Top Wii Games

Delivering the largest on-disc set list in a music-rhythm game to-date, Guitar Hero: World Tour for Wii is comprised entirely of master recordings from some of the greatest classic and modern rock bands of all-time including Van Halen, Linkin Park, The Eagles, Sublime and many more. Additionally, Guitar Hero: World Tour for Wii offers significantly more localised downloadable music than ever before on all of the next-generation consoles. Budding rock stars will also be given creative license to fully customise everything in Guitar Hero: World Tour for Wii, from their characters’ appearance and instruments to their band’s logo and album covers.

Guitar Hero World Tour transforms music gaming by expanding Guitar Hero’s signature guitar gameplay into a cooperative band experience that combines advanced wireless instruments with online and offline gameplay modes including online Band Career and 8-player “Battle of the Bands,” which allows two full bands to compete head-to-head online. The game features a Music Studio music creator that lets players compose, record, edit and share their own rock ‘n’ roll anthems.

The character creator allows gamers to create a rock star with style as unique as their own. Absolute customization from the clothes, to the facial and body structure, to the tattoos and accessories, players are encouraged to unleash their inner rock legend. The Rock Star Creator doesn’t just allow players to build the ultimate rock god; the in-depth creators include the ability to customize guitars, drums and microphones. Adding yet another layer of personalization, gamers can create custom logos for their instruments, band, or album covers.

Guitar Hero World Tour Track Listing

• 311 - Beautiful Disaster
• Airbourne - Too Much Too young…
• Anouk - Good God
• At the Drive-in - One Armed Scissor
• Beastie Boys - No Sleep ’till Brooklyn
• Beatsteaks - Hail to the Freaks
• Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
• Blink 182 - Dammit
• Blondie - One Way or Another
• BLS - Stillborn
• Bob Seger - Hollywood Nights
• Bon Jovi - Livin on a prayer
• BRMC - Weapon of Choice
• Bullet For My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire
• CCR - Up Around The Bend
• Coldplay - Shiver
• Dino Jr. - Feel the pain
• Dream Theater - Pull Me Under
• Filter - Hey man Nice shot
• Fleetwood Mac - Go your own way
• Foo Fighters - Everlong
• Hush Puppies - You’re Gonna say yeah
• Interpol - Obstacle1
• Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze Live
• Jimi Hendrix - Wind Cries Mary
• Joe Satriani - Satch Boogie
• Kent - Vinternoll 2
• Korn - Freak on a Leash
• Lacuna Coil - Our Truth
• Lenny Kravitz - Are you gonna go my way
• Linkin Park - What I’ve Done
• Los Lobos - La Bamba
• Lost Prophets - Rooftops
• Mars Volta - L’Via L’Viaquez
• MC5 - Kick out the jams
• Metallica - Trapped under ice
• Michael Jackson - Beat It
• Modest Mouse - Float On
• Motorhead - Overkill
• Muse - Assassin
• Negramaro - Nuvole
• Nirvana - About a Girl
• No Doubt - Spiderwebs
• NOFX - Soul Doubt
• Oasis - Some Might Say
• Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
• Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley
• Paramore - Misery Business
• Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker
• Radio Futura - Escuela De Calor
• REM - The One I Love
• Rise Against - Re-education…
• Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant
• Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye
• Steve Miller - The Joker
• Sting - Demolition Man
• Stuck in the sound - Toy Boy
• Sublime - Santeria
• Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
• System of a Down - BYOB
• Ted Nugent - Stranglehold
• The Answer - Never Too Late
• The Cult - Love Removal Machine
• The Doors - Love me two times
• The Eagles - Hotel California
• The Enemy - Aggro
• The Guess Who - American Woman
• The Living End - Prisoner of Society
• The Stone Roses - Love Spreads
• Tokio Hotel - Monsoon
• Trust - Anti-social
• Willie Nelson - On the road again
• Wings - Band on the Run
• Van Halen - Hot for Teacher

If none of these tracks catch your fancy (!) jump into the “Mii Freestyle” game play mode that is unique to the Wii. Create Blues, Rock or Metal masterpieces by yourself, or join with friends to jam freely together on guitar controllers and the drum kit controller.

Guitar Hero: World Tour for Wii’s innovative new Music Studio lets players express their musical creativity by giving them access to a full compliment of tools to create digital music from scratch, utilising all of the instruments, and then play their compositions in the game. Music creators will also be able to share their Guitar Hero: World Tour Wii recordings with their friends online through GHTunes where other gamers can download their unique compositions and play them.

