Posts Tagged ‘nintendo’

Wii Wasteland

// March 7th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Gaming

The Wii landscape is as barren as the world outside of a Fallout 3 vault. The selection of games that have been released over the past couple of weeks have demonstrated an utter lack of creativity that frankly has to be seen to be believed.
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Are you ready for some football?

// September 29th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // Gaming

This past weekend I picked up Madden ‘09 for the Wii and while it can’t hold a candle (visually) to the PS3 and XBox360 versions it trumps both where it counts. I have to give credit to the guys and girls over at EA Sports, because they finally “get it”; the Wii is different. My biggest complaint with most of the Wii ports has been that they are often ‘half-baked’ attempts at paying lip-service to the console and its radically different control scheme. MLB 2k8 did a decent job with the controls on the Wii, but the interface didn’t degrade well from the HD goodness of the PS3 and X360 to the lower resolution Wii. Madden 09 on the other hand aces both.
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