Tiger Woods

- Has Wii MotionPlus
- All very happy about the game
- Exclusive on it tomorrow
- Everyone who has been hoping for great 1:1 - it’s arrived
- There’s another mode they can’t talk about
- Videos, screens tomorrow
- Grand Slam Tennis coverage this week as well

MadWorld

- People were complaining about the text in the review
- Gave it an 8.0
- Matt really liked the game
- The great game of the year so far on Wii
- Lived up to most of the hype
- Gorgoues game, fun to play
- Scared no one will buy the game
- Say every week how companies are watching this game, House of the Dead, will watch The Conduit
- National Institute on Media and the Family issued a press release saying they are disappointed with Nintendo

Excitebots

- First trailer went up yesterday
- A lot of readers are knocking the game
- Looks like Excite Trucks with robots
- IGN Nintendo team thinks it looks good
- Looks like it still keeps the core mechanics of Excite Trucks
- Coming up right around the corner (next month)

GTA: Chinatown Wars

- Craig got it today
- Has only played about an hour so far
- Will be playing it over the course of the week
- Review on Monday
- Bozon says it’s surprisingly smooth, looks great - first time he saw it in action
- Cars flip in the air with physics
- Don’t have to car-jack every car
- Has motorcycles, slow trucks, fast cars
- There is a helicopter but unclear if you can pilot it, same deal with the jet
- Angle works well

New Play Control! Mario Power Tennis

- Used to be great, not now
- Took motion controls that aren’t as good as Wii Sports Tennis and combined it with Mario Power Tennis
- Probably was a rushed job
- Controls are not consistent
- Matt bummed that Nintendo chose this game but Metroid is still in Japan
- Matt wouldn’t be surprised if it was one of the best sellers this year because of Mario, tennis, with Wii remote
- Dismantled the original control scheme - can’t play with Classic Controller

New Play Control! Pikmin

- Done pretty well
- Pointer feels really good
- Good sign of things to come for the franchise
- Matt Will recommend it in the review
- Widescreen
- Pointer feels really tight
- Already a great game that is made better
- If you’ve already played it, it’s a must-own - if you have it, it’s worth checking out again

Resident Evil event

- Event being held during the launch of Resident Evil 5
- Teased that an announcement will make Nintendo fans happy about
- Matt says “Eh”
- They know what it is already
- Daemon thinks people will be interested but don’t give your hopes up too high
- It’s not terrible, people won’t be like “WTF”
- Bozon says the hype-level is already too high
- From what they’ve heard, you can be excited for it, but don’t overhype yourselves
- Clue: Bozon will be happy

Gradius ReBirth

- Another new retro game
- Doesn’t really do anything different
- If you die you lose everything
- It’s a fun blast from the past
- Daemon gave it a 7
- People who like retro stuff should check it out
- $10 - a little too much

Mighty Flip Champs

- DSiWare game
- It’s a cool puzzle game
- Top screen - main character traverse puzzle
- Bottom screen - invert of the puzzle
- Hit a button and the screen flips - navigate through the world
- Brain goes through a seizure process in some of the levels - it’s a good thing
- Trying to get it out for launch

Avalon Code

- Daemon really liked it
- Unique action RPG
- Comes from XSEED
- Revolves around book of prophecy
- Anything you encounter in the world can be recorded, then you can mess with its properties
- Action RPG fans should check it out

Reader questions

- Cave Story should be coming out next month or May
- Lack of N64 games could be related to lack of space on Wii
- Camelot always talks about Golden Sun but they don’t have anything to show for it - but we don’t know what they’re working on now
- EA Grand Slam Tennis - Can create your own character but no Miis
- At least a variation of co-op jenga game in the new Boom Blox
- Thursday: EA Tennis with Wii MotionPlus, Tiger Woods, EA Active, a few other games at EA event
- NST still around but Matt hears that they’ve been having issues
- Codemasters may still own the rights to the original Micro Machines game - games that have a liscene attached probably won’t come out on the VC or have a premium
- Should get NPC! Pikmin even though NPC! Pikmin 2 could be on the way - NPC! Pikmin 2 not even announced for NA yet
- Bozon didn’t receive his PES review copy yet

Real Heroes: Figherfighters

- Has a terrible name
- Actually not a bad title
- It’s a FPS but put out fires
- Has squad-based stuff
- It’s a pretty good game

Henry Hatsworth

- Going to be really good
- Nintendo Team wants you to buy it
- Humor really great in the game
- Plays very well

- Didn’t post The Conduit stuff because they never got it - plan to post it later this week
- Cool video of Deadly Creatures will be up eventually
- Guy who attacked Matt over MadWorld review apologized (after Matt emailed him back) and asked for a reply back (after threatening to kill Matt’s family)

Bookmarked for tomorrow.

Dammit! Beat me by 1 minute!

I'm interested to see what this Resident Evil: Dark Side Chronicles is all about.

WHHHAAAAATTT!!!???

what happened?

someone explain?

mad over a 9.0? wow

@OP: They gave MadWorld a 9.0, not an 8.0 XD

@Paperdiego: Guy got mad at Matt for saying that people should buy the game.

@thekitchensink
Its UC sequel. Read my latest post at the other thread. These people suck as at summarizing which is why you should listen to it instead. It clearly points out what it is.

Confirmed UC2.

If this is true then my support of Capcom and the Resident Evil series is gone. Plantinum Games and HVS have come and kicked Capcom's butt on the Wii as well as most major third parties like EA and Ubisoft.

so the new RE game for wii is a rails shooter then?

thanks for the summary

a little disappointed about New Play Control! Mario Power Tennis :(