Posts Tagged ‘Wii’

Foremost amongst is Platinum Games (formerly Clover Studios) developed Mad World. Superficially it seems like everything the traditional gaming crowd has been demanding. A (primarily) black and white colour palette gives a stylish Frank Miller graphic novel vibe to the experience and a lavish splattering of blood and gore (I said primarily black and white) ensured it received a rating of ‘M’ for mature (which is the last thing I would label it). It is a visually arresting style and while in dire need of some anti-aliasing it manages to dodge most of the Wii technical limitations and function far better in motion than stills suggest.

And there’s blood.

Its outer appearance masks a simple old fashioned fighting game, updated for the 3D generation with a few waggle controls added for the Wii. You move through stylised levels, which for the most part merely amount to new skins over a single blood soaked skeleton, forcing you to repeat the same few mundane actions until you reach a stage’s unique bonus stage or boss fight. While Mad World’s intermissions are certainly more diverse than its forefathers the one hook that used to keep me enthralled is sorely lacking, co-op. This is a game that should be enjoyed and at laughed with friends, but when your friends can only sit and drink beer while watching the mayhem it loses something that used to make me replay Streets of Rage over and over again.

The black and white aesthetic is far clearer in motion.

Fallout 3 – New Vegas, Bioshock 2, Assassins Creed 2 and Dantes Inferno are all games we do not talk about. Instead we focus our attention on Final Fantasy XIII, Wii Motion Plus and a plethora of other juicy topics that sprung to mind. All this before we have a little chat about the direction of the handheld market, and why if iPhones are the future you should just wait and buy one when you get there.

News also has a heavy Nintendo focus. There is the upcoming Silent Hill re-imagining for Wii, Nintendo putting the kibosh on Tecmo bringing Fatal Frame 3 to the West and wanting to invigorate the Japanese gaming market (assumedly with Wii Music 2) its been a high profile week for the big N. We also have a quick chat about up coming game based movies. All of this is followed by a talk about downloadable content in games with a little help from the boards at uuddlrlrba.co.uk and Darrens old games which this week focuses on Segas fantastic Shinobi series.

Somewhere in all this there is also a competition to win the Street Fighter 20th anniversary art book, hot of the presses straight from Japan (pictured here). Over 300 pages of beautiful Street Fighter promotional and concept art all up for grabs. To be in with a chance of winning simply listen and mail the required information to either me (Alex – alex@dofuss.net) or Darren (darren@dofuss.net).

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One SD card icon.

Also to help with the memory issues the update has managed to increase the maximum supported capacity of SD card. From a previous cap of 2GB the SD card slot now supports up to 32GB. Considering that the average size of downloadable content for Wii is smaller than most of its peers (and the fact that they don’t require patches/updates) 32GB seems more than enough. It also adds the interesting question of how this new 32GB limit was reached. With a software patch raising the limit maybe even this is merely an arbitrary amount, not a hardware limitation, so can be raised further in the future.

The new Freeloader screen...