This is an excerpt from the Review of the Nintendo Wii Game Need For Speed: Carbon by PALGN

When we reviewed Need for Speed: Carbon last month on the Xbox 360 we were a little disappointed by the fact that the game wasn’t all that different from Need for Speed: Most Wanted. However, as an arcade racer Need for Speed: Carbon on the XBox 360 was still a great arcade title with some brilliant online features. Carbon on the Wii is one of the only EA titles available for the launch of Nintendo’s machine but keen racing fans may be better off picking the game up on a different platform or waiting for Excite-Truck to make an appearance early next year.

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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.

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This are the top 10 Nintendo Wii games by Amazon

1. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess—Nintendo
2. Rayman Raving Rabbids—Ubisoft
3. Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz—Sega
4. Madden NFL 07—EA
5. Red Steel—Ubisoft
6. Call of Duty 3—Activision
7. Trauma Center: Second Opinion—Atlus USA
8. Marvel: Ultimate Alliance—Activision
9. Excite Truck—Nintendo
10. Need for Speed Carbon—EA

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This is an excerpt from the Review of the Nintendo Wii Game Monster Truck 4X4 by Eurogamer

Monster Truck 4×4 - If Monster 4×4 were a budget release - and if the extremely similar, inevitably superior Excite Truck wasn’t around the corner - you might not even hate yourself if you’d come home with it. These are the Wii’s launch days after all, the lean times, when the novelty of a new console (not even taking the controls into account) can give almost any game a temporary sheen of excitement. But beware. After a jovial couple of hours in its company the scales will fall, and what had just seemed an unpretentious, unassumingly enjoyable videogame becomes a kind of existential nightmare of averageness that it’s impossible to play for a minute longer. Monster 4×4: World Circuit is the definition of the lowest common denominator.

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This is a new wallpaper of the Nintendo Wii game Excite Truck

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This are some of the Wii Scores and rumors published by the EGM magazine
Wii Games Scores

Zelda (Platinum) Jeremey - 10 Crispin - 10 Shane - 10 Game of the Month
Downhill Jam - 7.5 8.0 7.0
Madden 07 - 6.5 6.0 4.5
Red Steel 5.0 4.5 6.0
Wii Sports - 6.5 5.5 7.0
Excite Truck - 7.0 7.5 6.5
Elebits - 7.0 4.0 4.5
Trauma Center - 6.5 7.5 7.0
Rayman RR - 7.0 7.5 7.5

Rumors

-Sticky Balls - New Katamari for Wii, PS3 and Xbox Live arcade.
-Mii Crossing - Mii’s will be your avatar in the next Animal Crossing. All the shirts and accessories you collect will cross over to other games.

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This is an excerpt from the Review of the Nintendo Wii Game Excite Truck by GamersMark

The game’s title aptly sums it up. This game is about trucks, it’s about providing exciting moments, and it’s about racking up as many points as you can. Excite Truck delivers on all those promises, leaving it up to the player to make the game their own. Next time you want to road rage, don’t run grandma off the road; grab your Wii remote and slide into the driver’s seat of Excite Truck

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Reggie reveals date for Wii online gaming
Promises more Wii channels, also.

Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime has confirmed that Wii gamers will be able to play games online from the second quarter of 2007. Reggie’s pledge came in an interview with SpikeTV’s Game Head show (which saw the Ninty president indulging in some bowling - of both the real-life and Wii variety), where he also let slip that more Wii channels were in the works.

So far, Japan is the only region with a Wii game [Pokémon Battle Revolution - Ed] that can be played online. However, that’s set to change in the coming months, with Fils-Aime promising, “The multiplayer is coming. During the Japanese launch, there is Pokémon Battle Revolution, and that’s really the first one. There will be titles that we’ll be announcing in first quarter 2007, that’ll be multiplayer-enabled. So during second quarter 2007, people will be able to have a multiplayer experience on Wii.” In further good news for Wii fans, Fils-Aime revealed that Nintendo was hard at work developing more Wii channels, though revealed nothing about what they would involve.

He was also kept busy when it came to defending the Wii controller from accusations that it may be a tad gimmicky. “I’ve had the opportunity to play Zelda, Excite Truck, Wii Sports, a little bit of Red Steel, a little bit of Madden,” said Reggie. “It doesn’t get old. It really doesn’t get old. Wii will only become a gimmick if it’s marginalised in terms of the way the remote is used, and we have absolutely no indication that that’s going to happen.”

Aside from that, Fils-Aime also discussed the “Wii60″ phrase coined by Microsoft’s Peter Moore (”Can I endorse the 360? Honestly, no”), the prospect of Mario appearing in a GTA-style game (”You’ll never see that”) what game he thinks would be best online (”The ultimate one would be Mario Kart, on a multiplayer basis”), and generally came across as a fairly good egg.

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This is an excerpt from the Review of the Nintendo Wii Game Excite Truck by N-Philes

Excite Truck is destined to be largely overlooked this season in favor of big-name titles such as Twilight Princess and Red Steel, especially since the arcadey multiplayer fix is already supplied by the much better-hyped Wii Sports free of charge. It’s not an essential part of the Wii lineup, but it works well both as a showcase title built completely around the Wii controllers and as a game that better than most sums up Nintendo’s gameplay-over-graphics strategy (it looks shamefully bad compared to PS3’s Ridge Racer 7 yet it’s roughly four times more fun to play). And as a crowdpleaser for arcade fans who appreciate a cheesy game now and then, and for those neckbearded individuals alienated by Wii’s effeminate design and focus on getting Mom to play video games, it delivers. Excite Truck is Nintendo’s flagship title for kiosks in gaming shops and larger outlets; in all likelyhood Dad will see a person play it in the store for two minutes, decide it will make him “the hero” at Christmas if he includes it in the Wii he paid $500 for on eBay, and it will end up under the trees of thousands of children who never asked for it. And that’s okay. It’s okay.

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This is an excerpt from the Review of the Nintendo Wii Game Monster 4×4 World Circuit by GameSpot

Monster trucks are awesome, but Monster 4×4: World Circuit is not. The racing is bland, the destruction is minimal, the excitement is nonexistent, the presentation is poor, the content is lacking, and last, but certainly not least, Ubisoft is now charging $50 for what was a budget game less than a year ago. There’s no excuse to charge full price for a driving game this hollow and boring, and there’s no reason for you to bother playing it.

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