In the vein of Squilliam's thread in the Microsoft forums, I thought it would be fun to discuss what ratings you think the Wii's hyped games for 2008 (insofar as the Wii has hyped games, in comparison to the HD consoles) will get on Metacritic once they're released. Predicting the scores of Wii games is much more of a challenge than games for the HD consoles because they're mainly new IP, but we'll see...

The Games [By no means a comprehensive list, but these are a cross-section of the most-touted 2008 Wii exclusives]

Animal Crossing: City Folk - The much-touted creature-sim/sandbox game in its Wii incarnation, including online play and voice chat.

Castlevania Judgment - A Castlevania-themed fighting game exclusive to the Wii.

Dead Rising: Chop 'Til You Drop - An improved version of the Xbox 360 fan favorite zombie game, featuring no time limits and controls taking advantage of the Wiimote.

Deadly Creatures - A bizarre action game where you play as a tarantula and a scorpion.

de Blob - A stylish action/puzzle game that at least looks really promising.

Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse - The fourth incarnation of Tecmo's horror series where you photograph ghosts with a magic camera. (It's much less stupid than it sounds.

Little King's Story - A kingdom sim/RPG developed by Cing [Hotel Dusk, Trace Memory].

Monster Lab - A dark, creature-sim RPG described as, "Pokemon meets Tim Burton."

Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars - An artsy action platformer about, uh, mushroom men.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - A multiplatform game, but the Wii version is the flagship version, featuring lightsaber Wiimore controls and extra levels.

Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World - The sequel to the Gamecube RPG; already released to mixed reviews in Japan.

Wario Land: Shake It! - A 2D platformer in the style of the GBC/GBA Wario Land games.

Wii Music - An iffy-looking music game that debuted ot hilarious results at this year's E3.

So, with that said, my predictions are:

Animal Crossing: 92%

Deadly Creatures: 87%

Dead Rising: 86%

Star Wars: 85%

Fatal Frame: 82%

de Blob: 82%

Wario Land: 80%

Little King's Story: 79%

Mushroom Men: 79%

Monster Lab: 77%

Tales of Symphonia: 76%

Wii Music: 72%

Castlevania: 68%

So, what are yours? Keep in mind that this is how you think the games will be reviewed, and not how you would like them to be reviewed.

Animal Crossing: City Folk- 85%
Deadly Creatures- 80%(will have mixed reviews however)
Dead Rising: Chop til Ya Drop- 60%(more than likely will be a lazy port and rated that way)
Star Wars: TFU- 85%(Wii edition is well made)
Fatal Frame IV- 85%
de Blob- 80%(the next "Zack and Wiki" type game in reviews)
Wario Land- 80%
Little King's Story- 75%
Mushroom Men- 70%
Monster Lab- 75%
Tales of Symphonia- 85%
Wii Music- 65%(misunderstood)
Castlevania- 60%(doomed thx to negative hype)

Pretty much agree, I think AC will be a bit higher, maybe 88%, but I don't see a AAA game in the bunch.

Animal Crossing: 88%

Deadly Creatures: 87%

Dead Rising: 82%

Star Wars: 82%

Fatal Frame: 84%

de Blob: 86%

Wario Land: 87%

Little King's Story: 86%

Mushroom Men: 81%

Monster Lab: 75%

Tales of Symphonia: 81%

Wii Music: 64%

Castlevania: 58%

Note: I think Wii Music is a fantastic idea. However, if we judge it using traditional game standards, it sucks.

Not a triple A game in there but a bunch of quality ones.  As long as reviewers are fair for once with Wii reviews.  But the only games that I think have a shot at AAA revies is Fatal Frame IV, Guitar Hero: World Tour, and Tales of Symphonia 2.  But I doubt any will get it.  There's a lot of smaller less known titles that have the potential but won't get the big reviews simply because they aren't big brand or big hyped up titles.  Shows you how awful reviewers can be at times.

Animal Crossing: City Folk - 83%
Deadly Creatures - 91%
Dead Rising - 83%
Star Wars - 85%
Fatal Frame - 86%
De Blob - 87%
Wario Land - 86%
Little King's Story - 76%
Mushroom Men - 75%
Monster Lab - 69%
Tales of Symphonia - 81%
Wii Music - 74%
Castlevania - 79% (I'm Optimistic)

Animal Crossing= 84%
Deadly Creatures=78%
Dead Rising= 79%
Star Wars:TFU= 79%
Fatal Frame 4= 82%
De Blob=83%
Wario Land=81%
Little King Story=74%
Mushroom Men=73%
Monster Lab=69%
Tales of Symphonia=84%
Wii Music= 62%!!! (Many Reviewers will hate it)
Castlevania Judgment=71%

Animal Crossing 89%
Deadly Creatures 83%
Dead Rising 76%
Star Wars:TFU 88%
Fatal Frame 4 80%
De Blob 86%
Wario Land 90% (I have a feeling)
Little King Story 79%
Mushroom Men 72%
Monster Lab 60%
Tales of Symphonia 85%
Wii Music 57%
Castlevania Judgment 60%

I don't know enough about most of these games to make real predictions, but I have a few thoughts on them.

Historically, Animal Crossing games generate a very wide spread of scores; there will be a bunch of 100s, but also some very low scores. If this one does the same I can't see it averaging to more than the mid-80s.

Just because of how the points systems used by many reviewers work, I think the cross platform games will end up getting hugely dinged for not looking as good as the HD version.

Based on the sorts of things the game media is saying about it already, expect Wii Music to get eaten alive by reviewers.

Animal Crossing: City Folk- 89%
Deadly Creatures- 79%
Dead Rising: Chop til Ya Drop- 72%
Star Wars: TFU- 83%
Fatal Frame IV- 88%
de Blob- 85%
Wario Land- 83%
Little King's Story- 78%
Mushroom Men- 75%
Monster Lab- 73%
Tales of Symphonia- 82%
Wii Music- 60%
Castlevania- 70%