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Nintendo Wii
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pewterfish and I trundled into Brighton to pick up a few bits for a wiring project, and in the process wandered into Churchill Square.
Where the Wii was being demonstrated (don't worry, I'm not posting any spoilers for TP).
Unfortunately I didn't get a go (too many people crowding round, and I didn't have that much time), but I must say I was very impressed by how well the system worked in live tests. The games on show were Wii Sports, what appears to be a version of Wario Ware, another bunch of mini-games including air hockey, and of course Twilight Princess. I got a good luck at one of the setups, and the sensor bar was stuck on to the bottom of the screen (a nice widescreen TFT) with blu-tack of all things! The bar itself is about 1/2" by 1/2" by 8", give or take a bit. The Wiimote also looks surprisingly small and 'chunky', compared to a usual TV remote.
Looking at people using it, it looks like the controller takes a bit of getting to grips with. Then again, it's not that dissimilar to learning how to use a computer mouse. Wario Ware (or whatever it was) seemed to be the most innovative, by getting you to do such things as swat flies, crank the handle on a paper shredder, write on a piece of paper, and steer a car around. The air hockey was fun to watch - it looked like you were pointing the Wiimote where you wanted the 'sticks' to go, which made it tricky to line it up for throwing the puck around. Having played a PC version (there's a nice one in the DirectX SDK), I can see how hard it could be to begin with. An earlier group seemed to have no trouble after a minute or two, so lets hope I can pick it up easily.
Moving on (skipping Wii Sports as I didn't get a good look at it), we come to Twilight Princess. I'm going to try not to post anything that hasn't been broadcast all over the interwebs (or that you won't find out about 5 seconds in), but if you want the entire game to be a suprise then do not click the cut.
( Twilight Princess (game interaction/engine spoilers) )
Okay, that's the end of the OMGWTFTPLOLBBQ section. They also had a few DS's there, with StarFox or similar on them. Plus there was also a competition to win a Wii, to which I thought "worth a try" and filled one in.I have a couple of photos which I'll be uploading later.
Edit in Feb 2017: finally uploaded the photos. Only took me 10 years to do!
pewterfish and I trundled into Brighton to pick up a few bits for a wiring project, and in the process wandered into Churchill Square.Where the Wii was being demonstrated (don't worry, I'm not posting any spoilers for TP).
Unfortunately I didn't get a go (too many people crowding round, and I didn't have that much time), but I must say I was very impressed by how well the system worked in live tests. The games on show were Wii Sports, what appears to be a version of Wario Ware, another bunch of mini-games including air hockey, and of course Twilight Princess. I got a good luck at one of the setups, and the sensor bar was stuck on to the bottom of the screen (a nice widescreen TFT) with blu-tack of all things! The bar itself is about 1/2" by 1/2" by 8", give or take a bit. The Wiimote also looks surprisingly small and 'chunky', compared to a usual TV remote.
Looking at people using it, it looks like the controller takes a bit of getting to grips with. Then again, it's not that dissimilar to learning how to use a computer mouse. Wario Ware (or whatever it was) seemed to be the most innovative, by getting you to do such things as swat flies, crank the handle on a paper shredder, write on a piece of paper, and steer a car around. The air hockey was fun to watch - it looked like you were pointing the Wiimote where you wanted the 'sticks' to go, which made it tricky to line it up for throwing the puck around. Having played a PC version (there's a nice one in the DirectX SDK), I can see how hard it could be to begin with. An earlier group seemed to have no trouble after a minute or two, so lets hope I can pick it up easily.
Moving on (skipping Wii Sports as I didn't get a good look at it), we come to Twilight Princess. I'm going to try not to post anything that hasn't been broadcast all over the interwebs (or that you won't find out about 5 seconds in), but if you want the entire game to be a suprise then do not click the cut.
( Twilight Princess (game interaction/engine spoilers) )
Okay, that's the end of the OMGWTFTPLOLBBQ section. They also had a few DS's there, with StarFox or similar on them. Plus there was also a competition to win a Wii, to which I thought "worth a try" and filled one in.
Edit in Feb 2017: finally uploaded the photos. Only took me 10 years to do!