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Marvel: Ultimate Alliance is an all-new action/RPG where players create their Marvel dream team from the largest roster of Super Heroes ever in an epic quest that will determine the fate of Earth and the Marvel universe. For decades, Earth’s Super Heroes have opposed evil in their own cities, and on their own terms. But now, Dr. Doom and a newly reformed Masters of Evil – the greatest collection of Super Villains ever assembled – have plans for world domination, and the heroes must band together to defeat them. Playing as some of the most revered Marvel characters, gamers will embark on a dangerous journey across exotic terrain and well-known comic book locations like Atlantis, the Shield Heli-Carrier and the Skrull home world in an attempt to defy the world’s most notorious Super Villains. Created by Raven Software, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance lets players control the most powerful Super Hero alliance the world has ever known.

Experience the full scale of the Marvel universe with a combined cast of over 140 popular comic book characters. Players create, customize and control their ultimate four-person strike team, selecting from an initial roster of 20 playable Super Heroes, including Spider-Man, Wolverine, The Thing, Captain America, Elektra and Thor – and battle notorious Super Villains including Dr. Doom, Galactus and countless others.

With new and dynamic combat capabilities, Super Heroes can now fight while airborne, on the ground, and even submerged underwater as they traverse through 17 exotic locales and play out some of the most legendary comic book battles from the Marvel universe. Players will have access to a host of fighting tactics and accessories, including melee combat moves such as grappling, blocking and quick combos, new chargeable Super Hero powers, more environmental objects that can be used as weapons, and unique one and two-handed weapons.

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Geometry Wars: Galaxies sees you blast your way through all-new battle grids, develop your new Battle Drone and blast through relentless waves of enemies in first-ever Geometry Wars single-player campaign. Geometry Wars: Galaxies also lets you join a friend for fast-paced multiplayer that’s out of this world!

Geometry Wars: Galaxies also includes the full version of Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved, winner of IGN’s Best XBLA Title of The Year.

Geometry Wars: Galaxies Features

• Extensive Single Player Gameplay, Expands the Geometry Wars universe with Galaxies: an original, solar systems based, single player campaign with new and dynamic planet battle-grids.
• All-New Multiplayer Mode, For the first time ever play multiplayer Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved. Play in many ways with or against your friends in the exciting multiplayer Geometry Wars world
• New Battle Drone, Geometry Wars: Galaxies introduces the all-new Battle Drone and Geom currency. By using Geoms to purchase upgrades, the player will be able to develop the characteristics and personality of the drone, aiding the journey through battle-torn and increasingly aggressive galaxies
• New Enemies and Weapons, Geometry Wars: Galaxies will have even more enemies and weapons to maximiae high scores that can be placed on the Nintendo Wii online leader boards
• Wii and DS Linked Content, Unlock new content when you link up your DS and Wii versions together. Combine high scores for Elite leaderboard rankings

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You never thought it would turn out like this an all-out chase where you’re the hunted. And the hunter. Now you must get behind the wheel and risk everything to infiltrate a ruthless international crime syndicate and take them down. The man you’re after is a maniac behind the wheel, and he’s driving like his life depends on escape, which maybe it does. He’s the one with all the answers you need, you will track him down. Needless to say, that fleet of police cruisers in your rearview mirror won’t make things any easier. It will take all of your experience and every ounce of skill to outrun the law, take down the enemy, and unlock the truth that puts an end to this chase once and for all.

Need For Speed: Undercover

• Go Deep Undercover - Race into an action-packed story of pursuit and betrayal. Take on jobs and compete in races to prove yourself as you infiltrate and take down an international crime syndicate.
• Highway Battle - Fight off the cops and others as you take down your prey in high-speed, high stake multi-car chases. New and vastly improved AI mechanics mean more aggressive and intelligent cops focused on taking you out fast and by any means necessary.
• Own the Open World - Tear across the massive highway system and discover the open world of the Gulf Coast Tri-Cities area, with three unique cities connected by an extensive highway system.
• Heroic Driving Engine - An all-new game engine lets you pull off amazing moves for the ultimate driving edge.
• Party Play - Race, chase and outdrive your friends in 2 or 4 Player Mode through classic races like sprints and circuits, and all new challenges like The Heist! and Cops & Robbers modes.

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Call of Duty: World at War completely changes the rules of engagement by thrusting players into the final tension-filled, unforgiving battles against a new ferocious enemy in the most dangerous and suspenseful action ever seen in WWII.

The game is primarily set in the Pacific theatre and has a much more realistic, violent tone requiring less-linear game play than previous Call of Duty installments. You’ll struggle to survive Japanese attacks without mastering new gaming skills, like swimming or how to use a flamethrower–a weapon that packs some punch in the fully destructable game world.

