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After a decade and a half, Nintendo’s finally revived its old-school arcade boxer with the help of developer Next Level (Mario Strikers Charged), and the studio absolutely nailed the essence that made the original such a hot property on the NES back in 1987. Everything that made Punch-Out!! a classic on the 8-bit system has been recreated in a beefier current generation game production, but it’s clear that fans of the original release were involved in the Wii version’s creation.

Punch-Out!! isn’t a boxing simulator, and it never makes any attempt at trying to be one. This is not the Wii version of Fight Night, so if you’re looking to realistically pound some professional boxers into submission I suggest you put the box back on the shelf and walk away. Of course, if you do this you’ll be missing out on one of the most challenging old-school inspired action games available.

Punch-Out!! is essentially a “rebooting” of the classic NES original, a title inspired by the arcade version of the same name, as well as its sequel that Nintendo released before the NES console. In Punch-Out!!, you’re “Little Mac,” a fighter rising through the ranks of the fictitious World Video Boxing Association. Each of the 13 fighters within the WVBA are over-the-top caricatures (read borderline stereotypes) of cultures and regions. You’ve got Glass Joe, from France, who crumples to the floor if a housefly lands on his chin, the fish-loving lumberjack Canadian Bear Hugger, and thirsty Soda Popinski from Russia who gets his super strength from a bottle of “carbonated beverage.”

If these names sound familiar, they should: they’re all characters from existing Punch-Out!! games, either on the NES version or the Super NES series. There are two different sides of the coin here for Punch-Out!! fans: these characters are pretty much what made Punch-Out!!, so their inclusions are expected. And for those who’ve never plowed through any Punch-Out!! games, these players won’t care about a roster recycling. On the flipside seeing the same characters makes the Wii version lose a sense of discovery; the only new fighter is one called Disco Kid, and thanks to the developer’s attention to Punch-Out!! detail, he fits into the Punch-Out!! universe like a glove…pun intended. But working through the ranks, it’s hard not to wish that there were fresher faces to fight, instead of being faced with the familiar, done up in 3D. It’s almost as if Next Level was afraid that it was going to dishonor Nintendo’s Punch-Out!! by designing new fighters that weren’t conceived by the original, internal team.

And it’s not because of laziness, because it’s clear that Next Level poured every ounce of effort it could into building an excellent, contemporary Punch-Out!! experience. First of all, the gameplay is absolutely spot-on to the classic material: Punch-Out!! is all about counter attacking, reading what the opponent does before he does it, and dodging out of the way to put him off-guard for a flurry of jabs and body blows. Each of the 13 fighters has his own style of fighting and attack patterns, and through trial and error (and many punches to the face) you learn how best to approach their different jabs, roundhouses, and uppercuts. Each fighter in the rankings gets increasingly faster and stronger with wilder tricks up their sleeves, and by the time you get to the World Circuit each victory feels like a mission well accomplished, a satisfying conclusion to all that control and determination.

The game controls in a variety of ways: either with the nunchuk or without. Using the nunchuk turns on motion controls: punching is handled via thrusting the left or right hand while dodging, blocking, ducking and changing high and low hits is all mapped to the analog stick. When you earn Star Punches by hitting the opponent at strategic moments you can activate these special moves with a tap on a button. You can choose to use the Wii Fit balance board to dodge and duck by leaning or thrusting downwards, but the less said about this option, the better. I will say that it’s nice that the developers made it easy to disable it after you’ve enabled it, because it’s just a control device that doesn’t work for the quick responses that Punch-Out requires.

Because the game mimics pretty much the entire NES design, Punch-Out!! is best played without the nunchuk. Without the plug-in peripheral you hold the Wii remote like an NES controller, with the 1 and 2 buttons handling the punches, the D-pad taking care of the dodges and ducks, and the big fat A button used to activate any earned Star Punches. While motion control might seem like a good idea against weaklings like Glass Joe, once you get higher in the rankings you’ll find that button presses are far more responsive than Wii Remote/Nunchuk thrusts…even if they feel more like actual punches do.

