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If you've been following this blog religiously--and why shouldn't you be?--you'll already have read Paul's excellent
preview
of
Wii Sports Resort
a short while ago and then also wondered my coverage of Nintendo was so light during and directly after E3. Well, because of the hectic nature of E3 I just didn't get as much time to spend with Nintendo's goods as I had hoped to, which is why I was pleased that Nintendo chose to hold a "mini-E3" for a select group of journalists this past week, allowing me to get to grips with some of their great upcoming titles--including
Wii Sports Resort
.
As a result I managed to gleam some pretty interesting facts. For example, the simple fact that
Wii Sports Resort
is going to make your
Wii Sports
diskc essentially useless. Why? Because it includes new versions of
Golf
and
Bowling
, both of which make use of the Wii MotionPlus to great effect. Now, spin in
Bowling
is much more subtly effected by the way you throw the remote (er, remember, not literally) and
Golf
features a fantastic improvement in that your hits really are accurate to the way you swing the remote. If you slice, you really slice. It's worlds away from the original title, which (arguably) only showed up how flawed the original, MotionPlus-lacking Wii Remote was.
There are more games than that, though. My secret favourite, actually, might be
Canoeing
. Actually misnamed in the game I played--any good Canadian would be aware that my little Mii was kayaking--it was as realistically tiring as canoing can be, with the rythmic sweeping of the Wii Remote oar reminding me of the canoe trip I made to Algonquin Park last year (the most shatteringly exausting, but beautiful, holiday I've ever taken.)
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