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Hands on with Nintendo Wii
Nick - writer - posted on Sunday, 11/19/06 21:29:25 EST
Well, were back from the Nintendo World launch of the Wii, here's how it went down.
We got to Nintendo World around 5:30, the line was already around the block, people at the front got there on Thursday...why, I do not know. Two news crews were there interviewing folks. The store opened at 6, and people who preordered went upstairs and the others were taken inside a few at a time downstairs.
We were on the line for around 2-3 hours till a worker started to ask folks if they had preorders. My friend and I showed the guy our receipts and followed five other people to the inside of the store. I've NEVER seen so many angry faces staring back at me in my life. I've even heard one person grumble, "I got here at four in the morning and their cutting in line!" I almost turned around and said, I preordered this back in September, baby!!
They did a nice job displaying all the systems, they had over 100 just sitting behind a guard, while they had a ton on the wall behind the registrars. The back room was PACKED with systems, so if your in the New York area and for some odd reason you didn't score the Wii, head on down to Nintendo World, they got plenty! There also stuffed to the gills with extra Nunchucks, Wiimotes and Classic Controllers as well as point cards. (The lady tried to sell me one but I said, no thank you.
The games were also displayed nice. They had a TON of Zelda and Excite Truck, as well as the two third party racers that include the wheel attachment. Looks like Happy Feet had the highest stack of copies left. Who knew! I picked up Rayman, for the multiplayer and of course Zelda.
As many of you may already know, the Wii keeps track of how long you play, after we left the Cap'n's apartment, we had racked up only three hours. I was stupid and went to the online updater. Big mistake, it was REALLY slow and didn't really add anything. I was hoping that the Opera browser would be an update and I could check out our site on the TV, but no luck.
First game we booted up was Wii Sports, we skipped the Mii's and Bab and I went right for Boxing. The control was very sketchy. I had the voice of Mickey from Rocky yelling in my head, "THE BODY! THE BODY!! HIT EM' AHH! YOU'RE A BUM!!" I kept trying to swing for body blows and I'd just hit air.
We didn't have room in The Capn's apartment to try Bowling or Golf, so we tried Tennis. It worked really good, I just need to see if you can make the little Mii's run faster. It was hard to get the return serve because my Mii wouldn't run fast enough.
Next game we put on was Rayman, and lo and behold you NEED to play the game to unlock all the mini games in order to play them with your friends. So I'm going to have to play more of it. The mini games in Rayman are great. The game's got a great sense of humor to it. The "Rabbids" are really hilarious. I want to collect them all! I'll get into more of this when I unlock more and see what the game has to offer. The mini games are a lot of fun and the "On the Rails" shooter stages are really fun too.
Of course we had to put Zelda on. I've been waiting for this for a LONG time and I know you were too. Now don't worry about any spoilers, because we spent an HOUR AND A HALF, trying to FISH.. Yes..fishing held us up for that long and I still don't have a sword. We had to hit up GameFaq's and thankfully a user explained how to work the fishing rod because the instructions aren't that clear.
Well I hope you enjoyed my quick impressions of the Wii. We'll have more of what we think of the new system and be sure to keep a look out for my upcoming review of a little import gem called "Twinkle Star Sprites"
Till next time, This is Moon Jump. Have a good one!