Where Next Level put most of its effort is in the game’s visuals. Back in the classic Punch-Out!! days the graphics weren’t much more than two-frame animations for the different attacks, a technique that worked surprisingly well considering the limitations of the system hardware. For Punch-Out!! on the Wii, Next Level created fully 3D versions of the characters and animated them accordingly. There’s a real professional polish to each of the fighters in the game: they all move with incredible fluidity and lip sync all the dialogue provided to them, all using in-engine assets. Between circuits you’re given some well-rendered cutscenes that make reference to Little Mac’s training back on the NES, but the same attention wasn’t applied to the opponents’ backstories: before a fight you’re given four stillframe cutscenes that tell their tale. These comic panels are admittedly painted with incredible detail, but they seem like a slight shortcut when compared to Little Mac’s extended video sequences. Yeah, it’s picking nits.

The real worry is whether Punch-Out!! still has what it takes to attract a new generation of gamers. After all, the core mechanics were conceived on basic two-button controllers more than 20 years ago, and those mechanics haven’t changed at all in the two decades since Punch-Out!!’s birth. It’s hard to approach Punch-Out!! without some sense of nostalgia, but I will say that the game doesn’t miss a beat in giving players a challenge that’s uniquely Punch-Out. I guess it depends on what newbies expect out of a Nintendo boxing game, and I can’t imagine anyone walking away from a fresh take disappointed, unless they truly expect some sort of realistic boxing simulator for their Wii. And it’s easy to see Punch-Out!! in its original context because both the NES classic and its SNES sequel are available for play through the system’s Virtual Console.

And even though 13 fighters seems a little short, the fact that you’ll face them at least a second time with completely different moves and strategies – and at a much faster speed – means that there’s a good amount of gameplay here. And this isn’t including the Exhibition Mode that challenges players with specific goals for each opponent to unlock additional content. Some of these challenges range from damn hard to freakishly difficult, and I can imagine the message boards are going to be set alight with people wondering how the heck to knock out Glass Joe in only five punches, or punch the crown right off of King Hippo’s head.

Punch-Out!! has always been a single player experience, but gamers have wished for a versus option for years. Next Level has answered these calls with a Head-to-Head mode that’s pretty clever in incorporating the Punch-Out!! mechanics that have always intended on being human vs computer. In this mode, each player controls Little Mac in a split-screen view. Players attack and dodge each other using the standard Little Mac moves, trying to land a punch that’ll steal a bit of “mojo” from the other person. When that meter fills, Little Mac becomes Giga Mac – essentially a usual, over-the-top Punch-Out opponent – and the screen shifts to a single view where the other player fights in traditional Punch-Out!! fashion. This head-to-head mode is fun with a good sense of strategy…if a just a little stiff in control due to the limitations of the Punch-Out mechanics. It won’t sell you on buying a copy of Punch-Out!! , but it’s a nice supplement to the single player component.

What’s baffling is the fact that Punch-Out!! doesn’t support any sort of online component. With Next Level’s work on one of the first Wii games to hit the internet (Mario Strikers Charged), you would think that it would apply that networking knowledge in getting the two player component working over the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Not supported. And also not supported are worldwide leaderboards to let players show off their best times and knockouts against the different characters. A huge opportunity missed. Any sort of record you earn in Punch-Out!! stays firmly in the system that you performed it on, and while we can live with the developer’s decision, it’s just flat-out disappointing that Nintendo decided to skip over any sort of online option in the Wii version.

Closing Comments
But I’m not going to let the lack of online kill the experience for me: Punch-Out!! on the Wii is a fantastic recreation of the NES original and retains every element that makes the game one hell of a challenge and insanely addictive. The Wii version also looks fantastic, with animation that puts a level of attention to character personality that’s rarely seen in a Nintendo first-party title. I’m thrilled that the formula’s been retained but I do wish there were more original characters to the roster. Luckily the second half of the game brings back that sense of discovery with character upgrades that change things considerably. Punch-Out!! nuts have nothing to worry about, and I think that the game design holds up really well, even for players who aren’t familiar with the brand’s unique offering of pattern-focused gameplay.

