CR Exclusive: Nintendo Power September 2006 Info
Posted by: dvbrevolution in 1. Wii News & Articles
UPDATE 1: The Wii-mote got ‘in the way’ of Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Using it might have been great but also tiresome.
UPDATE 2: COD3 will finally be one of the first games to involve the Canadian Armed Forces. Historically, Canadians were in Italy before D-Day, had sent over 1.1 million forces for the war effort and was a major supplier and ally in the war.
UPDATE 3: Nintendo Power hopes for a House of the Dead and Spore title for the Wii. They also confirm that Trauma Center: Second Opinion is a launch title.
UPDATE 4: Mephisto is in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance and that a campaign to rescue heroes from Mephisto will have an epic boss battle (multi-stage) as one of the heroes makes the ‘ultimate sacrifice’.
UPDATE 5: Michel Ancel on Rayman Raving Rabbids and Wii: “(Wii) It’s so different from the other consoles that we decided to reconsider everything…We believe in the Wii and building gameplay around the controller. So now we are designing Raving Rabbids specifically (It’s an EXCLUSIVE!) for the Wii. It’s not just an adaptation. It’s a very special project, because this is really a revolution for us. Now we have to focus on one version - the Wii version.”
UPDATE 6: Xavier Poix on Rayman Raving Rabbids and Wii: “The more we heard about the Wii, the more interested we became. Then when we got our development kits, we knew that everything we dreamed of doing on this was possible. That’s why we changed our minds. We decided, ‘Ok let’s just focus on Wii’. That’s it. The other (versions) can come later.”
UPDATE 7: Rayman Plot: Unexpected invasion from crazed bunnies (Rabbids) that lived underground and have planned and waited for the day they could take over the world. Michel Ancel speaks about the game: “When you start the game, Rayman is a prisoner. The Rabbids don’t know anything about him. They don’t know that he’s a hero.” Nintendo Power mentions that the story is similar in a way to the Acadamy Award-winning movie Gladiator where Rayman becomes more popular amongst his captors to the point that he must become more popular than the obese and sadistic emperor of the Rabbids.
UPDATE 8: More about the controls are explained for Rayman. You can ride on top of a Warthog and you steer the animal tilting the Wii-mote left and right and you can flick the controller to pick up speed. Final version of the game is promised to have full destructable obstacles. You can swing (chained) cows (remind you about Earthworm Jim) while holding the B trigger and you swing the Wii-mote over your head to swing the cows and you can increase velocity to the point that you let them go. One of your goals in the game is to slam the bathroom stall doors where the Rabbids are sitting on the toilet before they use a plunger against you. There is an FPS sequence in the game where you are dropped on a desert island wearing only a fig leaf and you are up against an army of Rabbids while armed with a plunger gun.
UPDATE 9: Rayman consists of at least 60 trials and you do alot of things like flicking the nunchuk to do a jump on a jump rope, a foot race, using Rayman’s hands to fling and grab objects when you flick the nunchuk etc . Unfortunately the main attraction of the game isn’t platforming although there will be many platformer-type trials and the game is an adventure title. Also you actually dance physically so you can gain popularity points.
UPDATE 10: Rayman will have a multiplayer component. Ancel says “We hope the player can continue having fun with his friends even after he’s finished the single-player mode”. Some multiplayer trials include passing the controller around while others allow for four players. One of the trials included a cow milking contest. Regarding WiiConnect24 and Wi-Fi compatibily Ancel responds “We’re still waiting for more information from Nintendo. We have some ideas that we definitely want to implement; we’re just waiting to hear from them to make sure we can do it.”
UPDATE 11: Ubisoft’s Ancel on Wii’s Graphics: “In terms of visuals, if it’s fluid, if you can understand the picture, that’s enough. The number of polygons does not make you laugh or cry. We did a lot of good looking games on this generation of graphics processors. The Wii hardware is more powerful than those, so that’s good enough for us. We’re using our energy on gameplay and new ideas more than on shaders and things like that…The hardware capabilities aren’t a limitation. It’s more a question of coming up with new ideas than worring about technical specifications. With the Wii, it’s all about having fun.”
