Nerf N-Strike (EA) $59.99
This non-gory, sci-fi shooting gallery game comes packed with the new Switch Shot EX-3, which is both a traditional foam-dart spewing Nerf gun and a Wii Remote-coddling gun-shaped casing so you can shoot things harmlessly in real life or up there on the TV screen. Heck, go Elvis: Shoot the TV. Rated Everyone (10+) for fantasy violence.
Animal Crossing: City Folk (Nintendo) $49.99 or $69.99 w/mic
Wholesome off- and online social community of simulated people where users interact, play games, play dress-up, play stockbroker (with turnips), participate in scheduled real-time activities (catch a Sunday matinee, hunt eggs at Easter, etc.), share/trade virtual baubles. It's the first game to feature "Wii Speak" online voice chat with a special conference-call-like microphone (bundled or sold separately for $30). Rated Everyone (6+) for comic mischief.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Light Saber Duels (LucasArts) $49.99
A game only a kid could love, Star Wars The Clone Wars Light Saber Duels is unrefined, imaginary swordplay made incarnate by holding the Wii Remote controller (Wii-mote) like the hilt of a light saber and then waggling it about to vaguely actuate on-screen actions of Jedi and Sith. For truly authentic whack-your-partner play, the Thrustmaster Glow Saber Duo Pack (34.99) offers a pair of plastic LED-powered swords with snap-in slots to accommodate a Wii-mote each, just for this game. Rated Teen (13+) for fantasy violence.
Wii Music (Nintendo) $49.99
Best described as Guitar Hero for dummies, Wii Music is all about play-along air-musicianship with no scoring and no real points other than gather 'round and blow, strum, strike or otherwise waggle some 40-odd different virtual instruments using just the Wii's motion-sensitive controllers; no separate game-specific peripherals required. It makes for decent family fun in Nintendo's patented Wii Sports sort of way, but no more sophisticated than a rousing round of Cowbell Hero. Rated Everyone (6+).
Think Fast (Disney) $49.99
As a Wii game, Disney certainly has a target demographic in mind with this all-Disney, all-the-time trivia game for up to four players or groups. Whoever has seen, played or spent the most money on Disney products over the years wins. Rated Everyone (6+).
Wii Duds
It's a shame, but for every cool or clever Wii game, there is a handful more trying to cash in on cool cleverness by stuffing really bad games into deceptively alluring boxes. In short, pass on these:
- Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader: Make the Grade (THQ): Not if you buy this game.
- Littlest Pet Shop (EA): Like Webkinz without the stuffie, none of the fun, and three times the price.
- Carnival Games Mini Golf (2K Games): You might think a putting-only version of Wii Golf, and you'd be right, as in that shallow, but not free.
- Game Party 2 (Midway): Ten variations of something akin to Wii Toss. Next, think "your lunch". Also not free.
- Igor: The Game (Southpeak): It'd be politically incorrect to use a metaphor to describe this game, even a feeble one.
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