When the original Guitar Hero hit the PS2, it was clear that the music genre that we’d known for a while, dominated by the likes of Dance Dance Revolution, would be changed forever. Guitar Hero II was met with even more enthusiasm as people who’d played the first for hundreds of hours wanted more, and it indeed delivered.

And then Guitar Hero Encore: Rock the ’80s was released. And then Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. And then Guitar Hero Aerosmith. And then Guitar Hero: World Tour. And then Guitar Hero: Metallica. And now we have Guitar Hero: Smash Hits, to be followed up later this year with Guitar Hero: Van Halen, Guitar Hero V and Band Hero. Oh, and then there’s the offshoot DJ Hero.

And let’s not forget about Rock Band. And Rock Band 2. And the forthcoming The Beatles: Rock Band. Or the three Guitar Hero DS games. Oh, and Rock Band Unplugged on the PSP.

I think you get my point. By my count, I’ve listed nearly 20 titles right there, and it looks like we’re only just getting started. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably played at least a couple of these games, and they’re probably starting to grow a little stale. Or if, like us, you’ve played them all, a lot stale.

So that brings us to the version, I’ll say, at hand, Guitar Hero: Smash Hits. The game is a compilation of some of the best tracks from Guitar Hero 1, 2, 3, Rock the ’80s and Aerosmith. The song list is great, to be sure, though there are certainly some we would drop in favor of others (where’s Clapton, for instance?). But on the whole, it’s a great setlist.

But, we’ve played all of these songs before. It’s possible that you’re relatively new to the franchise and in that case this will all be new to you. But whatever the case may be, it doesn’t change the fact that this is simply a rehash of existing songs with the only “new” thing being the ability to play them as a full band. While that’s cool and all, this really should have been DLC or even multiple track packs.

The game’s main feature set is largely the same as Guitar Hero World Tour, with a couple of the additions seen in Guitar Hero: Metallica tossed in, such as the Expert+ setting for drummers on select songs (roughly about half of them it seems). It forgoes the gig-based structure of World Tour and instead goes by the setlist-based setup of GH: Metallica, where you unlock the next handful of songs (and their corresponding venue) by accruing a certain number of stars. While the requirements in GH: Metallica were pretty low (I “beat” the game with only 40% complete), you’ll need much more to move on here, which I’m happy to see as it means you have to work harder to progress. But the result is the same where you can skip songs that you’re not good at (or don’t like) and still make it through the game, which is nice.

While the setlist is indeed great as a whole (featuring nearly 50 songs, all of which are master tracks, though two of them are live versions), there are three main problems that I have with the songs. Firstly, the note structure has changed on seemingly every track. If you’ve memorized these songs in other games, you’ll find that you have to play them differently here, and many times it’s not for the better. Note progressions sometimes don’t make sense when compared to how you’d play it on guitar, and things just generally feel “off” if you’ve played them before.

Secondly, the changes to the note structure sometimes introduce the purple lines/notes for using the touch pad on the newest guitar. You can play these notes without strumming, and unlike hammer-on/hammer-off notes, if you miss one, it doesn’t break your string (in other words, you can play a note just by tapping even if you missed the one before). In these cases, it makes these sections way easier than they were originally as you can just tap your way through a solo instead of having to pair proper strumming with the notes. Even in situations where the purple notes weren’t added in, many solos are now just giant runs of hammer-on notes, which make them a lot easier to hit.

The result here is that I’m now able to breeze through solos and sections of songs that I used to struggle with. While I had a hard time getting through the opening to “Through the Fire and Flames” on Expert, as the entire opening is now comprised of purple notes, I can tap my way through and usually come out still in the green. So it’s now no longer a question of, “Can you beat song X on Expert?”, but rather, “Can you beat song X on Expert in Game X?” because many of them are way easier here.