UPDATE 12: Ubisoft’s Xavier Poix speaks on Wii’s Graphics: “When it comes to graphics, we’re more focused on the artistic side. You know, when you see the last generation of games on Gamecube-Resident Evil 4, for instance-it’s beautiful. When you look at what they’re doing on Xbox 360, they have many great-looking games, but usually it’s more focused on the number of polygons than on the real artistic side. And we here focus on the artisitic side. We like it.”
UPDATE 13: There are about eight Rayman screenshots from the game and in my opinion they look really beautiful. There are also concept arts of the game and one of them show the emperor himself (similar to Jabba the Hutt). Be patient and wait till these screens are out in high quality or at least get the issue.
UPDATE 14: Nintendo Power asks Michel Ancel of Ubisoft about a ‘Beyond Good & Evil’ sequel. Ancel replies “(jokingly) We’ve already relased it! Haven’t you played it yet? I think it’s still in the hearts of everyone here. There are no plans at the moment, but it’s out there somwhere. Who knows? It could be our next project. We just don’t know yet.”
UPDATE 15: Nintendo’s Daiji Imai speaks about Twilight Princess: “We’re still figuring out how to best use Wii’s capabilities. There’s still alot of work to do, and fans’ expectations are very high. I don’t think we should make things too complex though…So far, we have only revealed a handful of things about the latest Zelda-the village, the forest, the dungeon-but there are many other things waiting for you in the final game. I think Twilight Princess might be different from player’s estimations, but I guarantee that it will exceed their expectations. You can count on it!”
UPDATE 16: The next big feature in the issue is on Red Steel. The first two pages is practically a poster with a Japanese ‘bad girl’ (from the Shibuya Girls) holding a blade, sitting on the lap of one of the bad guys who hold’s a gun. And there is a table with the Wii-mote and nunchuku. All of a sudden the image I have of Red Steel…suddenly changed…According to Nintendo Power, The Shibuya Girls are mysterious geishas with an attire that conceals their taste of blood (kinda gothic). Apparently the mistress of Tokai takes control of the Shibuya Girls and the community while one of the old-school leaders requests your help to restore order to the streets of Shibuya.
UPDATE 17: In Red Steel, the main baddie Tokai is looking to take power of six other Yakuza clans. One example is the Financial Clan, who control the major banks as it seems. Tokai is trying to sway many of it’s members while you have to infiltrate the clan’s boss’s office in order to convince him to align with you. The other example is the Game Fight Clan who watches over the legal/illegal activities of the entertainment industry. They set up the games, find the players and makes sure everyone pays up, all while keeping the police off their back (the ones that aren’t Yakuza controlled). You’ll have to earn their trust in the game and go through many challenges in ’specially designed arenas’.
UPDATE 18: In Red Steel you have a few friends who help you along the way. Otori is a former Yakuza member and martial arts trainer in Japan and your first contact. He will teach you the ways of your new weapon but not join you in battle. Harry Tanner is an American night-club owner in the heart of Yakuza territory. He’ll instruct you in the art of firearms and help you connect to other Yakuza bosses that visit his joint.
UPDATE 19: There are a few screenshots and concept arts from Red Steel in this issue. Also they took 7,000 photos of Tokyo to develop ‘realistic’ scenery for the game.
UPDATE 20: The October issue of Nintendo Power will have a feature on Metroid Prime 3 and as to why it will change the FPS genre forever.
UPDATE 21: Small previews of One Piece, Final Furlong and Open Season were shown with new screens. Nintendo Power isn’t sure if One Piece and Final Furlong will be making it’s way to American shores.
UPDATE 22: Major League Baseball from 2K Sports should be out for the Wii around 2007-2008 along with other 2K titles.
UPDATE 23: Nintendo Power speculates that you might be able to expand your DS games to the TV Screen (similar to GBA Player?) with the Wii.