Also featured is a campaign on the Eastern front, where you take control of a soldier in the Soviet Red Army during the attack on Berlin in the closing stages of the war. The game also includes the series’ first co-op mode, while the competitive multiplayer mode aims to build upon the achievements of Call of Duty 4 and add to the game’s longevity.

Call of Duty Features

• Final Battles: Call of Duty: World at War forces players to survive the final climactic days of a world at war to thwart the advance of Axis powers on multiple fronts from Europe to the Pacific - delivering the hallmark Call of Duty cinematic intensity on a worldwide scale. Play as a U.S. Marine or Russian conscript across a variety of European and Pacific infantry, vehicle and airborne missions.
• Co-Op Campaign Mode: “No One Fights Alone” takes on new meaning as players can complete the entire single-player campaign with up to four players online or two players via split-screen (both online and offline). Strategising with others provides gameplay diversity, replayability and engagement.
• Addictive Multiplayer: Call of Duty: World at War continues the addictive and leading class-based multiplayer action. The addition of vehicles to the highly-successful Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare multiplayer that already includes persistent experience, player rankings, upgradeable weapons, squad-based gameplay, map scripting, customisable classes and perks, brings a new dimension to Call of Duty online warfare.
• Unprecedented WWII Cinematic Quality: Utilising the jaw-dropping and revolutionary Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare engine, Call of Duty: World at War delivers an unprecedented level of visual and cinematic effects to WWII. Highly-detailed character models, self-shadowing, environmental lighting and amazing special effects up the WWII authenticity to new heights. Depth of field, rim-lighting and texture-streaming technology bring the adrenaline-pumping combat to life. Physics-enabled battlefields and destructible cover immerse players into the harrowing and dynamic combat.

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If you were given the keys to your own community, what would you do? Go fishing, collect shells or watch fireworks with friends? Build a snowman, exchange presents with family or decorate your house for the holidays? Take a trip to the city, go on a shopping spree or visit friends from all over the globe? In Animal Crossing: City Folk, life moves at a relaxed pace, but the world brims with endless possibilities.

You make the whole story, as you and up to three other players move into a town and just live life. Befriend your animal neighbors, decorate your house with cool furnishings, fill up your wardrobe, get to know the local wildlife, hop on a bus to visit the new city and just explore the world. There are a million different ways to play. Every charming animal character has a personality: some are grouches while others are chatterboxes. And there’s no final goal or high score to hit. The game keeps going for as long as you want to play, and your town will always be there when you return. Move into town, buy a house and then do whatever you want. Time and seasons pass as they do in the real world, so there’s always something different happening. Collect more than 2,400 items, go fishing for rare and interesting fish, catch all kind of cool bugs, dig up dinosaur fossils and buried treasure, hang out with other players or spend the day in the city. There’s so much to do, and you have all the time in the world to explore it all.

Animal Crossing Features

• There’s Always Something New To Do: In the living, breathing world of Animal Crossing: City Folk, days and seasons pass in real time, so there’s always something to discover. Catch fireflies in the summer, go trick-or-treating on Halloween or hunt for eggs on Bunny Day. If you’re in the mood for something a little faster paced, take a bus to a new urban city area that’s unique to Animal Crossing: City Folk. There you can catch a show at the theater or check out the sales at Gracie’s boutique. But if you don’t show your face back home for too long, your neighbors will miss you.
• Play With and Hear Up to Four Friends: Up to four people from your household can live and work together to build the perfect town. Design clothes and patterns, write letters and post messages on the bulletin board for each other, or play online using your broadband connection and invite up to three friends to visit your town using Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. With the new optional Wii Speak microphone (sold separately), it’s like you’re all in the same room. The microphone sits atop the sensor bar and picks up the conversation of everyone in the room to encourage a more inclusive experience.
• Get to Know Your Neighbors: The heart of Animal Crossing: City Folk is building relationships with the animals in your town as well as with other players. Befriend your animal neighbors by exchanging letters, gifts and favors. Animals can also move from town to town, bringing their memories and stories from their old towns with them. And since animals are notoriously loose-lipped, they spill all the juicy details.
• Express Your Personal Style: Customize your town, your house and yourself by collecting bugs, fish, fossils, art, furniture, clothes and accessories. You can also go to the salon in the city to change your hairstyle and get a Mii makeover. Plus, if you design clothes in the tailor’s shop, animals will wear them and maybe even bring them to other towns.

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Importantly, this isn’t just a slightly modified version of the PS3 and Xbox 360 titles. Shaun White Snowboarding Road Trip is a very different proposition, making the most of Wii’s unique control possibilities. Those who don’t own Wii Fit will be able to play along using the remote to steer their ‘boarder, but to get the full physical experience you’ve really got step on a Balance Board and get those muscles working.

