Ahmed
BrentonSuper Monkey Ball Banana Blitz
November 2nd 2006 12:50
Available on: Wii (To be released 19th of November 2006 in the USA and 9th of December 2006 in Australia)
Release Date: Wii Launch title (available same day Wii reaches store shelves)
While Nintendo’s Wii-Sports will come out of the box with Wii it simply doesn’t have the depth of Super Monkey Ball (SMB) within it (quite purposely on Nintendo’s behalf).
Do you like tennis? Baseball? Boxing? Well all those questions are redundant because Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz will not simulate those games so much so it will keep your body busy doing stuff that draw inspiration from those games. Yes, there’s tennis, there’s baseball and there’s boxing mini-games in SMB but they aren’t the real thing, what they are though is really fun.
Kids will love it, because they will be directly interacting with what’s happening on screen rather than pushing buttons. Adults will love it for the same reasons, why wouldn’t you? Swing your arm this way, point on the screen that way, simple and fun. You have to agree it is more fun than pushing around a joystick.
The advantage of games like SMB is the fact they are built around the controller, there aren’t any mini-games in SMB that were made and forced onto the controller setup so much so the games were built around the controller. So no to realism, but yes to fun.
Probably the best example of Wii’s gaming capability is shown in SMB’s trailer:
Release Date: Wii Launch title (available same day Wii reaches store shelves)
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Do you like tennis? Baseball? Boxing? Well all those questions are redundant because Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz will not simulate those games so much so it will keep your body busy doing stuff that draw inspiration from those games. Yes, there’s tennis, there’s baseball and there’s boxing mini-games in SMB but they aren’t the real thing, what they are though is really fun.
Kids will love it, because they will be directly interacting with what’s happening on screen rather than pushing buttons. Adults will love it for the same reasons, why wouldn’t you? Swing your arm this way, point on the screen that way, simple and fun. You have to agree it is more fun than pushing around a joystick.
The advantage of games like SMB is the fact they are built around the controller, there aren’t any mini-games in SMB that were made and forced onto the controller setup so much so the games were built around the controller. So no to realism, but yes to fun.
Probably the best example of Wii’s gaming capability is shown in SMB’s trailer:
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It will retail at $400 AUD and comes with one free game (wii-sports), but you might need to cough up a bit extra for another set of controllers.
The GameCube is the next best compromise though.
I'm glad I'v turned you over to nintendo's side, and away from the ps2/xbox which are most ceratinly not suitable for kids.
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Prostitutes are all well and good, but monkey's are free and fun.