IGN plays through the first third of Samus Aran's latest adventure. Detailed impressions and 60 glorious 480p screenshots.
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
Dash Rendar, Prince Xizor, the Battle of Hoth, and one of the boldest Star Wars multimedia projects ever made. Here’s why Shadows of the Empire still matters.
This game along with Rogue Squadron got me into to Star Wars. The release of special edition VHS Star Wars collection was perfectly times on top of all that. 😆
But it wasn't. Although I do agree that some of the tie-in media, like the novels and comics, were pretty good.
Still, games like Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, Rogue Squadron, and the space sims were peak 90s Star Wars. Shadows fell flat because of the abysmal controls and unimaginative levels. And if you wanted to really experience the seedy side of the universe, Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 was peak, and it wasn't even close.
Regardless, and much to my dismay, we got the better version thanks to Ubislop in Outlaws, which is what Shadows should've been, albeit at a smaller scale.
As a kid me and my cousins loved this game . I have great memories with this one and the Star Wars pod racer game .
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"Prime 3 boasts some of the best boss battles in any videogame, period" - IGN
Maybe that 10/10 from Nintendo power wasnt so far fetched after all?
This is a VERY good preview.
Read the IGN preview....now read the 1up preview...you will see a major damn difference..1 up sucks a$$
That is an absolutely stunning preview.
All of the quotes that can silence Wii naysayers...
"However, the truth is that Corruption is the best looking Prime game to date and very easily Wii's flagship visual stunner."
"Corruption plays better than any of its predecessors due in large to the new Wii control scheme."
"It yields the fastest and most responsive first-person controls in any Wii game to date -- possibly in any home console game ever -- and it alone makes the experience so thoroughly enjoyable that you won't want to put the Wii remote and nunchuk down."
"Critics have complained that first-person games on Wii have yet to prove their control superiority to those on other consoles, but we really do think that Prime 3 will open some eyes."
"...it's an amazing experience both mechanically and visually. If this is truly the end of Retro's magnificent trilogy, Samus Aran will have gone out on a very high note indeed."
This is what I like to see. Now we know that there's a use for all of those achievements, as well as application of WiiConnect24. This game is looking to be the Wii's killer app. The screens look nice too. Rundus looks strange in his PED suit, though.
I expect to be saving some major Federation Trooper butt on the 28th :D
P.S. New videos on the preview channel tomorrow! Even one titled "dark samus"!