System 3 announced the development of Ferrari Challenge on Wii and Nintendo DS. Based on the licence, this race game will have official cars and circuits.

The DS DS will be playable for up to 4 players in a local Wi-Fi while on Wii, Wiimote will act as wheel of course.

Ferrari Challenge Website 

More About: Ferrari Challenge, Wii

This is thefact sheet of the upcoming Nintendo Wii game Spiderman 3 (more…)

More About: Nintendo Wii, Spiderman 3

Thi is an excerpt from the Review of the Nintendo Wii game Excite Truck by Cubed3

ExciteTruck may not live up to its amazing NES and N64 predecessors, but it certainly holds its own on the Wii so far, proving to be a far better racing experience than both Ubisoft’s efforts, Disney’s Cars and EA’s Need for Speed: Carbon…and yet it feels incomplete to some degree. With solid sales around the world so far, hopefully Nintendo will green light a sequel so Monster Games can show us what they are really made of. Brilliant fun, nonetheless, but it has short-lived appeal…

Full Review 

More About: Review, Nintendo, Wii, Excite Truck

Mario Party® 8
Format: Wii™
Launch Date: Q2
ESRB: E (Everyone): Mild Cartoon Violence
Game Type: Party/Board Game
Players: 1-4
Developer: Hudson Soft
Game Information (more…)

Driver: Parallel Lines details

New York in ’78 was the coolest place on the planet. I was new to the Big Apple, just a country boy looking to make it good. In just a few weeks it felt like home. From New Jersey to Queens, from the Bronx down to Battery this was my patch, my backyard. 28 years later and the city sparkled like new but underneath, the filth was still there, and I had vengeance crawling inside me.

? Wii Controllers Integration – Intuitive utilization of the Wii Remote and the Nunchuk for a unique sensation of driving and 3rd person action

? Experience Open Environments Racing in Two Distinct Time Periods – Multiple paths to complete over 35 missions across photo-realistic 1978 & 2006 New York City

? Control and Customize Over 80 Drivable Vehicles - Including cars, motorcycles, and trucks - all integrated with a realistic vehicle damage system

? Authentic Hollywood- style Action – Experience adrenaline pumping high speed racing and car chases

? Massive Enhancements Over Previous Driver games -Including AI, graphics, physics, and more!

Fulfill dreams
? Having access to cars/vehicles you can’t have in real life (own, build up, drive)
? Do things you shouldn’t do in real life (driving clearly beyond speed limits, engaging chases, doing insane stunts, wrecking cars, etc.)

Achievement
? Improvement of performances through expertise with driving skills and clever car tuning
? Victory over AI and over human beings

Immersion / Freedom
? Playing in a realistic, living, interactive environment
? Sensation of freedom through non linearity (free roaming)
? Sense of ownership through large choice of cars + visual and mechanical customization

Empowerment
? Beating the law and justice representative (the police)
? Transgressing rules
? Being and behaving as a gangster – bad guy
? Blowing things up
? Owning many cars/vehicles

Unique controller sensation
? Using the Wii Remote to select your target, master your weapon and shoot
? Using the Nunchuk to drive, adjust your speed, control the character and its gesture
? Intuitive driving – cars, motocycles, trucks…
? Intensive sensation of controlling weapons

Wii Game Specifics improvements

? More than 30 unique and exclusive controls using the full motion and sensing features of both, the Wii Remote and the Nunchuk controllers.

? Targeting and shooting system adapted to the Wii controllers

? Get into action faster by Teleporting: allow the player to move quicker through the city

? Tune the police aggressiveness and the traffic jam

? Specific Wii special effects –TBD

Source

Meet the Robinsons Wii fact sheets

Overview

Disney’s Meet the Robinsons, based on the upcoming Walt Disney Pictures animated film, is a time-traveling action/adventure game. Players will experience the adventure as Wilbur Robinson, helping him chase the dastardly Bowler Hat Guy and his diabolical robotic hat Doris through multiple timelines in an attempt to thwart their evil plans. The game weaves in and out of the film’s plot, expanding the Robinson world and offering an all-new adventure. Wilbur will have a host of gadgets at his disposal as he battles enemies and solves puzzles while pursuing Bowler Hat Guy and trying not to alter the future.

