Game Review: Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess

I am a big fan of the Zelda series. I played the first few for months loved the puzzles and the game play. It was fun to play and even more fun figuring things out. Problem is the current Zelda for the Wii is not anywhere near the caliber of the previous Zelda titles. To start off you have to let the story play out, you CANT skip the stupid useless dialog cut scenes and you have to spend your first 2 hours playing performing silly things in the village. Granted this is good for newbies that never touched Zelda before but veterans will hate it. Controls are decent some can be improved. Overall I do not find the game to have much repeat playability. I keep popping it out and putting in Rayman or regressing to a good Game cube 007 title.

I am giving this game 3 starts out of 5. Not worth the premium price right now but certainly worth getting for $29.95 in a few months.

Game Review: Rayman Raging Rabbits

The Wii game Rayman - Raging Rabbits is an interesting title. It's not what you expect from other rayman titles and on the Wii you can tell instantly it is a release title as they paid lots of attention to the controls. Basically as rayman you have to play a series of minigames beating a goal on each one until you earn enough plungers to escape your prison. Many of the minigames are fun, shooting rabbits with a plunger gun is a blast, but others have bugs/quirks that make them not as fun... the DDR type keep the beat games that you have to zap rabbits to the tune of a song by shaking the remote and nunchuk have some bugs as in sensing double strikes and actually reducing your score when you hit it dead on ruins the fun. Throwing cows, drowning bunnies in carrot juice and other minigames are an absolute hoot and are actually more fun outside the single player game when you unlock them.

I give Rayman raging Rabbits a 4 out of 5. Losing a point only for the minor control bug.

Game review: Rampage:Total Destruction

My first game review for the Wii will be Rampage:total Destruction by Midway. This game is a rehash of the original arcade classic that many dropped a huge number of quarters into during the 80's. The graphics are great, they took lots of time to make the game look fantastic and sound fantastic.... problem is they released the game 1/2 finished. The controls are horrid, they left out the system to enable the other controllers for multi player and trying to steer your monster is a major pain in the rear! they did stupid decisions like not use the nunchuk for control and made you aim the Wii remote in a direction you want the monster to go, this almost never EVER works. and you are left getting frustrated as you can not aim your monster to where he needs to be.

I give this game a : DO NOT BUY rating. I would not even buy it in the $9.99 bargain bin as it is unplayable. It feels like they spent all their time making it look pretty and work for the other game consoles and then slapped together the wii controls and released it unfinished.