Final Thoughts: Wow did we get more information from Nintendo Power in this issue than from previous issues. Nintendo Power seems very positive that Rayman is an exclusive and they didn’t mention it was a timed one but that remains to be seen. Rayman is definitely a title that should be considered. I’m not a Rayman fan, in fact I don’t think I ever played a Rayman title and now I want this game for the Wii at launch. Red Steel is now looking like one heck of a game. Previous reports suggested it was longer than traditional FPS’s (approx. 13 hrs) and with a story like this it’s a must have. Let’s hope that Ubisoft resolves the issues with the controls for swordplay for launch. Anyhow there were a few more things in the issue like a Smash Bros. Profile of Mario, a Nintendo Power debate about whether Pit can beat Snake but above all it was a great issue. Hope you enjoyed the info.
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July 21st, 2006 at 2:22 pm
I want to play Super Smash Bros. Brawl with the classic controler or maybe my GC’s, so ill survive.
July 21st, 2006 at 2:24 pm
Yea awesome guys. Thx for this. I love yalls Nintendo Power exclusives. I’m refreshing the page every second.
July 21st, 2006 at 2:24 pm
Spore on Wii would be so Sweet! Hopefully the WFC for Wii would be able to support the online features of Spore. Also Trauma Center: Second Opinion was confirmed as a launch title by Atlus awhile back. Anyway I am sure that it will be a great game seeing as how the first one on DS was so awsome!
July 21st, 2006 at 2:26 pm
Yea and House of Dead please too haha. And spore would be fricking awesome.
July 21st, 2006 at 2:26 pm
Yeah it is really nice to see that NP is finally getting some Nintendo exclusvie info, seeing as how they are part of NINTENDO. Before it would only be every once in awhile but now its like every issue.
Also it is nice to see this page always updating, CNRev ROCKS
July 21st, 2006 at 2:27 pm
Sweet now Rayman is exclusive to WII!
July 21st, 2006 at 2:30 pm
Wow Rayman: Raving Rabbids an exclusive. Sweet. Is that all the updates?
July 21st, 2006 at 2:32 pm
Well guess not sweet.
July 21st, 2006 at 2:35 pm
So does that mean it’s an exclusive or a timed exclusive? Little confused.
July 21st, 2006 at 2:40 pm
Yeah that does seem alittle odd to me. My guess by the wording is that its a timed exclusive, but I think Ubisoft will just give up on bring it to the other consoles.
July 21st, 2006 at 2:42 pm
Ah who knows. Weird comment indeed. But wha the hell haha. A commercial break haha. I’m updating my site with your info as we go. Don’t worry I acknowledged it was your exclusive. But take all the time you need.
July 21st, 2006 at 2:44 pm
Seems like a timed exclusive with extra features to me. The “features” being the use of the wii-mote and I would guess on some gameplay that isnt possible on the other two.
July 21st, 2006 at 2:50 pm
now Ubisoft give us ports of the your other games PLZ
July 21st, 2006 at 2:52 pm
A great game to come to Wii would be Splinter Cell Double Agent! You could make a motion to grab a guy from behind and then you could hear his voice from the speaker!
July 21st, 2006 at 2:54 pm
Yea Splinter Cell would be awesome. And Rainbow Six would be great too. Better yet Ubisoft give us everything you got.
What about that rumor of those 5 Ubisoft games coming. Was that a rumor or is it true.
July 21st, 2006 at 2:57 pm
I think that was a rumor because two of the games from the rumor were RainBow 6 and Assassin’s Creed. They were both, on the rumored list to come to Wii.
July 21st, 2006 at 3:01 pm
Why do you have to update the post all the time instead of just posting it in 1 go?
Can you tell me how long it takes to add 1 entry?
July 21st, 2006 at 3:02 pm
Well the list of games was Farcry, Blazing Angels, GT, Monster Trucks, and and one other I can’t remeber.
July 21st, 2006 at 3:05 pm
Oh that list sorry I was thinking about one that was older. Blazing Angels would be perfect on Wii. So would FarCry. CT and Monster Trucks seem possible because there have been games released on DS from Ubisoft that mimick those titles.
July 21st, 2006 at 3:06 pm
Oh now I remember. The other was Prince of Persia title.
