My first impressions of Wii u.

[peachbuggy]

So, the Wii u is finally out in Europe, 2 weeks after North America. Man, were those 2 weeks torture! Not sure if anyone has done a thread about this yet but apologies if they have. Just wanted to share my Wii u experience so far with you all...

I picked it up Friday night so have had a weekend to form an opinion.
First of all when i got it home i had to do a software update. Wasn't too bad, only took an hour or so. First game we played was Nintendoland and very quickly we were all addicted to mario chase. It's so simple but incredibly fun in multiplayer. Minus point for Nintendoland though, in that we can't play Metroid or Zelda in multiplayer as motion pluses don't seem to be recognised. Very disappointing. Just dance was next. Not my cup of tea at all but was fun in puppet master mode. Got a bit bored with it in the end though. Then i had a bit of an explore of the multimedia capabilities of the gamepad and you can colour me impressed. Small touch but using it as a tv remote is cool. Browser is really good too. Using it now and works really well.

Sega all stars was next but that is a bit... meh! Good because i like racing games but it just seems as if not much effort was put into the port, especially control options and the fact that in single player you need the tv screen instead of being able to use gamepad screen. Finally we played Zombiu and i am ashamed to say i lasted about 20 seconds before getting killed! After about 20 minutes exploring, i passed the pad to someone who knew what they were doing and i have to say it looks amazing! when watching someone else play. Am going to give it another go but i am really terrible at games like that. Brilliant use of gamepad tho and atmosphere really intense.

Anyway, i got all this for 400 quid, thought i got a really good deal at game. Had to trade in loadsa games tho! First impressions are good but have some apprehension though i think that was caused by overdoing just dance 4!