40 hours gameplay for a WiiWare game? Yes please! The Westerner has just been announced claiming just that. Press release and first video here…
THE WESTERNER, A FULL ADVENTURE WITH MORE THAN 40 HOURS OF PURE GAMEPLAY FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY, ONLY AVAILABLE ON WiiWARE.
Fenimore Fillmore, the most awarded and fun cowboy, is starring the videogame “The Westerner” once again, for WiiTM system from Nintendo®.
[Madrid, Spain] – Revistronic is launching “Fenimore Fillmore – The Westerner”, its acclaimed adventure set in the Far West for Wii system from Nintendo for the very first time, through its WiiWareTM digital downloading system.
Enjoy now from the comfort of your own sofa, an adventure for the whole family with coloured and 3D graphics in which, through a simple method of “pointing and click”, the player will get in Fenimore Fillmore’s shoes, a crazy cowboy with a great sense of humour, immersed in an outrageous dispute between stockbreeders and farmers.
Sega, Konami and others have let loose what games they will be showing at this years Tokyo Games Show. I’m a bit disappointed with the lack of 3DS games!
Sega
Sonic Colors
Shiren the Wanderer 5
Konami
Zac to Ombra: Maboroshi no Yuuenchi
Magician’s Quest: The Merchant’s Store of Sorcery
Metal Fight Beyblade
Momotaro Dentetsu World
Just in time for the release of Metroid: Other M comes this timeline of previous Metroid releases starting way back in 1986!
HAVING A BLAST! THE ORIGINAL FEMALE STAR OF GAMING
-The history of Samus Aran and the Metroid franchise-
Years before the introduction of 3D gaming, the original action heroine was already ripping up the rule book and blasting her way into history. The Metroid series has given us over twenty years of girl power and the series has sold over 15 million games, thanks to its female bounty hunter star, Samus Aran.
In the mid-1980s, a young game designer called Shigeru Miyamoto was busy revolutionising the industry with Mario and a young adventurer named Link. But while he created these masterpieces, Yoshio Sakamoto and the legendary R&D1 team at Nintendo were working on one of the most ambitious projects ever seen.
Metroid: Other M – Wii – 9
Shank – 8
Valkyria Chronicles II – 8
Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty – 9
R.U.S.E. – 8
Dead Rising 2: Case Zero – 6
Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days – 7
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light – 7
Limbo – 8
Mafia II – 8
Castlevania: Harmony of Despair – 7
Arc Rise Fantasia – 74%
Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow – 68%
Cats and Dogs: Revenge of Kitty Galore – 48%
Fire Emblem: Shin Monshou no Nazo – 75%
Galaxy Racers – 32%
Harvest Moon: Futago no Mura – 74%
Inazuma Eleven 3 – 70%
Lost in Shadow – 83%
Mega Man Zero Collection – 73%
Metroid: Other M – 87%
Ok! Puzzle Stars – 56%
Samantha Swift and the Hidden Roses of Athena – 58%
Satisfashion: Rock the Runaway – 40%
The Last Airbender – 35%
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – 39%
The Treasures of Montezuma – 42%
Think Smart Kids – 42%
Vampire Legends: Power of Three – 34%
Wii Party – 61%
We Sing – 54%
These snippets of developers comments about the 3DS come from the last issue of Nintendo Power.
Goichi Suda (Suda 51) – President & director, Grasshopper Manufacture:
“My first impressions of it was, ‘This is the toy of the future.” You can feel just how far and how fast games have evolved when you see the Nintendo 3DS. We’ve entered an era where we can bring worlds that we can almost touch and feel to life. Thus far, 3D has only been expressed with 2D. I think we’ve graduated from that and reached an age of expressing real depth through 3D with the 3DS.”
Matt Bozon – Creative director, WayForward
“I’ve stood in line for a lot of Nintendo unveils over the years, but even expecting to be amazed, seeing the Nintendo 3DS in person induced a sort of visual shell-shock. The system is as hypnotic as Turkish Delight and looks like a Hogwarts newspaper. The demos that showed games, movies, and photography in the third dimension had to be seen firsthand to be truly appreciated, with elements popping off the glass or dipping into the distance. When my play time was over and the friendly (but strong) Nintendo lady wrenched the system away, my phone, laptop, and other devices became flat, boring wastes of Z-space by comparison. But what excites me the most about this fancy pants is that it’s in the hands of Nintendo, so the games are going to be as brilliant as the machine itself. Can! Not! Wait!”