July 21st, 2006 at 3:06 pm
Yea those would all be great. Espeically Farcry. That’s what I want to see hit the Wii.
July 21st, 2006 at 3:07 pm
I am sure PoP will come to Wii and some point along with Splinter Cell the only question is when and how much time will Ubisoft put into those titles.
July 21st, 2006 at 3:09 pm
Hey do you guys ever go to 1up.com and do you guys have a 1up account?
July 21st, 2006 at 3:09 pm
I would hope a lot. They are seeming to be very interested in all their other titles so let’s hope they can make all the rest happen too.
July 21st, 2006 at 3:10 pm
I hardly go to 1up and don’t have an account.
July 21st, 2006 at 3:11 pm
Just wondering because I run a club on there called Big N’s Revolution.
July 21st, 2006 at 3:11 pm
House of the Dead 4 would be good on the Wii because to reload, you chake the gun and when zombies grab you, you have to shake the gun to get them off.
July 21st, 2006 at 3:12 pm
Cool. Well I have my own site. I’ll put it in my name. It’s getting really big now.
July 21st, 2006 at 3:12 pm
Yea House of Dead 4 would just be amazing. Let’s hope that comes to the Wii.
July 21st, 2006 at 3:15 pm
rabbiDs?
July 21st, 2006 at 3:15 pm
Sweet a plunger gun.
July 21st, 2006 at 3:18 pm
Lol yeah plunder guns! HoD 4 would be nice on Wii. Hey Zucas I posted a comment on your site.
July 21st, 2006 at 3:20 pm
Yea plunger guns just sound awesome haha. I love the Rayman series. And yes love HoD series so yea HoD 4 possibility on Wii. And thx for the comment on my site. We’re doing a podcast soon and there’s an area where you can leave qustions and stuff if you want to ask us something and we’ll go over it in the podcast. Here I’ll go get a link.
July 21st, 2006 at 3:21 pm
http://yourgamerparadise.blogspot.com/2006/07/episode-5-comments.html
Just scroll down to the way bottom where it says post comment and give us any questions you want though usually we like them to be about gaming haha. Any company any side it don’t matter.
July 21st, 2006 at 3:22 pm
Damn! I can’t wait for the Wii…
*refreshing the page every second*
July 21st, 2006 at 3:26 pm
Cool I will check it out it a little bit. After this news finishes. CNRev is such a great site, so is Gonintendo.
July 21st, 2006 at 3:28 pm
Yea I go to Codename Revoluton and Gonintendo for all my Nintendo news. Just great aites both of them.
And sweet a possibility of a Rayman online mode. Awesome. Come on Nintendo share the onlien capability stuff with devs so they can make us happy. Nintenod must really have something big up their sleeve to keep online such a big secret.
July 21st, 2006 at 3:30 pm
I really think that they do have some big stuff planned for online. The WFC and WiiConnect24 together are going to make some great things happen!
July 21st, 2006 at 3:31 pm
That they are. I love the idea of WiiConnect24. Just a great idea. But yea they have to have something big planned for online. Otherwise there wouldn’t be a lot of secrecy about it.
July 21st, 2006 at 3:32 pm
It is interesting to note that Ubisoft Montreal seems to know something about the online. When asked about online for Red Steel they normally just say we will share more info later……….
July 21st, 2006 at 3:34 pm
Yea I’ve noticed that too. I think Nintendo has told it too a few who they want to help them reveal it when they decide to unleash online details. So they want a few devs to know it. And I guess Ubisoft Montreal is one of those.
July 21st, 2006 at 3:37 pm
Interesting things on the graphics. Makes it sound like they could have pushed everything to a lot more but they were more on the artistic side and didn’t feel it was necessary. Possibly saying a little more juice from the Wii than we thought. And it is more powerful than the Xbox he confirms so another thing.
July 21st, 2006 at 3:40 pm
Crap I think 1up.com just went down! Now I can’t get to my club anymore!
July 21st, 2006 at 3:42 pm
No don’t tease us about Beyond Good and Evil 2! Its another game that fit perfectly with Wii
July 21st, 2006 at 3:44 pm
Haha yea teasing is unnecessary. Now all I’ll be discussing is if it will or won’t come. Ah damn. Haha but let’s hope so.