My third complaint is that some of the mixes sound off. Queens of the Stone Age’s “No One Knows” is a good example – the guitar is drowned out (even when you’re only playing guitar), the bass is cranked up and the whole thing sounds too boomy. I’ve heard similar complaints in the office about other bands that I’m not constantly running on my iPod, but it’s clear that something isn’t right here. When you’ve heard a song a hundred times and the mix is slightly different, you can tell immediately. When it’s way off like it is here, you don’t even want to play it. Now, that’s not to mean that the whole thing sounds bad – I didn’t notice a problem with most of the songs here. But if you’re thinking about buying the game for one or two songs in particular, buyer beware.

One odd thing that I found with regard to the Career mode is that when you start up the game for the first time, you create a logo and set your band name. However, you can’t do this separately when you’re playing as a band. The interface for this in World Tour was convoluted, but it worked. However, you don’t even get the option here. One problem with this is that you can’t have two active bands at a time, so if you like to play with different sets of friends separately, you can’t really do that. Granted, the progression is very simple and you’re not building up fans or anything of that nature (sadly), but still, you can’t have the reward of working through the tracks with more than one group of people at a time. I guess you could load up a different account/save and work from that (which is trickier on the Wii than the PS3 or 360), but that’s a back-door solution to this issue (though, admittedly, some people will never care about this).

One carryover from Guitar Hero: Metallica is that every song is immediately unlocked and available for play in the Quick Play mode. Love it or hate it, you can jump right into the hardest tracks right from the start.

One last, very important thing that I need to mention here is that the game is as standalone as it gets. It does not support any of the DLC from World Tour, nor even have the option for playing downloaded tracks at all. It does allow you to play stuff made in GH Tunes, but I think most people tried that a couple times and forgot about it. While all of this is par for the course on the PS2, it’s a crying shame that nothing you’ve downloaded for the other Guitar Hero titles can be played here, and this content can’t be moved over to any other game in the series. At this point in time, why would you pony up for songs (which we’ve played before) that you can only play on this one disc?

Closing Comments
Guitar Hero: Smash Hits is the definition of “milking”. Sure, the setlist is great, and if you’ve somehow never played these tracks before, they’re a ton of fun. Even if you have played them all, being able to sit down at the drums or try out your vocal abilities with them is great. However, there are a number of presentation issues that bother me (though they may not bother very casual players), and the fact that this wasn’t either DLC or released as multiple track packs is a big mistake.

The Ratings:

7/10 The Presentation: The progression works, but it’s very simple for this day and age. Why can’t you customize individual bands?

7.0 The Graphics: The animations are only passable, and while the visuals work well enough, they’re nothing to write home about.

8.0 The Sound: The song list is great, but some of the tracks have mixes that sound off and, in some cases, just downright bad.

7.0 The Gameplay: We’ve played these songs before, though tackling them as a band is nice. The note structures and easier level of difficulty is not good, however.

6.0 The Lasting Appeal: While it’s still a great party experience, I can’t score it higher here given that these tracks can’t carry over, nor does your existing DLC. Where’s the cross-game love?

7.0 Overall score

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Baseball for the Wii is really like playing the real baseball game. Taking the Wii’s remote control, you will also stand in the batter’s box and took three straight pitches. After that will be a series of 10 pitches that will vary in speed this time. that way, you will be challenged on how to take on each pitch and what is the best strategy in hitting each faster ball pitched on you. Baseball for the Wii will really make you sweat and work your way out of the pitches to make a good standing in every inning. This thoughtful sports game can be taken as one of the bests, while still remains the natural, sports games for the Wii.

Anyone who will play the baseball for the Wii will have a proactive coach of sort because for every pitch and bat, there will be a feedback provided for the player. That way, and if you are taking the game seriously, you will be able to make the best out of yourself and the game as the play progresses. And it is all in your hand, since the remote of the wii will be your bat in the virtual field. You can make a good swing or rotation of your hand with the remote and it will look and feel like the player is making a warming up for the next pitch.

With real baseball games you love in your mind when playing with the baseball for the Wii, the entire game will be not too bad. In fact, you might really get lost in the game and feel like one of the Baby Ruth’s who can take on the world. Play now and experience the fun you would have not miss for anything in this world!

