Full FeedGamertell Review: Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga for Wii
Boy, Valhalla Knights: Eldar Saga sure sounds impressive, doesn’t it? The title makes it sound like a game that shouldn’t just be played, but conquered. There should be figures and books and a movie. It just sounds epic. Sadly, it’s not. This is a game that sucks the joy out of gaming, and that’s too bad, because there probably is something great here burried under the layers of muck.
Gamertell Review: Ju-On: The Grudge for Wii
Ju-On: The Grudge is faulty on many levels but I’m willing to forgive many of them because of the subtitle “Haunted House Simulator” thrown across the box.
Have you been to any of the haunted houses that spring up in wooded areas and old schoolhouses at this time of the year? Ju-On gave me more scares than they do, so I at least have to give it credit for that.
Gamertell Review: LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias WiiWare game
LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias is a charming little game. I hesitate to say that because it calls to mind singing mice or scruffy puppies with hearts of gold but that’s what Winter of the Melodias is: charming.
It’s also a gorgeous game with some good puzzles, a nice dose of adventure, and fairly unique combat that’ll appeal to gamers of all types.
Gamertell Review: Cursed Mountain for Wii
I’ll start off by saying that Deep Silver got the name of this one right. That mountain sure is cursed.
Most of this game’s personality comes from the mountain. It’s oppressive in some ways, but rewarding. As you stand at the bottom and look up at the peaks, you can’t help but feel like you’re not getting anywhere. But as you make your way up and look back down at the villages you’ve been through, you’ll know you’ve accomplished something. You’ll have to develop this connection with the mountain because, quite often, that’s all there is.
Gamertell Review: Metroid Prime Trilogy Collector’s Edition for Wii
The Game Cube games Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes have been updated for the Wii. They’ve been touched up here and there, they’ve been converted to widescreen and they’ve been blessed with the WiiMote-Nunchuck combo. To top it off, they’ve been bundled with Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, placed on one dual-layer disc and given perhaps the best packaging yet seen in the US With all this, Nintendo and and Retro Studios have given us the best deal available on the Wii.
Even if you’ve played all these games before, it’s a package all Wii gamers should own.
Dead Space Extraction live web demo tomorrow (September 29, 2009)
The Dead Space Extraction PR machine continues rolling towards tomorrow’s release (September 29, 2009). EA and developer Visceral Games have announced a live webcast demo will be held at 12:00 p.m. (PST), September 29, 2009, in honor of the launch. The one-hour webcast will feature demonstrations of Dead Space Extraction‘s gameplay (as if we haven’t all been watching them through their dev diary over the past few months).
Fans will also be invited to participate in a Q&A session with the Visceral team.
Gamertell Review: Madden NFL 10 for Wii
EA kind of has the right idea with Madden NFL 10 for Wii, even if you don’t agree with the results. It simply can’t look as good as it does on the Xbox 360 or PlayStation, so why bother trying? Instead, they’ve rebuilt the game from the ground up to give it a new, stylized look. I’m okay with this. In fact, I like it a lot, but keep in mind that I come from time when a medieval warrior was depicted by a block carrying around an emoticon. Things that don’t look real can still look good, after all, as long as the design is sharp. It is, straight through to the new menu navigation system.
Hardcore Wii Franchise #1: Resident Evil
And so, here we are at the pinnacle of our list of the top 5 hardcore Wii franchises. We’ve been to fantasy worlds, we’ve been to hospitals, we’ve been in outer space and we’ve explored dungeons. Now, we’re going to a quiet little town named Raccoon City for a home tour, to take in the local color, and maybe get our head eaten off. Resident Evil is likely as hardcore as franchises get on the Wii. You’re killing zombies, after all. Violently. There are shotguns and chainsaws and axes and RPGs and giant fish, but there’s also fancy jewelry you can wash off for cash reward. See? Something for everyone.
Hardcore Wii Franchise #2: The Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda series is the reason we own Nintendo systems. That’s right, I’ve said it. You can keep your Mario. It’s the Zelda games that keep us enthralled for weeks—even months at a time as we work our way through amazing adventures in Hyrule. Without fail, the games in the Zelda franchise have been epic in scope (well, CD-i games not withstanding), which is why we wait with baited breath at every Nintendo press conference for the announcement of a new Zelda game.
Hardcore Wii Franchise #3: Metroid
From the operating table to the depths of space we go as we continue our quest for Wii franchises that’ll launch new gamers into the realm of hard core. Metroid is one of those rare games that has grown comfortably with the times. Since switching to 3D, the games have always been hampered by somewhat cumbersome controls. Freed from this limitation by the Wiimote/Nunchuck combo, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption suddenly performed the way its protagonist—bounty hunter Samus Aran—is portrayed: quick, fluid, and natural.
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