Sega Not Giving Up On Mature Wii Games

Sega has recently taken a few attempts at developing games for the Wii that were targeted at adults rather than kids. House of the Dead: Overkill and Madworld haven't been incredibly popular, but they've done well enough to turn a profit. In Sega's eyes, this makes mature-themed games for the Wii a successful experiment, or at least one they're willing to continue. Other companies are looking to get into the act as well. EA will be releasing M-rated Dead Space: Extraction for the Wii, and Bethesda has a project in the works too.

Comments

Speaking of mature...

[hal2814]

Nintendo's next system will cater exclusively to mature games. It'll be called the MiiLF. It won't have the same mature marketshare as the upcoming Atari Cougar though.

Good Fun

[samael]

House of the Dead: Overkill was great fun. Recommended for two player zombie-killing action, 70s style!

Wiimote = sword?

[Aggrajag]

Some sort of hack and slash type game might be great with wiimote.

Re:Wiimote = sword?

[DriedClexler]

Red Steel was fun, but it's not what most people like the GP was referring to. I think he meant games with a more one-to-one mapping between the Wiimote's motions and then sword's motions, which should be possible with the Wii Motion Plus or whatever (which IMHO should have been part of functionality at launch).

In Red Steel, when you swing the Wiimote, it just maps it to one of a handful of basic sword moves, plus it allows a few combos.

Not to say it isn't fun though. Red Steel lets you shoot weapons out of enemies' hands so they surrender. If you do it to a leader, his whole group surrenders. It's pretty satisfying to charge in, make the leader surrender, and then "clank, clank, ... clankclankclankclank" as all the underlings drop their weapons.

Re:Controller

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Quite frankly, that's the first thing that went through my mind when the Wii came out: here you have this console with a wireless remote that vibrate and senses accelerations, and nobody has come up with a massively multiplayer online gangbang sort of game yet? It can't be that hard to make a dildo sleeve for the wiimote (and a snatch-shaped attachment for Sir) and come up with a piece of software that transmits accelerations and make faraway wiimotes vibrate accordingly.

It's about time.

[SSgt. Lagface]

While I'm no Sega/EA fanboy, I'm honestly getting sick of all the kiddie titles and messed-up ports when I pass the Wii section. My Wii is dusting right now, as the only games I ever play seriously with it are SSBB and Metroid Prime 3. From what I've seen, the "targeting family/casual/new gamer" stuff has gone overboard, with a lot of game companies getting tunnel vision in trying to get new audiences and as a result have abandoned the old.

Re:Controller

[FauxPasIII]

> Do more mature games require a different style controller? Move over Guitar Hero, it's time for Adult Hero.

You might not be from the U.S... things are different here. In the U.S. "mature" means over-the-top, distracting levels of violence. Sex is not allowed at any ratings level.

On my list

[HalAtWork]

I've got MadWorld, The Conduit, No More Heroes, Scarface, The Godfather, Medal of Honor: Heroes 2, Sam & Max, Resident Evil 4 & Umbrella Chronicles, Okami, Trauma Center, Excite Truck, Zelda, Blast Works.

These are all great games for hard core gamers. I admit, the Wii doesn't have every base covered, but for a bunch of games that work well with motion controls and are fun for hard core gamers, they have a decent spread. And if you wrote off games like Excite Truck or Okami, as many did, give them a second look.