The idea is to stand at right-angles to the TV, then use body movements to control the onscreen character as he plunges down the slopes. Pressing down with your back foot steers, pushing forward with the front foot accelerates and jumping is achieved by bending your knees and then straightening them quickly. Finally, hitting the remote’s A and B buttons in synchronisation with foot movements accesses those all-important tricks, flips and grabs. It’s a shame the game still requires you to hold the remote for this purpose, but the board handles key elements such as turning and acceleration extremely well.

Don’t expect to become an instant champion, though - this is a system that rewards patience. While the basic movements are fairly intuitive, pulling off the more awkward manoeuvres takes a bit of practice; attempting to place your feet correctly while hitting the right buttons AND watching the screen takes as much coordination as the real sport. Expect to get a faceful of snow or three during the learning process.

Shaun White Snowboarding Road Trip cleverly plays to all the strengths of the Wii. It uses the Balance Board, it feels sociable and intuitive, and it’s got just the right look, eschewing realistic visuals for a more cartoonish style, which should certainly appeal to the console’s family audience. Factor in an engaging if throwaway storyline and a superb soundtrack hand-picked by the frizzy-haired champ himself and you’ve got the best winter sports title in ages.

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Music games featuring expensive instrument shaped controllers are becoming commonplace in video games, but Nintendo’s new Wii Music promises to let you simulate more than 60 different instruments with nothing more than the Wii remote and nunchuck.

Unlike other music games, you don’t follow any onscreen icons but instead mime along to the music by holding the remote like a real instrument and pressing the buttons in time with the song. So, for example, when you’re playing saxophone you hold the remote vertically and press the buttons as you would on the real thing.

There are several game modes, but in most you play as part of a six-person band, either playing along with friends or controlling up to four of the band members at once on your own. Since no musical experience is necessary, all you need is a sense of rhythm and you can play any instrument available.

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Sonic Unleashed is built on a powerful new “Hedgehog Engine”, which introduces seamless 3D to classic 2D camera transitions, whilst delivering a rich and expansive world with multiple paths to choose from. Under development for three years, the Hedgehog Engine produces a visually rich next generation look and feel with elements of classic Sonic gameplay mechanics. The Hedgehog engine will help re-define the gameplay experience for Sonic fans and newcomers to the franchise alike.

“By combining rich and vibrant scenery with dynamic viewpoints Sonic Unleashed will provide an immersive 3D experience whilst keeping alive the 2D gameplay elements and fantastic worlds that Sonic fans know and love” commented Gary Knight, European Marketing Director for SEGA Europe. “In addition to this classic Sonic gaming experience, when darkness sets in Sonic Unleashed players will be able to experience a completely new way to play as Sonic… making this his most exciting adventure yet!”

Having been broken apart by the evil Dr Eggman, it’s down to Sonic to put the pieces of the world back together again by retrieving the power of the chaos emeralds. In doing so, Sonic will find himself in a race against time and faced with an unusual situation that will challenge him in ways never before seen. By completing a wide variety of action-packed stages, spanning the seven broken continents of the world, gamers will need to unleash Sonic’s amazing abilities to save the world, and himself!

The opportunity to engage in Sonic in different ways during the day and night time levels brings a completely original way of playing to the Sonic franchise, in addition to running at high speeds in classic Sonic style, combat fighting will become possible. Super quick Sonic’s speed skills will be highlighted by four new modes, whilst the all new combat, movement and functional abilities will offer depth and variety to the game. As the sun sets in Sonic Unleashed, a different type of adventure will awaken in Sonic’s newest quest….

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Samba De Amigo shakes its way onto the Wii with Samba-infused music and user friendly controls. Playing as the grinning, sombrero-topped monkey, Amigo, players shake the Wii Remote and Nunchuk -like maracas in time with visual cues of the music on-screen.

The perfect party game, Samba de Amigo is packed with lively stages and a host of colourful characters and is easy to pick up and play yet challenging for those who want to become a maraca master.

This vibrant and addictive party experience features a Samba-flavoured soundtrack comprised of popular new songs, as well as returning fan-favourites from the original rhythm music classic. Have fun watching or playing.

Samba de Amigo Features

• The gang’s all here: Enjoy cameos from a range of Sega characters and games, including Sonic the Hedgehog and Ulala from Space Channel 5.
• Samba de Mii: Have your Miis join the party and dance away in the background–the better you do the more animated they become.
• Mambo on demand: If you get tired of the 44 different songs on the game’s disc, there will be a regular series of extra downloadble tracks–a first for the Wii.
• Maracas hero: For the authentic maracas-shaking experience, the deluxe version of Samba de Amigo comes with special maraca-shaped attachments for your remotes.

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