July 21st, 2006 at 3:54 pm
45 comments!? When I first saw that I was thinking there was a riot here.
Anyway, good job CR. I’m liking these updates.
July 21st, 2006 at 3:55 pm
yea we’ve been holding out pretty well haha.
July 21st, 2006 at 3:55 pm
Wow Nintendo Power actually revealls things we dont know. Anyway I first was kind of bored and uninterested with Rayman. Although Im not going to get it its still sounds like a cool fun game. Hmm more mysterious comments by the Twilight princess staff.
July 21st, 2006 at 3:57 pm
Zelda TP is going to be the best game ever, even topping OOT! The world is going to be huge!
July 21st, 2006 at 4:01 pm
Zelda TP is just going to be fricking sweet. Oh my god GOTY 2006.
July 21st, 2006 at 4:02 pm
the Red Steel info is sweet
July 21st, 2006 at 4:02 pm
Yea Red Steel just keeps getting better. When you just start thinking it’s perfect stuff like this come. I love you Ubisoft.
July 21st, 2006 at 4:04 pm
I am hoping they break more news in the October issue, which should hit in about a month. That would be the perfect time to reveal the last remaining secrets (that they don’t plan to reveal in September, price, date, etc.)
July 21st, 2006 at 4:05 pm
Haha well there saving all the rest of those secrets
for Spaceworld 2006. Can’t wait for that.
July 21st, 2006 at 4:13 pm
Where are the updates?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo I need theupdates
July 21st, 2006 at 4:15 pm
Yea I need updates too haha. I’ve ben on here for awhile adding them to my site and I have a lot of other things to do haha. But do take your time as long as you get them out. Thx for doing this by the way too.
July 21st, 2006 at 4:15 pm
More powerful than all of the current gen consoles in terms of graphics, not a limitation, this could mean that the GPU is higher than we expected
July 21st, 2006 at 4:17 pm
Yea saying that the hardware and power isn’t a limitation really gets me wondering of what is behind that. Does that mean they dont’ have limitataions or is the limit higher than we all expected. Hmm.
July 21st, 2006 at 4:17 pm
yeah that is good news
July 21st, 2006 at 4:19 pm
Gosh but I just need Spaceworld to come on around and tell us everything so I can go own some MS and Sony fanboys haha.
July 21st, 2006 at 4:22 pm
Um, there is no Spaceworld 06 but an event being held for the wii
July 21st, 2006 at 4:23 pm
wait, maybe I am mistaken
July 21st, 2006 at 4:23 pm
Jay- what ya mean. Spaceworld 2006 would be the event to hold for Wii haha. You know what Spaceworld is right.
July 21st, 2006 at 4:24 pm
yea Spaceworld 2006 is usually an event rented out by Nintendo to show off their new hardware. That would be the Wii event. That’s why most people are saying that’s when we’ll see the rest of the Wii.
July 21st, 2006 at 4:24 pm
I don’t know if there will be a space world but many people in the “Know” are saying there will be some sort of big event in September.
July 21st, 2006 at 4:26 pm
yeah an update!
July 21st, 2006 at 4:26 pm
There is an event being held in September. I know that duh. This doesn’t mean it is going to be spaceworld
July 21st, 2006 at 4:28 pm
Powa ! too many infornations in one time…
But why they talk about the Wii-mote in Smash Bros it was the classic controler since the beginning, No ??
July 21st, 2006 at 4:30 pm
Well if it’s not TGS then there’s not much else it could be accept for the German Gaming Convention.
July 21st, 2006 at 4:36 pm
Jay I was pointing out that it will be a BIG event not just some release of info. I know it won’t most likely be a SpaceWorld
Nintendo should have playable games for Wii at GGC and they will most likely release new info. Well the coming months will be packed and we all have the launch !
