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Wii Play: Game Review

Wii Play is a great value because it comes with 9 games and a free Wii Remote. The Wii Remote is $39.99 and Wii Play is a $49.99 game that comes with a Wii Remote. So getting a game and Wii Remote together was a good deal. This is a two player game where the contestants play 9 mini games. You have Shooting Range, Table Tennis, Fishing, Pose Mii, Billiards, Charge, Find Mii, Laser Hockey and Tanks.

Shooting Range: Fans of the original NES probably had the light gun and Duck Hunt, well shooting range gives a nod to Duck Hunt. Shooting Range brings the player through many stages of targets. I won’t ruin anything but the final stage is hilarious.

Table Tennis: Your basic Ping Pong game where you can also smash the ball back to the opponent if it is lobbed to you. You switch sides during play so each player gets to experience each side.

Pose Mii: With the Wii Remote you must turn your Mii left or right or upside down and place them in bubbles that match the position and the pose. You chance poses (3 of them) by pressing the A or B buttons. You can also freeze your opponent so they cannot get any bubbles for a few seconds.

Fishing: You use the Wii Remote to snag fish in a pond, sometimes there are bonus fish and sometimes you snag the small fry and lose points. My least favorite game here.

Laser Hockey: Like air hockey but faster and with more colors.

Find Mii: You have to use your memory and be quick. You must pick out a specific Miis from a group, your custom made Miis show up as well.

Charge: You saddle up and ride a cow and try to knock over scarecrows. This makes use of the Wii Remote in many ways, by titling it forward the cow leaps ahead and speeds down the track. If you pick the Wii Remote up the cow jumps. So you tear along the tracks and have great fun chasing down scarecrows while racing your friend.

Tanks: You move little tanks around the board and fire at other enemy tanks. You work together to complete the levels but the winner is the one who destroys the most tanks.

Billiards: You play nine ball and the action is pretty good. You use the Wii Remote like a pool cue and the actions are pretty intuitive.

Well, those are the 9 games of Wii Play. They are very good and it is fun to play a round of each game with two players and keep score as to how many games each person has won. I would have liked to have seen more players be able to play these games however. Two is just not enough people for a Wii party.

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Interview with Michael Bay: Transformers

There is a new interview between Michael Bay and Josh Horowitz from MTV. There are 4 separate videos that are online of Bay talking about the movie. And he is very excited about the movie. I liked the interview. And I like what Bay is doing to promote the movie. The trailers will deliberately not show a lot about the robots. They are saving it for the movie and that is perfect. I simply cannot wait to see the Transformers movie and I know it is going to blow me away with the visuals.

I also learned more about the Transformers Video game that is coming out this summer. And it will be for the Wii. Sweet. Here are some game facts from a post on The Allspark.

KEY FEATURES:

* Protect Or Destroy The Earth – As the TRANSFORMERS robot’s war comes to Earth, gamers make the choice to join the AUTOBOTS in protecting our planet or to join the DECEPTICONS in destroying it. With dual campaigns, the fate of the world is in players’ hands.

* MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE – Instantly change from a larger than life robot to a high-powered vehicle such as a sports car, fighter jet or helicopter. Seamless transformations leave enemies in the dust or enhance players’ combat strategy with a range of options in both vehicle and robot modes that take full advantage of the characters’ dual forms.

* The World Is Your Playground – Players crush, topple and wreck every object, including buildings and vehicles, in their path or use the objects as weapons. It is up to the gamer to decide how best to use their surrounding environment.

* Freedom of Choice – An unprecedented line-up lets gamers experience the massive scale, unique abilities and sheer strength of an army of characters from the TRANSFORMERS universe when they choose to play as OPTIMUS PRIME, MEGATRON, IRONHIDE, STARSCREAM, BUMBLEBEE and more.

* Variety of Combat – For head-to-head battles, fans engage in melee combat that reflects each TRANSFORMERS robot’s character, scale, weight and power along with melee weapons and special moves unique to each character. The game’s ranged combat offers a wide array of projective weapons designed to take out enemies from afar.

* PlayStation® Portable Features – The PSP version features 20 playable AUTOBOTS and DECEPTICONS, from both the live-action film and previous generations, that battle through an enhanced version of the film’s storyline. Players can customize their character by choosing more than 10 different weapon types in both single and adhoc multiplayer gameplay