Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles
The Zombies are back, and it’s time to take them on, Wii-style!
In Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, you’ll be returning to the terrifying Resident Evil universe, as you fight your way through events and characters from three of the Resident Evil games, including Resident Evil 0, the original Resident Evil, and Resident Evil 3: Nemesis.
The environments are primarily in Raccoon City, where RE 2 and 3 took place, but you’ll also have the chance to once again explore the huge mansion from RE 0 and the first RE – plus a new mission at the Umbrella complex.
As you play through the game, you are learning about the last hours of the sinister Umbrella Corporation, and finding out brand new information about all of the Resident Evil games, and finding new sidepaths and objectives.
While Umbrella Chronicles is sometimes referred to as a “light gun game”, meaning it works beautifully with a Wii Zapper or Perfect Shot Gun, it’s also completely possible and in fact easily played through with the standard Wiimote and Nunchuck combo.
The Nunchuck works really well to help you glance all around your surroundings, and the Wiimote is ideally suited to hold straight out and blast those zombies away.
You can even use the Wiimote to not only shake off a zombie who grabs you, but to do a punishing counterattack on it. The first person perspective for the game makes it eerily realistic and lets you view the game’s world in a whole new way.
Your standard weapons include the knife (just swing the Wiimote to slice away), and the handgun, which comes equipped with infinite ammo – but with monsters like these, you’ll want the other strong weapons you can pick up along the way such as the grenades and the machine gun.
You’ll be able to play with many of your favorite characters from all of the RE games, including Jill and Chris Valentine, Rebecca Chambers and Billy Coen.
Even after you finish the game, you’ll want to replay it repeatedly to discover all the secret pathways and hidden items. The two-player co-op mode is a fantastically fun way for you and a friend to battle the undead side by side, and have a great time exploring the game together.
Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles is a chance to see the RE world in a whole new way, and discover all the secrets you’ve always wondered about- and don’t forget to blast away the evil zombies while you’re at it!
Super Mario Galaxy
In this Super Mario adventure for the Wii, Mario takes to space for the first time ever.
Princess Peach has not only been kidnapped by Bowser again, but her whole castle has been taken and sent into outer space! It’s up to Mario to save her, and he will visit strange planets, zoom through space weightlessly, and still perform his traditional jumps and attacks.
When Mario journeys to outer space, he has a spaceship that serves as the game’s central area, and has doorways which lead you to 42 unique galaxies.
Each of the galaxies contain at least six challenges to face, and you’ll need to use all the Mario skills you recall from prior games, along with some fantastically fun news ones.
Mario has the most transformations ever – special mushrooms allow him to wear a bee suit, a boo suit, or a spring suit, each with it’s own special abilities.
With Mario now in space, the normal physics just don’t apply anymore – you’ll fly, glide, and spin through stars, feeling so natural you’ll know that Mario was meant for outer space! Star collection is a tradition for our hero Mario, and you’ll find stars in all these new galaxies, with 60 stars needed to complete the game.
There are, however, actually 120 stars total, and you will want to grab them all because there are secret unlockable levels you won’t want to miss.
The Wii remote and Nunchuck controllers are used to incorporate true motion control in the game – you’ll use the controls to tilt as you fly Mario, to spin as you perform his new spin attack, and to perform triple jumps, running, and to do all of them as combos as well. You will drag and drop items, and have complete control with immediate response.
Mario feels so responsive to the controls that you’ll be thrilled with the split second reactions. You and a friend can join the adventure together as you play the co-op mode, collecting Star bits and shooting enemies in tandem.
Super Mario Galaxy is the biggest and best adventure that Mario has had yet. It’s an adventure too big to be contained on earth!
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga
For the first time ever, you can play through events from all six of the Star Wars movie, in one game.
With brightly colored graphics and cute lego-styled characters, you’ll love the beautiful backgrounds and the huge Star Wars world. You’ll get to be in on the negotiations with the Trade Federations as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn, and to take part in the super fast racing action as you pursue bounty hunter Zam Wessell from Episode II. Even the Return of the Jedi’s epic space battle above Endor is included.
You’ll be playing through the areas in many ways: traveling to the next area on foot, whizzing through space as you pilot a ship, engaging in huge battles as you swing your light saber toward victory.
