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The 27 Known Wii Launch Titles
Via Joystiq comes a long list of the launch-day titles for the Nintendo Wii, posted at Nwizard. I was aware that they had quite a few coming out around launch, but 27 is pretty impressive. Selections include highly anticipated titles like Red Steel and Twilight Princess, as well as several titles that I personally am looking forward too, such as Metroid Corruption, Trauma Center: Second Opinion, and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers.
They got 27 Wein^H^H^H Wii titles to be released on the day the console will be released.
Sounds like a solid start, but I am not really impressive, Zelda is a port af a Gamecube game, MetroidPrime is the successor of Gamecube game with some new controls, so are Need for Speed, Metal Slug, Madden, MonkeyBall, FF:Chronicals and plenty of others. That list reads like a "been there, done that". What I still miss for the Wii is something as awesome as Mario64 was for the N64. This all feels like Nintendo has designed this cool new controller and then couldn't figure out what to do with it, so we get ports, successors and stuff. So far WiiSports and Trauma Center seem to be only game that actually require the new controller, while the rest could have been done with a regular controller with only little changes. So while I hope for the best, I also fear for the worst. Wii so far is interesting, but not exciting.
Be careful not to drop your controller while in the shower level. Otherwise, you might get a rude introduction to your opponent's Wii!