I have played Wii U
Posted by Francis Aug 03 2012 01:44 GMT in Wii U
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I managed to get into the Wii U Experience tour in Atlanta. It had lots of white sofas and neon-blue lighting. Also Wii U games. It was slightly dissapointing because they were demos of games you've already heard a lot about and you couldn't see the Wii U menus or anything online related. But overall it was fun, despite the overzealous employees.

Some impressions: The gamepad is lighter than a DS or 3DS, but feels good to hold. The "Pro" Controller (used to play Rayman Legends) was okay too. The buttons seem really light though. I guess I want things to feel more substantional and not like a plastic toy.

Pikmin 3 looks great. Rayman was also beautiful, and had some creative co-op gameplay.

Zombie U multiplayer was interesting, where the player with the gamepad places traps and zombies to kill the player on the big screen. 

I played a lot of Project P-100. From what I saw in the demo, the game seems to be all action. Basically a beat-em-up. Was really hard to draw moves on the gamepad, while pressing a button, while looking at the big screen.

The Nintendo Land games were ok, but you get bored of them pretty quickly.  It's not going to have the same success that Wii Sports had.

I like the Wii U possibilities, but this lineup of games wasn't very exciting. The crowd seemed to enjoy themselves, but no one looked blown away. Maybe Nintendo is using these events to guage how this holiday season will go, if so, I hope they realize they got some more work to do get people excited.  A handful of co-op mini-games isn't going to cut it. I hate to say it, but they really need a new Wii Sports.. that couldn't be done on the current Wii.


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So it's what we all expected after seeing the 3DS
Reply by Fortran Aug 03 2012 03:10 GMT
you're probably right about that with the whole gauging for the holidays thing, also didn't they only have like 3 of the 12 games in nintendo land playable there, or were they all there?
Reply by Super-Claus Aug 03 2012 03:58 GMT
yeah they only had luigi's mansion, animal crossing, and donkey kong. but even if the other games are different, it's still just a bunch of mini games. Not going to wow teh casuals walking by a mall kiosk like Wii Sports did.
Reply by Francis Aug 03 2012 05:12 GMT
yeah thats a good point, except for maybe that one where you have the ninja stars on the wii u tablet, and you flick them at the tv screen.
Also on a side note how did the streaming from controller to tv feel, was there any noticeable delay?
Reply by Super-Claus Aug 03 2012 05:22 GMT

No I didn't notice any delay, but you are never looking at the gamepad and TV at the same time, so if there is some lag it probalby wouldn't affect gameplay

Reply by Francis Aug 03 2012 14:02 GMT
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