Prince of Persia: Rival Swords

Prince of Persia: Rival Swords is the first from the Prince of Persia franchise to come to Nintendo Wii. For other consoles, the game is named Prince of Persia: Two Thrones. Having a 1 year lapse before release, we hoped that this game has some added features from the Two Thrones, however there aren't any. The game has a great action adventure elements, and by addition of the motion controls making it even better. Prince of Persia: Rival Swords has a nice smooth and seamless transition between narration, fighting and platforming. This game as a great believable voice work sucking all the players into the magical world of ancient Persia. The video quality a little bit unimpressive, but this game is still a good one to have.

Verdict: 7/10

Red Steel 2

Red Steel 2, the second instalment from the gun slinging sword slashing Red Steel franchise. The game continues the story theme from the wild west background and the action of shooting and sword fighting all in one package. Red Steel 2 now come fully compatible with Wii Motion Plus, thus making the controls reliable and not frustrating as its previous instalment. Red Steel 2 is packed with great visuals, and the list of movement players can do will surely make them come again to play in the world. Even though its predecessor has made a fan base, Red Steel 2 still need to polish on the story line and the characters development. Red Steel 2 is a good game to play, and with swords and guns, what else can a player asks for?

Verdict: 7.5/10

Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll

Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll is the second instalment of the Super Monkey Ball series. As Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz took advantage of the Wii Remote, Super Monkey Ball: Step & Roll take advantage of the Wii Balance Board. Instead of controlling the monkey inside a ball with the wii remote, now players have to control the movement of the monkey by balancing their body on the Wii Balance Board. Players will need to steer the monkey ball from start to a target, and collect as many bananas along the way. There are also several things to avoid along the way, like falling and hitting the enemies. Sadly, there are some modes that have been taken out from the franchise, thus making this instalment looks like a little bit step back from its predecessor. Super Monkey Ball: Step and Roll is a good game to utilise the Wii Balance Board, however, the unresponsive controls might frustrate.

Verdict: 5.5/10

Rapala's Fishing Frenzy

Rapala's Fishing Frenzy is the second game from the Rapala's franchise to be on Nintendo Wii. Its previous instalment, Rapala's Tournament Fishing has a bad graphics and gameplay, leaving a lot of place to upgrade. Don't be deceived by its game box art, this game is not aimed for children, instead this game is a arcade-ish, simulation-ish fishing game. This game come together with a rod and reel attachments for the Wii Remote and Nunchuk so that players will have a real feel of reeling the fish onto the boat. Rapala's Fishing Frenzy fell in a little bit of short in the appeal, choices (lures, reels, locales, etc) and motion control. The game just doesn't get to us. 

Verdict: 5.5/10

Muramasa: The Demon Blade

According to a lot of online game reviewers, Muramasa: The Demon Blade is a great game to play. We were very sceptical about the claim, until we finally get our hands on this 2D action RPG game. Muramasa: The Demon Blade has a different touch on RPG world, instead of powering up the character with attributes, shields and weapons, this game only focuses on finding new swords to level up. There are a lot of swords to collect and in each has a special strength and suitable to fight certain enemies. Players will be immediately suck up into Muramasa's world because of the beautiful background and intense sword fighting. There are also a lot of intense boss battle, and thanks to the game design, players will find save spots right before fighting any bosses. Murama: The Demon Blade is a definite game to have, it is just 2D gaming at its best.

Verdict: 8/10

Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles

Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles is the latest instalment from Resident Evil franchise to be ported to Nintendo Wii. This game from Capcom took the franchise from a FPS approach in other platforms and turn it into a rail-shooting game. Don't get us wrong, this game still have the best part of the the resident evil franchise. Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles has a long story line campaign and has replayability values. Even though this game is a rail-shooting type it still has a lot of places to explore and enemies to fight. However, this game has some shortcomings such as no drop-in drop-out second player game play and AI partner is just useless. There is also problem with the camera shaking pretty bad, making it difficult to shoot precisely. Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles is a good game, however this franchise need to polish their next instalment to be better than this. 

Verdict: 6/10

Heatseeker

Heatseeker is a fun combat flight simulation game. In this game, players will have to fly currently available combat aircrafts and shoot the enemies flying a great aircraft themselves. The controls is great, making shooting down a lot of enemy airplanes a lot of fun. Heatseeker however neither have a great graphics nor a great voice acting. There is no multiplayer online or offline and there is no variety in mission selections. Final words, Heatseeker is a nice game to have, just to waste time and forget about real problems. Shoot all the enemies and just have fun.

Verdict: 6/10

Trauma Center: Second Opinion

Trauma Center: Second Opinion is the first medical simulation game on Nintendo Wii. The game was originally on Nintendo DS, and has been remake to fit the Wii. In Trauma Center: Second Opinion, players will take control as a physician to treat patients and go through medical treatment and operations. The game has a fast paced gameplay and has an interesting anime like story line. There are several difficulty settings available in the game thus making it easy to do the extra difficult levels towards the end of the game. Trauma Center: Second Opinion does make use of the Nintendo Wii control schemes to mimic the real life experience in surgical procedures. Some of the game requires a high precision treatment but that is just a minor problem. No wide screen support, but this game still is a good buy. A great game to inspire future doctors and physicians.

Verdict: 7.5/10

Bionicle Heroes

Bionicle Heroes is what Lego fans looking forward to play on their consoles. Even though it has humorous cut scenes and some beautiful visual elements to cling on, this game still fails in many parts making it difficult to be like upon. Bionicle Heroes was pretty lame with a lot of parts for improvements. First of all, the game is pretty repetitive, and players will be easily get bored after some time. The control method is busted, and the developer has to make do with auto targeting to cover up their mistakes. The background music is worse, where majority of the game only repeats the same music again and again. Worst part of all, all of the characters are invincible. Players do not need for any hiding, or tactics when they're invincible, its just point click and watch. Well, there is nothing interesting here, just skip this one.

Verdict: 3/10

DJ Hero 2

DJ Hero 2 came to the industry when the market to the rhythm and music game is in a decline. In this game, players are in charge to mimic the DJ inside the game to produce a nice music to hear. Improving from its predecessor DJ Hero 2 serves a multiplayer mode, a freestyle mode and of course a new song roster. 2 players now can play simultaneously online or offline against each other trying to show off to friends their disk spinning skills. With ample amount of new songs, DJ Hero 2 is good to be played as a single player. Show off the DJ skills and let the party started. Special DJ peripheral is needed to play this game.

Verdict: 9/10