a head-to-head race, which was decided in the end only by the fact that Heatseeker has no multiplayer or friend play mode to offer ...
Genre: Flight Simulation Platform: Wii
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Wii Play Published Date: Jul 23, 2007Once you begin to come out of your daily Wii Sports fitness training all refreshed instead of all sore, and once it has sunk in that Multiplayer Fun is where the new Nintendo Wii console excels (as long as your living room is big enough, that is), you may find that the time has come to move on to Wi...
Genre: Party Platform: Wii
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Wario Ware: Smooth Moves Published Date: Apr 4, 2007In anticipation of the release of Nintendo’s Wario Ware: Smooth Moves for the Wii, I began stacking up Wiimotes a little while ago, hoping that I would soon be able to have as many friends flip out over this game as could fit in my living room �" Now the game has arrived, and despite a slightly ...
Genre: Action Platform: Wii
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Wii Sports Published Date: Mar 18, 2007If you've seen Nintendo's new Wii console with your very own eyes and tried it, too, then you've also seen Wii Sports. For the rest of you out there (and I know there are many, based on how quickly all the newly distributed batches of consoles tend to sell out), the advice is this: Definitely, defin...
Genre: Sports Compilation Platform: Wii
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