Key Features

Game control will utilize the innovative Nintendo Wii controller
Experience large-scale and stunning environments that deepen the movie universe — fully explore the Robinson’s House, Lewis’s science fair, Lizzie’s Ant Underworld and much more
Travel through time to alter the past and affect the future, interacting with the funny and distinct cast of characters from the movie
Utilize and upgrade the game’s myriad cool gadgets in funny and clever ways, including the: Chargeball Glove, Disassembler, Scanner, Family Album, Havoc Gloves and Levitation Emitting Volume
Solve puzzles and complete missions, discovering hidden upgrades, new items, and adventure areas in an interactive environment
Play various Charge Ball mini-games and collect Virtual Reality discs to download new courts

About the “Meet the Robinsons” film

Lewis is a brilliant 12-year-old boy with a surprising number of clever inventions to his credit. His latest and most ambitious project is the Memory Scanner, which he hopes will retrieve early memories of his mother and maybe even reveal why she put him up for adoption. But before he can get his answer, his invention is stolen by the dastardly Bowler Hat Guy and his diabolical hat – and constant companion – Doris. Lewis has all but given up hope in his future when Wilbur Robinson, a boy from the future, whisks our bewildered hero away in a time machine into a great big beautiful tomorrow. In a world filled with flying cars and floating cities, they hunt down Bowler Hat Guy, save the future and uncover the amazing secret of Lewis’ future family. Meet the Robinsons is based on the book A Day with Wilbur Robinson by William Joyce.

GAME PUBLISHER: Buena Vista Games
DEVELOPER: Avalanche Software, a BVG studio
GENRE: Action/Adventure
SHIP DATE: Spring 2007
ESRB RATING: Rating Pending
PRICE: To Be Announced
TARGET AUDIENCE: Kids 6-14
PLAYERS: 1
GAME PLATFORM: Wii (also for PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance)

This is an excerpt from the Review of the Nintendo Wii Game Cars by NWR

Cars features a truly huge game world with dozens of racing events and mini-games, so there is plenty to do. The presentation is also nice, with good-looking character models and lots of voice acting from the movie’s stars, including Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, and yes, Larry the Cable Guy. There is plenty of bonus content, such as high-quality video clips from the movie. All of these things would make the game easy to recommend except that the racing gameplay at its core is simply too frustrating, the controls too inconsistent, and the races far too long. I found myself cursing at the game on multiple occasions – and this is supposed to be targeted at kids? I know they’re not weaksauce gamers, but they’re not exactly the patient type, either. Considering that the tilting control scheme is the only Wii-specific feature, you may find that the GameCube version (also playable on Wii!) is easier to handle. For now, Excite Truck is still by far the best racing game on Wii.

Full Review 

More About: Nintendo, Wii, Cars

The picture above is apparently the result of a Wii Sports bowling mishap by a certain Tyler, who we hear can lift small cars with merely his right hand. Tyler, who normally bowls with a clockwise spin, and eats a dozen eggs for breakfast every morning, tried to mix it up with a bit of counterclockwise action, to the disastrous effect as seen above. While we’re still pretty dang skeptical of the possibility of such a feat, Tyler’s friend is quite adamant about the honesty of the story and the un-stagedness of the picture, so we’ve decided to take him at his word and write it off as just another Festivus miracle. Oh, and just for the record: after popping the battery cover back on, the Wiimote worked just fine, continuing the current streak of zero Wiimote casualties in related incidents.

source

This is an excerpt from the Review of the Nintendo Wii Game Cars by IGN

Since the main element in Cars is of course the driving, the core gameplay ends up dictating the appeal of the game almost entirely. After all, a huge world to explore and tons of events are well and good, but they mean nothing without spot-on control. Though we wouldn’t go as far to say that Cars controls poorly, it isn’t as tight as we were expecting. Gameplay is based on simple controls, primarily focused on acceleration, braking and drifting with the ability to jump off the ground and pull off a few added moves as a bonus. The sense of speed is a bit slow overall though, and the drifting is cause for a few more frustrating control issues. Initiating a drift is as simple as holding down the designated button, but it’s often ended far too quickly.

A more slippery feeling similar to Burnout or Super Mario Kart would have worked perfectly, and in the end it feels like the cars were grounded too much to get the true feel that was desired. Players will constantly struggle to stay in drift mode. In addition, a drift won’t work if the car is braking, so it is very difficult to manipulate the speed and direction of the car when engaged. Time and time again we would enter into the drift, begin to feather the control and then attempt to brake, sending our car into the rail or off the track. The overall feel that was needed (and expected) just never came through, and in the end we’re left with a game that controls decent on a fundamental level, but doesn’t excel in the areas Rainbow Studios is famous for, and that’s a disappointment.

Full Review

More About: Review, Wii, Cars

This is a new video of the upcoming Nintendo Wii game Cars Wii

Cars Wii Screeching Tires Gameplay Video

More About: Nintendo Wii, Cars Wii