Best Wii Games

Wii, as many of you might know, is a popular video game console that was released by Nintendo. The Wii remote, a wireless controller, is a unique feature of this console. WiiConnect24 is a utility that accompanies the Wii console and provides the users with Internet connectivity. Wii is Nintendo’s fifth home console and beats its competitors in terms of sales. Here is a list of some of the best Wii games today.

Wii Fit: This video game was developed by Nintendo for the Wii console. It uses the Wii Balance Board peripheral to measure the user’s weight and center of balance and calculate the user’s body mass index. It consists of exercise activities such as yoga poses and push-ups. It was launched in December 2007 in Japan and around mid-2008 in other parts of the world. It is one of the popular Wii games since then.

de Blob: This video game provides the players with a puzzle that involves liberating an alien city from the captivity of the evil. Playing de Blob requires the players to bring back color and life to the city of Chroma, which has been taken over by INKT Corporation. The American video game developer Helixe was developing de Blob for the Nintendo DS while Blue Tongue, an Australian game developer was developing it for Wii. It was released for Wii in September 2008. The Nintendo DS users await the release of de Blob, which is scheduled in 2009.

Boom Blox: This puzzle video game is designed for the Wii console and for mobile devices. EA Los Angeles, founded by DreamWorks Interactive has developed Boom Blox with the help of film director Steven Spielberg. The game requires the players to solve physics-based puzzles. It boasts of more than 300 single-player levels and 100 multiplayer ones. It has a unique feature whereby the players can create their own levels. Boom Blox hit the North American and the European markets in May 2008.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl: This video game is a part of the series of crossover fighting games that was brought in by the Super Smash Bros. A team of game developers directed by Masahiro Sakurai, a video game concept designer from Japan, began with the development in 2005 in collaboration with a team of Nintendo developers. By 2008, the video game was released in Japan, Europe, Australia and the United States.

Guitar Hero World Tour: It is a music video games that was developed by Neversoft. It is a part of the Guitar Hero Series known for making use of the plastic guitar-shaped peripheral to simulate music. Besides Wii, the game was also launched for Xbox 360, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3 consoles. Apart from a guitar-shaped controller, it also features drum and microphone controllers. It allows the players to create new songs and upload them. ‘Guitar Hero World Tour’ has received mixed reviews. While it was appreciated for the quality of its instrument controllers, it was criticized for difficulties in music creation.

Animal Crossing: City Folk: It is a life simulation video game and a part of the Animal Crossing Series developed by Nintendo. It is different from the earlier Animal Crossing games in that it allows the players to customize their clothes and celebrate holidays in the game. The Wii Remote controls allow the users to handle tools like fishing rods and axes. Players live in separate houses in this game.

No More Heroes: It is an action video game developed for the Wii console. It has certain similarities with games like Killer7 and Suda 51 but differs from them in that it is based on social issues. In this video game, the player is supposed to control a character called Travis Touchdown who has to kill the top ten assassins, while walking on foot or traveling on a motorbike. ‘No More Heroes’ has been appreciated in the community of video game lovers.

Super Mario Galaxy: It is a 3D platform game published by Nintendo for the Wii console. It was released in 2007 in Japan, the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia. In this game, Mario, a fictional character that has appeared in many games, is on his quest to rescue Princess Peach, a character that has appeared in the Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. series. The game takes the players through a tour through a virtual world.

Spore: It is one of the popular multi-genre single-player games. William Wright, an American computer game designer is credited with the design of ‘Spore’ while Maxis, a video game developer company, boasts of having developed it. The game requires a player to control the development of a species from its unicellular stage right up to its evolution into an intelligent creature. In 2008, the game was released for PC and Macintosh consoles and probably around the same time for the Wii console. It can be downloaded from the Electronic Arts. It gives the players a fascinating way of looking at life. It is cited as one of the most creatively designed video games.

Active Life: Outdoor Challenge: It is designed to be used exclusively with Wii consoles. It comes with a mat to be used while carrying out all the activities that are a part of this game. This mat is similar to a Power Pad and is used along with a Wii remote control to participate in various mini-games, as they are called.

This was an attempt to brief you on some of the best Wii games available in the market. If you are interested in knowing about some of Wii’s competitors, you must read about the PS2 and the PlayStation 3 games. And yes, you cannot miss reading about Xbox 360 games.