July 21st, 2006 at 4:39 pm
Darn now i need to leave for a bit
See ya guys later
July 21st, 2006 at 4:40 pm
The reason I say Spaceworld is cause Nintendo said they would release a little bit of info leading up til launch. But they haven’t done that. So they’ll have a lot of info to reveal shortly. And events like TGS and GGC aren’t big enough to support all that info. They need an even that is just them and that’s Spaceworld. That’s why I say Spaceworld 2006.
July 21st, 2006 at 4:41 pm
Later Link.
July 21st, 2006 at 4:42 pm
[…] The lastest issue of Nintendo Power has made its way to subscribers, and CodenameRevolution has the details. Check out all the info below. UPDATE 1: The Wii-mote got ‘in the way’ of Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Using it might have been great but also tiresome. […]
July 21st, 2006 at 4:45 pm
Is that all the updates or is there more?
July 21st, 2006 at 4:48 pm
The Big Conference is The Leipzig Conference from Germany.
IGN confirmed it!!!
http://wii.ign.com/articles/720/720002p1.html
July 21st, 2006 at 5:02 pm
I’m glad to know that EA will have competition, and hopefully they will both make good games.
July 21st, 2006 at 5:31 pm
“We have some ideas that we definitely want to implement; we’re just waiting to hear from them to make sure we can do it.”
Not sure if I get this, is he talking about Nintendo censoring the game? If so, thats lame…
July 21st, 2006 at 5:35 pm
Z it could be from anyone. It could be to maintain the teen rating or it could be asking if its possible to implement a feature or something. Or they could be asking to the head of Ubisoft. I doubt Nintendo is censoring. However Nintendo has helped and been heavily involved with development of Red steel with ubisoft.
July 21st, 2006 at 5:48 pm
Great now I’ve read all the information before I even recieved the issue…why do I bother subscring to NP anyway?
July 21st, 2006 at 5:51 pm
SPORE ON Wii!?
I’ve imagined it, but surely not. That would be so great. In what context was Spore mentioned? Is it a possibility or just a little wish?
July 21st, 2006 at 6:12 pm
No No No… Rayman: Raving Rabbids will not be an Wii exclusive title, when you read the article it may seem so but what the writer is actually refering to is that Rayman will have an exclusive feel of play on the Wii wich is unique and therefore exclusive in a way that you won’t get that feel when you play Rayman on a X360.
July 21st, 2006 at 6:25 pm
Not sure if I get this, is he talking about Nintendo censoring the game? If so, thats lame…
Come one, what r u talking about?! It means they have some ideas for online probably but they don’t know Nintendos strategy for online yet. I mean, they can only assume wifi will be like the DS one but they don’t know for sure
July 21st, 2006 at 6:39 pm
Mr. Son, Nintendo is known for censorship. If you had the SNES plus Mortal Kombat you would know what im talking about… Ripping the hart out of someone without any blood just isnt the same… Sure there are other games, but that one just jumped to mind. Still pisses me off to think about it.
But I hope that they have stopped censoring stuff. Oh well, guess ill know sooner or later.
July 21st, 2006 at 6:59 pm
They have stopped censoring things…it is refering to the fact they don’t know all the online details or limitations of all the features…
July 21st, 2006 at 8:19 pm
@ZZZzzz
They didn’t censor BMX XXX. I think they’ve stopped censoring.
July 21st, 2006 at 9:41 pm
Don’t worry about the controls for Red Steel. I’m sure they have it all figured out, much better than we could.
July 22nd, 2006 at 4:31 am
Didnt even know BMXXX was on the GC, thanks Diddy. That stopped me worring.
July 22nd, 2006 at 11:09 am
89 Commets(with this one) o.0
is this a record for this site?
July 22nd, 2006 at 2:10 pm
@MEGA_META_KNIGHT
Nope not even close
http://www.codenamerevolution.com/?p=809
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July 22nd, 2006 at 4:38 pm
scans please !!!
July 24th, 2006 at 2:09 am
Hmm…
Rayman 4 becomes a timed Wii exclusive + rumor that Ubi will have a character in SSBB = It’s Rayman
It sounds like a lot of fun, though. Rayman 3 was great and that was made on all consoles, spreading the resources thin. If the team gets to focus only on Wii, it’ll likely be AAA material.