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The Wii is a Gamecube?

ShakeNBake1491 · 2007-04-25 04:27:46

I can't let you guys forget this First Look of Metroid Prime 3 now can I? There's a reason this was hyped AAA before, and that reason was that people who actually cared about this game did research.http://www.gamepro.com/nintendo/wii/games/previews/92688.shtml'Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Definitely stole the the show. The graphics looked amazing -- better than Halo 2 on the Xbox without a doubt -- and the levels showed off sparkling details, proving the Wii is far more powerful than the Gamecube. Out of all the games we played, the Wii controller seemed most at home with Metroid.You don't fire with your index finger, but with your thumb (using the A button). This sounds a little goofy, but in practice it worked very, very well. You could press the directional pad to fire rockets or enter your scanning mode, and the trigger (aka the B button) handled jumps very nicely. Samus has a few new moves that take advantage of the motion-sensitive controller. By locking onto a target and thrusting the left nunchuku forward, Samus could launch a grappling beam. The beam is similar to Half-Life 2's Gravity Gun, but was mostly used to push rubble out of the way, open grates, or in a nice touch, yank shields from enemy hands. The other major Wii functionality was that some control panels needed to be lifted, rotated, and pushed back into slots -- these movements were all handled on the Wii controller.Aiming with the point-and-shoot controller felt very nice, though it took a few minutes to become truly comfortable. The experience was much like playing a PC first-person shooter, especially since the nunchucku analog stick controlled movement We found that standing roughly four feet from the TV provided the best motion, and the cursor stayed smooth and steady -- no shakiness! The frame rate was also smooth and consistent, even when the screen got crowded with special effects.'Metroid was probably the best Wii game on display. Wii can't wait to play more!

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venture00

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#51 venture00

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I always knew the wii was capable of a lot more, not on xbox360 graphics level but its own. i think haters need to shut their mouths whit games like this wii proves that is not a weak system. ( and this is coming from an xbox360 owner and fan)

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#52 Zaistev_basic

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It's so funny how much lemmings wants to put Wii on their league, it just ain't in the same league. Two different gaming, two different audience. One game is not the same as the other. I think Wii is becoming a danger to X360 that causes lemmings wild paranoia because Wii is taking away the largest potential userbase (casuals), some hardcores, and introduce newer gamers.

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#53 Gears360

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[QUOTE="NobuoMusicMaker"]http://kotaku.com/gaming/shiggy/miyamoto-on-the-wii-the-hardware-is-basically-a-gc-205086.phpkansasdude2009

congrats! the architecture is infact similar... a nintendo insider would lie and say it was completely different right? How old is this again?

he didn't said "similar" , he said "THE SAME"

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kansasdude2009

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#54 kansasdude2009

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[QUOTE="ShakeNBake1491"]
[QUOTE="NobuoMusicMaker"]http://kotaku.com/gaming/shiggy/miyamoto-on-the-wii-the-hardware-is-basically-a-gc-205086.phpNobuoMusicMaker

This is older than my link. You lose.... AGAIN :lol:

I link Kotaku. You link a lackluster gaming new publisher, gamepro.

You lose.

no really... that thing is still old, and its not saying what you think.

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#55 kansasdude2009

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[QUOTE="kansasdude2009"]
[QUOTE="NobuoMusicMaker"]http://kotaku.com/gaming/shiggy/miyamoto-on-the-wii-the-hardware-is-basically-a-gc-205086.phpGears360

congrats! the architecture is infact similar... a nintendo insider would lie and say it was completely different right? How old is this again?

he didn't said "similar" , he said "THE SAME"

Thats because it is the same! I say similar because it has been upgraded, thus its different, and any infomed gamer knows that...

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