My first Wii Experience!
After class this morning, Tyler and I walked down to Pioneer Place. After dining on our lunch, we hopped up to EB Games and were shocked to see two fellows standing with their arms extended, staring at a screen. We had seen a Wii display last week, sitting dark and depressed. However, this week, it was alive — alive with Excite Truck!The two aforementioned fellows appeared to be doing quite well with the Wiimotes, and we found out, after 10 minutes of waiting, why. There was a small group of people waiting to play when we arrived, but they soon trickled away. Tyler and I finally understood that the two players appeared to have no intention of leaving. The term “Hogging” came to mind. Thankfully, with enough patience, dead batteries and asking them how many more races they were going to play, they left — and we got to play.What can I say, I was just excited to try it out, but Tyler was quick to make a point of evaluating the Wii on its actual value, not just its (awesome) gimmicks. We both agreed that the graphics just really aren’t that strong, if we talked about textures, models and such. However, at least in Excite Truck, perspective, blur and general animation was beautiful.The obvious focus was the Wiimote. At first, it felt quite touchy, but within 30 seconds I (as well as Tyler) had the hang of it. Several people came up to us as we played and were quite confused, until they saw that we were actually holding the controller. One odd thing, was that there is an ‘A’ button (possibly a ‘B’ button), a D-pad and ‘1′ and ‘2′ buttons. That doesn’t really speak to me, but considering each game can use the controller in any numbers of way, I suppose I could get used to it.Overall, it just whetted my appetite to play a game using both the Wiimote and the Nunchuk — mainly Zelda! One thing I was not prepared for was how many people seemed surprised by how small it was and how the controller worked. I’ve been paying attention to its development for so long, it was surprising to me that others haven’t. For Tyler and I, though, we were quite happy to finally be able to get our hands on one and prepare ourselves for owning the Revolution (I know, I know, it’s called a Wii)!