In quick summary:

1. Capcom has no plans to bring Okami to the Wii
2. 25 weapons in Ghost Squad, thermal and night vision goggles
3. Ubisoft used Dr. Tom Cobb of McGill University for their word game, four cartoon coaches, 11 different exercises and a 15,000-word dictionary is included
4. Carnival Games boasts twenty games in one from skee-ball, a dunk tank, a shooting gallery and 15 more bonus games as well such as a fortuneteller and whack-a-mole, you earn tickets for every game you play to gain prizes and four players support
5. Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground will expand on the Nail the Trick gameplay which was introduced in Project 8 by adding Nail the Grab and Nail the Manual maneuvers to the mix, you can create and customize skate videos
6. Battalion Wars 2 will hit the Wii this September
7. Soul Calibur Legends development started in early 2006, the game wasn’t originally meant to be exclusive to the Wii, game is being developed by a dream team of developers from Tekken, Ace Combat and Soul Calibur series, the game isn’t just your ordinary “hack-n-slash” game where games usually wave the controller around without any sense of timing, game has an Egyptian ruin as part of the worlds included in the game, bosses will pretty much fill the entire screen…story: A 16th-century empire is on the brink of destruction and involves Siegfried with his gradual transformation into the “maleficent Nightmare”…the game picks up right after Soul Blade…game will support 480p, 16:9 and 60fps…the team wants to take advantage of the Wii hardware (graphically)
8. Tomb Raider Anniversary: Wii Remote aims Lara’s weapons in “real time”, nunchuk could be used for a quick dodge by flicking it in any direction or used as a grappling hook, game will include “Wii specific puzzles” that could only be done by the Wiimote, Crystal Dynamics is excited to work with Wii and the game gives them the experience to create a future original IP
9. Final Fantasy: The Crystal Bearers - The game takes place in the Chronicles world, which includes the four races from Crystal Chronicles…the game starts you off as a “mature hero”, meaning the hero is more complete unlike the usual Final Fantasy titles where the hero is younger and weaker (less experienced)…game is following the Final Fantasy tradition of being “very story-driven”, lots of cinematic events etc
10. Team Ninja’s Itagaki interview excerpt: “(Note: he wants to see Pikmin 3 on Wii…) I think it’s (Wii) a very interesting piece of hardware, and it’d be interesting for us to challenge that area as well. The Wii has kind of carved its own niche within the home console arena. It’s almost in an entire category by itself. I do think that it’s totally different from the DS, though…I think it would depend on how you make it (a hard-core action title on Wii). You would really have to design it for the strengths of the hardware. If you used the kind of control scheme that most developers are using right now for the Wii and tried to do a really hard-core action game, I think people would just throw up their hands and say “No, we can’t deal with that”. The Wii has its own reason for existence. If you don’t adapt what you’re doing to fit that, then there’s not much point in bringing an action game to the platform. (regarding possible Wii action game) I’m currently brain-training about that right now (laughs).”
11. Eiji Aonouma would love to make a “Wind Waker” for the Wii.
12. Geometry Wars for Wii offers the basic Retro Evolved game with a new 50-level galaxies game with new enemies, new multiplayer component will be in the game, game offers eight hours of gameplay

Game Ratings:
Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition - 9.0/10
Ratatouille - 7.5/10
Scarface: The World is Yours - 7.5/10
Harry Potter: OotP - 7.0/10
Pokemon Battle Revolution - 6.5/10
The BIGS - 6.0/10
Legend of the Dragon - 5.5/10

Next Month - Metroid Prime 3, Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 and WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2008.

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