Nintendo today officially announced details about several of its upcoming games for the Wii.
Wii Fit
The active-play phenomenon started by Wii Sports now spreads to your whole body thanks to the pressure-sensitive Wii Balance Board, which comes packed with Wii Fit. The board is used for an extensive array of fun and dynamic activities, including aerobics, yoga, muscle stretches and games. Many of these activities provide a "core" workout, a popular exercise method that emphasizes slower, controlled motions. Wii Fit will also get its own channel on the Wii Menu. Coming in the first half of 2008.
Mario Kart Wii
The new version of Mario Kart, due in early 2008, features new vehicles and lets players compete using Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Mario Kart launches with the Wii Wheel, a steering wheel housing for the Wii Remote that brings new controls and challenges for veteran gamers, while making getting into a race easy and intuitive for newcomers.
Super Mario Galaxy
Using the Wii Remote and Nunchuk, players navigate Mario through a series of planets, each with its own gravity, chaotic challenges and power-ups. The game bursts through the screen in vivid artistic detail, and a second player can even provide some assistance along the way. It blasts off November 12.
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Super Smash Bros. Brawl ups the ante with new characters, new moves and new arenas. The game smashes into North American stores December 3.
Wii Zipper
This new accessory combines the accuracy of the Wii Remote and Nunchuk in a single housing for a new experience for first-person shooters and targeting games. Players can hear the sounds of battle through the Wii Remote speaker when it is incorporated into the Wii Zapper. It arrives on store shelves later this year, packaged with Nintendo-developed software. The Wii
Zapper also will be used with a host of third-party games, including
Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles from Capcom, Ghost Squad from Sega and Medal of Honor from Electronic Arts.
Check Mii Out Channel
Launching in 2007, this free new channel builds on the phenomenon of Wii owners creating fun caricatures of themselves, their friends and celebrities. The two main components of the free channel include an area where users can post Miis they have created to let others vote on their artistic abilities, and a competition element that lets users test their skills to create the most accurate likeness of individuals or other themes suggested by Nintendo.
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
This final chapter of the Metroid Prime trilogy introduces unmatched first-person controls by letting players use the Wii Remote as an arm cannon for a feeling of complete immersion. Heroine Samus travels between planets to stop her nemesis, Dark Samus, from corrupting them. All the while Samus fights the spreading Phazon that is taking over her body while giving her incredible powers. It launches August 27.
More to come
Other Nintendo titles launching this year for Wii include
Mario Strikers Charged (July 30), Donkey Kong Barrel Blast (Oct. 8),
Battalion Wars 2 (Oct. 29), Endless Ocean (Oct. 29) and Fire
Emblem (Nov. 5).
Upcoming third-party game titles
By the end of the year, about 100 new Wii games will hit stores. Among these, EA brings Boogie and EA Playground, as well as online action for its Madden NFL and FIFA Soccer franchises.
Mario and Sonic team up for the first time ever in Sega's Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, and Sega also shows off dreamy aerial acrobatics with NiGHTS Journey of Dreams.
Activision jams with Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, while Namco Bandai puts the battle blade into players' hands with SoulCalibur Legends. Disney Interactive belts out High School Musical: Sing It!, and Square Enix brings Dragon Quest Swords in early 2008.
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