Jackreyes' Gaming Blog

This game, cleverly aka BWii is a sequel to the original Batallion Wars released on Gamecube. Having never played the first game, I didn’t know what to expect. I have to say I was pleasantly surprised, it seems to have a nice campaign along with Wi-Fi play.

I have to say, even though the graphics aren’t revolutionary in comparison to the PS3 or 360… I think they are very impressive for the Wii and I love them. The vehicles and grunts may not look realistic, but I think that is whats so great about Nintendo and the Wii, they can pull off unrealistic and replace it with fun. Because that is what this game is… good fun.

The gameplay is great. The campaigns are well thought out and work really well. The first ones do a good job of teaching you how to play. However after only playing 4 of the campaigns and them still sort of teaching me, I’m a little worried about the length of the game because my save file says 25% completed already.

The controls seem to be pretty good using the wii remote, you press Z to lock on then wii remote to aim and press B to shoot. If instead of B you press A it’ll send the troops you currently have selected attack. The control stick on nunchuk is used for moving player around and C changes the camera view. Moving the nunchuk in a to the side (shaking sort of) will make you perform a combat roll to get out of the line of fire. If you use the D-Pad to select different troops and then hold down A you can become a different soldier type, or even a vehicle.

The WiFi I only tried once and the other guy disconnected. There are 3 different WiFi modes; Co-Op, Skirmish and Assault. I only tried Co-Op but then the other guy basically lost all his troops then disconnected. It seems to be lag-free and work well though. Still uses Friend Codes. You can find mine here. Just comment to tell me you have added me and put your friend code here too.

Ratings:

Graphics: 9/10

Gameplay: 9/10

Control: 8/10

WiFi: 9/10

Overall: 8.5/10

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I never got to writing this article until now >.<

I had a date on March 9. It was so dang beautiful. It was the best night of my life! What? You think I had a girlfriend? Noooo!! I bought Super Smash Brothers Brawl and played it for quite a while. The story is well set up, and even if there is absolutely no dialogue, it works amazingly!

The story mode is called the SubSpace Emissary. The story is basically that there’s the SubSpace Emissary, who are destroying parts of the Smash World with special bombs that turn the area into SubSpace. We also have the 2 greedy kings (Bowser and Dedede) beating the crud out of our heroes and turning them into trophies. The story is actually full length this time, and lasts probably 10 hours.

Brawl includes a new an improved group mode, which includes rotation (automatically swaps out players if you’re playing with more than 3 buddies), improved special brawl (bunny ears + large sized character + high gravity + metal), and the removal of the cruddy game variants we didn’t like (coin and bonus).

The game includes a lot more items and characters, such as the long awaited Sonic The Hedgehog, and the unexpected Solid Snake . There are about 34characters total, and will keep you playing for a while until you finally get them all. Some items from melee reappear, as you battle with an improved beam sword, super scope, and fan (it’s only better because you can trap people in your fan’s fury for a while LOL). The bumper (remember from the original SSB?) made a reappearance too. The nice new toys you get to play with are the cracker launcher (sounds a little weird), which shoot fire crackers at an angle that you choose, the smash ball, which summons your character’s special attack, and the Smart Bomb (Star Fox), which makes that huge explosion you see in Star Fox 64.

The vault mode (has collectibles) has a lot of nice features, such as the returning trophy feature, sticker feature (another nice collectible), stage builder (have not tested it yet), and screenshots + replays. I have not really tested much on Vault.

I have a few complaints about Brawl (it doesn’t matter how good a game is. There is always going to be something wrong with it).

1. Final Smashes are cheap and unbalanced. Kirby’s is almost impossible to avoid, and knocks you off the map easily, but Peach’s only makes you fall asleep and doesn’t make you fly off the map.

2. The game doesn’t have a dedicated camera mode. You can only angle the camera when you have paused the game. A lot of videos I see on SSB use the dedicated camera on Melee and angle their shots while the game is not paused. The zoom is not as good anymore (doesn’t zoom in as much as it used to).

3. No language changing

Gameplay: 9/10

Graphics (based on my taste, not compared to those fancy 360 and PS3 games): 10/10

Concept (same as always): 8/10

Controls: 10/10 for 4 different methods

Music: 9.5/10 because it is like a compilation of all the Nintendo stuff

Replay Value: As high as the moon gets.

Overall: 9.5

-sakuramaxx

Sure this news is a week old now but I’d abandoned all hope of a Linerider game coming to DS, Wii and PC.

Turns out that 1UP.com got the exclusive story.

The important details to you guys are probably prices and dates… so to cut down the reading load for you…

1UP say this: The game’s price will be different for each platform, with the Wii version at $39.99, the DS game at $29.99, and the PC one at $19.99. All three versions are scheduled to ship in the second quarter of 2008, so roughly a couple months from now.

I still really wanna play each version of this game. And I don’t doubt that I will… but haven’t most of you lost interest now?

The original Flash game came out over a year ago, the fad died a few months ago…

I doubt this game will get amazing sales.

But lets just hope its a good game. Expect a review a few days after release…

-Jackreyes

EA have launched a $2 billion takeover bid for TakeTwo the publishers of GTA IV.

This offer is said to expire on the 12th of April. Just before the release date of GTA IV.

Will be interesting to see what happens here. In a way I hope EA don’t get it, they already have too many bad games on the Games market. Instead of buying more, they should either start producing a decent one themselves or work on games they already own.

-Jackreyes

As you may have noticed Super Smash Bros. Brawl got released in US on the Wii.

Pretty sad for PAL owners at the minute. Although Datel have given us the option of playing the import with their new freeloader which ONLY lets you play imported games, it does NOT let you play backups. So if you order the freeloader and US import then you can still play. As far as I know the Wi-Fi is flawless in UK and Europe too.

For those with the game, here are a few extras (as if you need any):

Bin2Jpg: This piece of software converts your SSBB .bin screenshots into .jpg’s assuming you have an SD card. Link.

SmashLevels.com: This site allows users to upload and download custom stages again using the SD card. The site only has 41 stages up at the time of writing this post, however this site should only grow.

Soon I will hopefully have created a guide to unlocking characters.

Also expect other SSBB threads to turn up around here.

Stay Tuned.

-Jackreyes