Hi everyone and again welcome to the wiikly news report! Hope you liked the doodle of this week and that you’ll enjoy the news and the review! ^^

VC RELEASES OF THE WEEK:

USA
-Wonderboy III: the dragon’s trap (SMS)
-Dragon’s curse (turbografx)
-Cybernoid (C64)

EU
-Ninja Gaiden (Arcade)

WIIWARE RELEASES OF THE WEEK:

USA
-Excitebike: World rally (Racing game)
-Frogger returns (unclassified)
-Dragon Master: Spell caster (action)

EU
-My Zoo (relax)
-Rock’n roll climber (unclassified)

GAME RELEASES OF THE NEXT WEEK:

USA
16th of November
-New Super Mario bros. Wii
-F1 2009

17th of November
-Resident Evil: The darkside chronicles
-Tony Hawk Ride
-Lego Indiana Jones: The adventure continues
-Kamen rider Dragon knight

EU
20th of November
-New Super Mario bros. Wii
-F1 2009

NEWS

A new video for Battle arena toshinden Wii has been released (Fighting game):
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New screens and videos for Resident Evil: The darkside chronicles have been released (Gun survivor). Thwe game has also been confirmed to have alternative costumes and a TOFU MODE available in the two trailer:
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A new video for Naruto clash of ninja revolution 3 has been released (fighting game):
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New screens for The Calling have been released (Survival horror):
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A new (awesome) video and a scan for Tales of Graces have been released (Action/RPG):
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New screens for Lost in shadow have been released (2d platform):
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New screens and a video for New Super Mario bros. Wii have been released (2d platform):
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A new game from Nintendo has been announced! It’s called Zangeki no Reginleiv, an action game that will be released in February in Japan! Here’s the boxart and a few details…if you want screens just look for Dynamic Zan on google and you’ll have an idea of how the game looked about one year ago when it was first hinted at ^^
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- MotionPlus support
- Classic controller support
- Surprisingly violent
- Can target heads/limps, then cut them off (blood effects and all)
- Young deities are up against a race of giants
- Free online co-op mode, up to 4 players
- Weapons customization
- More than 300 weapons

New videos for Excitebike: World rally have been released (Racing game):
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New videos for Sin and Punishment 2 have been released (shoot’em up):
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New videos for Call of Duty: modern warfare reflex have been released (FPS):
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WII GAME OF THE WEEK: Rabbids go home
Genre: action

I’m sure most of you know what the rabbids game series is about: minigames. So when a full-fledged action game featuring the crazy rabbids was announced I can say I was quite surprised and intrigued, even if not fully sure if it would work.

Though I have to say it, this game really blows away the previous ones ^^ so now I’ll explain you why.

The graphic look of the game presents itself in a nice way. It won’t go for supr detailed textures and visuals, it prefers to go for a simple style, both for the models and the backgrounds. The thing actually works though, the levels are never repetitive visually-wise and you’ll have quite a few backgrounds to go into. The models of the rabbids are a bit better than the party games ones, while their animations are as crazy as ever and will probably make you smile more than once.

The humans will probably remind you of the Mii’s for some reason, simple, silly beings to torture during the levels X3 overall the graphic look is nice to see, simple and cute and works very well with the game.

The game setting is as simple as crazy it is: the bunnies seem to like to sleep on round glowing objects in fact you can see them sleeping on lamp poles at the start of the game. The problem is that there aren’t enough poles for everyone! Perhaps though if they reach the gigantic glowing ball that is the moon they’ll have enough room for everyone. So grabbing a trolley two rabbids go along with a musical band into the city of humans to take every object they can get their paws on to build a huge pile and finally reach the moon!

This is the crazy premise of the game ^^ the gameplay will let you run with your trolley around different levels, picking up objects, animals, clothes while causing chaos in the streets. You can notice a bit of katamari influence here, just without the growth :3

In the levels you’ll find objects scattered around and just running by them you can pick them up…in many occasions you’ll have to grab animals too, squids, crabs and even entire dogs! Don’t think the rabbids are powerless though, they have two ways to defend themselves…the rabbid scream, wich will be used to defend yourself from the germinators and their dogs and the turbo boost wich can be used for both ramming into enemies or things blocking your way and have an additional boost for certain jumps.

The rabbid scream also haves a different use…it can be used on garbage bins for example, to make a lot of objects come out of it or on the scared humans, so that you’re able to leave them in underwear and steal their clothes X3 I find really fun how the humans run around and try to hide in closets or ontop of trees, poles and other stuff in the levels ^^

Now, more details about the battle sessions…the main enemies of the game are the germinators and their dogs. Many times during the level they’ll corner you into a sort of inflatable ring to battle you. There are a few kinds of germinators, some more or less dangerous, but most of the time I didn’t find too many troubles beating them up and stealing their clothes, forcing them to panic around and let me free >:3

More about the level themselves now: the main target of every level is a LARGE object to get at the end or at a certain point of the level so that it can be added to the huge pile of stuff to reach the moon. Depending by the object involved the gameplay of the level changes slightly…a good thing is that just a few objects repeat trough the game and every time they give something new to offer to the player so that the gameplay never gets repetitive…a couple of special examples are the engine of an airplane that will let you go trough a race toward the end ontop of the engine, ramming into objects and humans who will scream at the top of their lungs while clinging to the huge thing. Or another (very funny) object: an entire hospital bed with a sick person on it, trapped in an isolating bubble that will make you able to float around and execute long jumps :3

The humour of the rabbids make everything even better…more than ever in this game, the rabbids seem to take a charm they just slightly hinted at in the previous games, it’s like they finally found their home for real! The story, as you can expect is simple and almost not there, though you’ll notice a few very simple and very silly sub-plots during certain levels that will probably make you smile more than once. Also, without spoiling anything, this game haves one of the silliest endings ever, wich is good X3

The soundtrack is based on either existing songs heard trough the levels (like from the speakers of a super-market or from radios scattered around) or from the trumpet-based soundtrack that the rabbids themselves play, giving them their own style of music, a music that fits their life style X3

Th game itself is not long and can be finished in 2/3 days, but it’s certainly a very good game, proving that ubisoft is starting to put some real effort into wii games…somehow this makes me feel better about the upcoming red steel 2, it could pull off as a good game ^^ I suggest it to all the ones who enjoyed the previous rabbids game (since this one is 10 times better) and to the ones who are seeking for a silly game without any dark theme and who just want to have a nice time with a smile on their face ^^

Here are a few screens:
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and a couple of videos:
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that’s it for this week! See ya next time and have a good wii gaming time! :3