New Racing Game for Nintendo Wii - Speedzone Trailer

[The Ghost of RubangB]

Roma said:

Naum said:
Looks pretty nice for an alpha video.

But I don't get this 8 player thing, 4 wiimotes and 4 nunchucks?

Yeah that was what I was thinking!

So you connect the nunchuck to the Wii mote but still give it to the other person *_?    

Yes.  This worked for Bust-A-Move on the Wii and it was total insanity.  8 players in the same room beats any amount of players online.

Avarice28 said:

waron said:
to people who still don't get it: 8 player splitscreen works only with for wiimotes with nunchucks - 4 people are driving with wiimotes and 4 people are driving with nunchucks.

So instead of letting 8 wii's be hooked up via lan they choose to allow 8 people to share 4 wii mote/nunchuck?!  That is a awful idea, why not allow four players to share one tv and four other players to share another tv over lan?  Or better yet set everyone up over the nintendos wifi service and allow eight people to compete with leaderboards and stat tracking like most modern racers have for the past two generations.  I love nintendo, but sometimes they miss the forest for the trees.

The more options the better, so splitscreen, LAN, and online would all be great.

But to be honest, I used to rock the 8 player Mario Kart Double Dash, and it was a huge hassle to get together 8 people, 2 GC's, 2 games, 8 controllers, 2 TV's, 2 GC connecting adapters, and 1 cable.  With the Wii you'd need to hook up 2 sensor bars to 2 TVs and need 2 copies of the game.  At least with this, the people who aren't LAN-savvy can still rock 8 players with 1 TV, 1 sensor bar, 4 controllers, and only 1 copy of the game.  But I agree with you and they should include as many options as possible.  I know my TV is big enough to handle 8 players, so I'll be keeping my eye on this.