Like the Microsoft Conference, Nintendo has theirs. They talk about a few interesting things such as; the new Wii Speak, Wii MotionPlus, and more uses for the Wii Fit Board. The Wii Speak, is finally a microphone for the Wii, it attaches to the top of the sensor bar, and allows an entire room at a time to be heard. The Wii MotionPlus is an attachment for the Wiimote, in which it makes all motions much more responsive. The new Wii Board functionality will be explained with the games below.
Shaun White: Snowboarding- The first game that was shown. In this game you use a combination of the Wii Board and the Wiimote. By balancing on the Wii Board you control the character on the screen and it looks like you hold the Wiimote out behind to use for moves and extra balance. The game itself looked fine, the graphics were decent. The one thing that annoyed me was the music, great songs, but they were redone to a lesser form of themselves. One was the Ring of Fire, which sounds fine and great with Johnny Cash, but it had someone else singing. Other then that this game needs to be watched.
Animal Crossing: City Folk- Like most Animal Crossings this game is all about being open-ended. But now being online it looks better then ever. The graphics still are the same, but still charming. It also adds the element of the city in this one allowing you to explore a new 'land'. All in all, this looks like the best Animal Crossing yet, but there is one thing that makes this extra special. It is the first game that will use the Wii Speak feature.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars- There was only a trailer shown, but the trailer was action packed. It also showed that it would have motion controled lightsaber duals. Which is also a plus.
Rayman TV Party: Raving Rabbids- A trailer was shown with this as well, it looks like the other Rabbid games, just a mini-game collaboration.
Call of Duty: World at War- A slight surprise to me. It looks nearly the same as the others coming out on the other systems. This one will have coop as well as announced in the trailer, other then that I do not know what is in store for COD.
Guitar Hero: On Tour Decades- The next installment for the DS versions of GH. This one allows the transfer of songs, from the previous DS title. Which should be a good idea.
Spore- a DS and Wii version are coming, but they only show off the DS version here. It shows that they are using a much different graphical approach by making everything look more 'papery'. The game itself looks the same as the PC version, but other then that not much was shown, as this was a trailer as well.
Pokemon Ranger: Shadows of Almia- This game was just announced nothing revealed yet.
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars- A decent sized bomb shell. A DS GTA. Other then that nothing else was talked about it.
Wii Sports Resort- The sequel to the first Wii Sports. This one comes packaged with the Wii MotionPlus. They show off three games, Disc dog, a wave racer type of game, and Sword Fight. In disc dog you throw a frisbee, the further you throw it the better because the object of teh game is to have the little dog next to you catch it before it hits the ground. The wave racer game looked fast paced as you hold the Wiimote and Nunchuck like you would with the handle bars of a jet ski. The last looked the most promising, Sword Fight. If playing by yourself, you just cut logs and the such. But with mulitplayer, you attack your opponent off the stage and into the water. It looked fun and very responsive with the MotionPlus.
Wii Music- Finally this game has been announced. After nearly two years of waiting they have finally announced it. They announced that there is over 50 instruments, I can't even name that many, and that they are all played by a mixture of motion and button pressing. By moving the Wiimote you can change the sound and intensity of your instrument. By hitting the buttons they hit the right note allowing you to play a song at your pace. They showed off a new thing as well; drums. With this you use the Wiimote and Nunchuck and the Wii Board. The Wiimote and Nunchuck are the drum sticks, and the Wii Board is the base pedal and the pedal for the cymbal stand. Overall this game look extremely promising and even has a multiplayer function to have many people (on stage they had six), play an instrument.
