News Tagged: First Impressions
First Impressions: New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Plumbing new heights
Now we've had chance to play the final version of New Super Mario Bros. Wii, it's time to tell you the hard truth about Nintendo's latest plumbing escapades. Well, the hard truth is, it's a lot of fun and impossible to play without a smile on your face. Although a lot of emphasis has been put on the series-first multiplayer, solo play is still possible and feels exactly like..
First Impressions: Need for Speed Nitro
Leader of the pack?
There are very few serious driving games of note on Wii - the machine is undoubtedly missing its Forza Motorsport, Gran Turismo or Race Driver: Grid - and EA's latest in the Need for Speed franchise does little to address this problem. Whilst 360 and PS3 owners can play the generally well-received NFS: Shift, Nintendo gamers are being given a very different racer in the form of..
First Impressions: Wheelspin
Another gaming revolution from Archer Maclean?
Wheelspin is an unashamedly old-school arcade racer, with exaggerated physics, rollercoaster-style tracks and an emphasis on enormous speed. Its influences are clear - F-Zero and San Francisco Rush 2049 are the strongest - but sadly Wheelspin never feels more than the sum of its parts. The single-player campaign asks you to fulfill certain objectives..
First Impressions: Rabbids Go Home
Put this in your trolley!
There's only one possible conclusion to be drawn from Rabbids Go Home - it's mental. Anyone involved in its development should probably be sectioned under the Mental Health Act, such is the scale of the crazy acts featured in this first traditional adventure game for the Rabbids. Of course, if you've been following our exclusive Behind the Scenes Developer's Blog you'll..
First Impressions: Ninja Captains
We get our claws into Nordcurrent's latest
As much as it dents our hardcore gamer image to say it, we love a good minigame compilation here at Nintendo Life. When we're not blasting through Space Pirates or springing to the rescue of princesses for the thousandth time, you'll often catch us waggling away to a batch of minigames, so it was with great excitement we placed our preview copy of Ninja..
First Impressions: Japanese Nintendo Channel Update
Along with the 4.1J Wii system update, Japanese Wii owners have also received an updated Nintendo Channel!
The Nintendo Channel has long been a mixed bag: it provides Nintendo with a gateway into player's play habits (though you'd have thought this would be possible from the basic system given that the Wii has built-in networking capability) and also provides players with game trailers, short..
First Impressions: Takt of Magic
Does Takt of Magic have the magic touch?
It could be argued that Nintendo has been relying too much on the New Play Control range to get them through the first half of 2009 in Japan, and as a result the Wii has hit something of a bump in the road when it comes to sales figures. Hoping to turn things around, Nintendo has a great line-up of quality titles coming, and to kick things off is Takt of..
First Impressions: Red Steel 2 Exclusive!
The game you've been waiting for.
When Red Steel launched way back in December 2006 it promised so much, with its mix of bullets and blades and intuitive motion controls, but was clearly rushed to meet the Wii's launch date and ended up a disappointment in many gamers' eyes. A few months after release, the development team sat down to create the game they had always intended, and on Friday I was..
First Impressions: Let's Tap
Tap into a new game experience.
After the physical exertion of Virtua Tennis 2009, and with the shame of my first-round exit still hanging over me like a dark cloud, it was a pleasure to sit down for a bit with Let’s Tap. As a huge Yuji Naka fan I was dying to find out how his new studio Prope’s first game would play, and as soon as I got my fingers on the little orange box I had my answer:..
First Impressions: Virtua Tennis 2009
MotionPlus, a full online mode AND curly wigs? It's too good to be true, surely...
Strawberries and cream, Robinson’s fruit squash and appalling curly hair were all out in force for Sega Europe’s Masters Monday event, an invitation-only tournament with some of the best Virtua Tennis players on the circuit – and me – in anticipation of VT2009. There were even two guests of honour - Sumo..
First Impressions: The Conduit Multiplayer Madness
Tom ventures to Sega’s London HQ to play the game that is on the tip of everyone’s tongue.
To say that The Conduit is eagerly anticipated would be a serious understatement – this is potentially the title that could be the next best thing since sliced Goldeneye. Imagine then the excitement I felt at the opportunity to visit Sega’s London offices to not only give the Conduit’s multiplayer..
First Impressions: Monster Hunter 3 (Tri~)
We get our hands on those pesky Rathians.
In the Land of the Rising Sun, Monster Hunter has become one of the biggest success stories that the country has ever seen. While the original Monster Hunter didn’t exactly make a huge dent on the sales charts, its successors have been a completely different story. The most recent portable Monster Hunter title has recently crossed the three million mark..
News: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash Up - First Impressions
TMNT comes to the Wii in "Smash-Up" a not-so-subtle clone of another fighter you might remember...in a good way
It’s back to the basics for the new TMNT game on the Wii and this one shows some promising signs of gratuitous coolness in light of their 25th birthday.That’s right - it’s been almost 25 years since that dark, gritty first issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (or ‘Hero Turtles’..