The world of Zelda walkthrough for Wii will basically focus on Hyrule. The thing is to know what is happening in the land each time the twilight envelops the country. Locals of the country are vanishing and will never be heard of from that night. No one will ever know what really is happening until Zelda comes and conquer the unconquerable nightmare in this rich and historic country of Hyrule. Little by little, the Zelda walkthrough for Wii will surely make your mind think the unthinkable and bring your reflexes to new found moves!

But before all that, you just earned an introduction to the main character of the game. The hero of Zelda walkthrough for Wii is a young boy who is oblivious to what he is about to face in the future. Zelda is never known to what he could become and you will help him become whatever he is destined to be as he does the walkthrough the lost souls in Hurle. Most importantly, you are going to discover first the beast that lurks inside of him than Zelda himself. So unveil the magic that is kept in the Twilight Realm of Zelda’s walkthrough in Hurle!

The Zelda walkthrough for Wii will let you discover three things all through out the game. One is to learn the basics and fundamentals in the upcoming trials. By doing so, you will be able to help Zelda unlock the secret of Hurle. Next is using these fundamentals as you discover how to tackle the temple and its bosses as the game progresses. And lastly, you will found all about the secrets where to find heart pieces and poes! With this new in the best selling lineage of epic quests and games, you will surely find the best time for your idle moments!

The Wii fit tracker is developed by Nintendo as an exercise video game to be featured in Wii. It is played by providing simple but crucial information like the player’s height and weight. This can be done by using the balance board as a body mass calculator. It gets the user’s weight and center of balance to calculate the body mass index of the participant. This information will make the Wii fit tracker make a good notion of which of the 40 exercises will be used for the entire duration of the exercise game.

Depending on the need of a certain player, the Wii fit tracker will make the calculations of how many repetitions and sets of different activities will be applied to a player. Some of these will be really physical and rough like push ups, strength exercises, balance exercises, aerobic exercises, and yoga poses. The users can even make use of the Wii menu where they will be able to compare fitness results anytime of the day and during the entire session. By using the entire benefits of the Wii fit tracker, any user will surely be able to come up with the right fitness program and body mass index they are yearning for.

Nintendo’s brainchild Wii fit tracker is now in the market as a series. First debut on December 1, 2007 in Japan, the entire series is now out around the world. Who wouldn’t want to own a home fitness gym in a compact size? To date, it has already sold around 14 million copies at a retail price of $89.99 US dollars and its equivalent in other regions and countries. All in all, the game has already earned a total of $ 1.26 billion revenues to Nintendo.

Wii has become one of the most enticing gaming products not only to kids but across all ages. Depending on the game that you favor, you can surely find one that suits. You can play indoor or outdoor games, team and single games, or just whatever you like! One of the most famous is the Wii blackjack that everyone really loves to play! With Wii, you don’t have to worry about the legality of the game anywhere you are in the world and who you are going to play with. All you need is the Wii and its console, and the game begins!

Blackjack is the most played casino card game in the web. This time, all you will need is Wii and the ware of Wii blackjack and you are in the game room instantly! This has been made possible through the use of Wiiware. This includes detailed characters, true-to-life animations, and intelligence that are designed to beat any player. The game includes a 3D interface table and 2D interface game cards. With this impressive animation of Wii blackjack, one can truly feel like being in a game room with blackjack players and contenders.

The Wii blackjack can be played with the Wii remote system. Point and click on the right game cards and press the hot keys to place bets. Another way of playing the Wii blackjack is by using its remote motion controls to hit, or to stand, or even in placing the bets all throughout the game. Any of these will make any player feel like really in the game room and playing with real contenders of all sorts. On top of that, anyone will be able to play in the serenity of your home. And you can even play with anyone in the ware or with the rest of your friends or family.

The Wii blackjack is published by the well-known publisher of impressive and true-to-life looking computer games and software—high Voltage Software. The same also developed it under the card games genre and made available for teens. But this does not mean that only teens are qualified to play, young and old alike can play this 4-player card game. Since the Wii blackjack debut in May 12, 2008, it has become one of the most sought after Wii ware and games in the electronic gaming industry. So why settle for small and unrealistic blackjack games when you can play it with Wii?