There are six segments, each one representing one film in the Star Wars series. Within those six segments, there are 36 story mode levels. With this much story, you’ll be deeply involved in the Star Wars universe for a very long time, even with just the single player game! You can always have a friend join in anytime in cooperative mode – one of the best things about this two-player game is that a friend can drop in and join the action whenever they want!
All of your favorite characters from the previous Lego Star Wars series have returned, with a few new ones, like Watto and Boss Nass, as well. In fact, you’ll have a massive character roster: over 160 unique characters!
The powers in the game have been upgraded and are more fun than ever to use, and you’ll really feel the force as you swing your Wii remote and watch your onscreen light saber respond instantly.
The Lego theme really adds a bit of extra fun, as you’ll get to watch funny animations like Chewbacca popping the arms off of his Lego enemies. The Lego pieces also serve a very useful in-game function as they’ll help you to advance as you build bridges or even vehicles with them.
Even after you think you’ve done everything in the game, you’ve really only just begun-this game has a huge amount of bonus stages, extras, and fun secrets. Don’t miss the hidden go-kart track on Dagobah, one of the real secret gems of the game.
Star Wars fans have always dreamed about living the movies-here is your chance to use the Force to save the universe!
Resident Evil 4 for Wii
In this fourth installment of the survival-horror masterpiece Resident Evil, you’ll be taking on the role of Leon Kennedy, who we haven’t seen since his rookie cop days in Resident Evil 2. Things have really changed now, and Leon is a confident federal agent who is given a top-priority assignment.
The president’s daughter, Ashley, has been kidnapped and rumor has it she was taken to an isolated foreign country. Leon has been assigned to recover her before her time runs out – but it’s a much bigger task than he had imagined. Soon after he is dropped off at the village where the game begins, he is attacked by a person who does not seem quite human – and he has friends.
This is the first Resident Evil game with no zombies at all – unfortunately for Leon, these things might just be worse. They look human, but they act possessed and are full of murderous rage. They are far smarter than zombies, though, as they will use any available weapons including pitchforks and hatchets to come after you.
As the game progresses, you’ll play as Leon and have full access to his standard weapons, and the ability to earn more. Some later stages will have you playing as Ashley, and you’ll have to use smart strategy,and coordinate with Leon to help escape together.
New to RE4 is the ability to earn money, called pesetas,which you’ll be able to use to purchase new weapons and ammo. You’ll still come across the occasional weapon scattered throughout the game – but mainly you’ll be upgrading your weapons as you decide, and when money allows.
Fighting the creatures has a whole new feel, because the Wiimote and Nunchuck make it more instinctive than ever before. Targeting is as simple as pressing the trigger button on the Wiimote to precisely zoom in, and pressing a button to fire. Reloading is easier than ever, just aim and shake down once and you’re reloaded and ready to go.
Resident Evil 4 for the Wii has all the extra modes that it’s predecessors had, including the extra assignments like Assignment: Ada. Although Ada Wong appears in the RE4 game and spars with Leon, she is not truly a playable character until you play through her bonus Assignment. Since her character plays completely different than Leon, this adds lots of fun and replay value.
Play through the game on various difficulty levels to earn bonuses like extra character costumes, and to try for 100% completion – only experts will be able to collect every item!
Get ready for the scariest survival horror you can imagine – if you thought the zombies were bad, wait until you see the un-zombies!
Call Of Duty IV: World At War
Call of Duty 4: World At War uses the excellent Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare engine as a basis for building this all new World War II adventure game.
Experience the amazingly realistic harsh, gritty combat and sheer chaos that was World War II. Playing as US Marines and Russian soldiers, you’ll use weapons with mind-blowing power, such as the flamethrower. Just shake your Nunchuck for a quick reload, and use your Wii remote for an all out melee attack!
Make the gameplay experience even more realistic with the Wii Zapper – it’s not required, but this awesome gun-shell peripheral really ramps up the combat fun, and you can play through 100 % of the game with the Wii Zapper if you choose.
The huge environments allow plenty of places to explore, hide, and practice your sniping skills. Multiplayer modes really allow you to get into the action, and fight right alongside your friends. Playing at home, you can choose squadmate mode, where you and a friend play in a split screen mode, providing cover for each other and tackling enemies as a team.
The online Multiplayer action is tremendously intense, as you tackle huge battles with people from all over the world via WiFi connection. The experience points system lets you unlock new secret weapons, and earn other great rewards, like the chance to call in air strikes.
Go to war in the most photo-realistic battle game ever!
