21 Upcoming Wii Games to Drool Over

• By Alicia Ashby
• September 12, 2008 12:51 PM PST
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#11: Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop

ETA: 2009
Why You Should Give a Damn: Want to kill a shopping mall full of zombies? Then the Wii version of Dead Rising is your game. Running on the Resident Evil 4 Wii engine, Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop boasts motion controls and tons of zombies to hack through on every screens. Try to survive as time passes around you, making critical decisions about who to save and when to play it safe. Wield a fantastic variety of weapons scavenged from the mall around you, including katanas and a wide variety of gag weapons. While the Wii can't handle quite as many zombies on screen as the Xbox 360, we'll gladly trade that for less Otis and, oh yeah, text that 70 percent of the population can read!

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#10: Mario Super Sluggers

ETA: August 25, 2008
Why You Should Give a Damn: Wii Baseball's fun and all, but wouldn't it be better if you could hurl fireballs, eggs, and magic rainbows all over the field? Of course it would, that's why Mario Super Sluggers exists. Super Sluggers takes the addictive controls from Wii Baseball and matches them up with the fantasy-sports vibe as seen in the GameCube's Mario Superstar Baseball. Create dream teams that mix and match the 42 available characters (including Miis!), and have them battle it out across ten arenas in day or night conditions. Play Challenge Mode to gather characters for your team as part of an adventure story. We've already seen one Mario sports winner thus far on the Wii with Mario Strikers Charged... can the plumber go two-for-two?

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#9: Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World

ETA: November 18, 2008
Why You Should Give a Damn: The long-awaited sequel to the GameCube's greatest RPG is coming to the Wii, with new Wii Remote support. In Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, you'll be able to navigate your world with a simple point-and-click system using the Wii Remote pointer. Enjoy sidequests at your local guild and play a variety of mini-games. In battle, maneuver a party of up to four members to exploit the Flex Range Element Enhanced Linear Motion Battle System (which is similar to Tales of Innocence's Battle System) to do extra elemental damage to your foes. You can also exploit elemental alignments in order to capture, breed, and add any of the game's over 200 monsters to the party to fight as an AI-controlled ally. It's like Pokemon, except you actually cares what happens in this story.

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#8: Deadly Creatures

ETA: Early 2009
Why You Should Give a Damn: Imagine you're a spider, or maybe a scorpion. The world is teeming with other creatures, all enemies or prey. Some you can defeat, easily, while others are beyond your power. You travel through a desert world, made enormous by your tiny size, while you can crawl on any surface. Creatures like snakes, lizards, and humans are enormous creatures with the power to wipe you out instantly... but you can fight back, too, if you're smart and quick. Deadly Creatures takes this exact approach to gameplay, and the result is an action game unlike anything else. Be a deadly scorpion or desert tarantula and see how long you could survive. It doesn't look like there'll be a game adaptation of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids anytime soon, so we'll have to make do with this.

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#7: Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers

ETA: Early 2009
Why You Should Give a Damn: It's right there in the title: the game has girls in bikinis and zombies--do you really need another reason to want to play Onechanbara? Well, in addition to the game's brilliant premise, it also plays a lot like Devil May Cry only with a hell of a lot more blood. As you slaughter enemies in the game, your weapons accumulate gore and blood making them more difficult to handle and weaker overall. Finally, a game that accurately depicts the results of violence.

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#6: Fatal Frame IV

ETA: Early 2009
Why You Should Give a Damn: The latest addition to the acclaimed Fatal Frame survivor-horror franchise, Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse is exclusive to the Wii, developed in a partnership between Tecmo and Suda51's Grasshopper Manufacture (who also brought us No More Heroes for the Wii). Use your camera to fight off hostile ghosts, or to take photographs of friendly and neutral ghosts. Use the Wii Remote to control your flashlight, or enter first-person mode to control your camera. Enjoy eerily beautiful graphics that push the Wii's limits, with no load times to stop the action as you move from room to room. Solve the mystery that haunts three girls who survived a kidnapping on a mysterious island, and return years later to try and unlock their repressed memories.

#5: The Conduit

ETA: Early 2009
Why You Should Give a Damn: Who says you've got to own an Xbox 360 to get your sci-fi first-person shooter on? What looks to be a cross between Killzone and Perfect Dark, visually speaking, High Voltage's The Conduit can give you all that along with Wii Remote controls that'll make you never want to touch analog sticks again. Fight the alien Drudge that spawn endlessly from Conduits placed in every level. Destroy Conduits to secure the level, and use your ASE droid to solve devious puzzles. Customize every aspect of your controls, from which button does what to pointer sensitivity and running speed. Most importantly, it will have online multiplayer, which we've been aching to have on the Wii thus far. If this game works out, we can finally get our frag on, Wii-style.

#4: de Blob

ETA: September 26, 2008
Why You Should Give a Damn: de Blob is an upcoming puzzle game about rebellion against a drab, grey world. As the titular Blob, you can tweak the evil overlords by bouncing off the landscape and the citizens to splatter them with glorious fun-giving color. Start as a clear Blob and then pick up color by slamming into the paint cans hidden throughout the city. Once you've got a color, then slide, bounce, and smear your new color all over the city. As the color brings life back to your surroundings, the soundtrack becomes more lively, with every new shade adding new instruments to the tune. Sorta sounds like Katamari Damacy in reverse, which we can dig.

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#3: Mega Man 9

ETA: September 2008
Why You Should Give a Damn: Feel like new games are too weak, too easy for you? Sick of seeing bleeding edge graphics hyped like nothing else about a game could matter? Want to play something that'll kick your ass and make you come back for more? You want to play Mega Man 9, a hardcore old-school blast from the franchise's NES past. Enjoy pure 8-bit gameplay and a kickin' chiptune soundtrack as you try to beat eight new Robot Masters... if you can survive their levels. Spike pits, disappearing platforms, giant enemies with punishing attacks, Mega Man 9's got everything that ever made you throw a controller across the room. While this game is promised for other consoles, Mega Man and Nintendo have the strongest history, and the Wii Remote is the most natural, NES-feeling controller on the market. Who needs Achievements when you can have authenticity?!

#2: Wario Land: Shake It!

ETA: September 22, 2008
Why You Should Give a Damn: A 2D platformer, hand-drawn by the artists at Production I.G.? Yes, please. Nintendo is resurrecting Wario's first game series, the Game Boy Wario Land games, with a spectacular new version for the Wii, Wario Land: Shake It!. Smash and bash your way through puzzling levels hiding lots of gold to hoard and secret treasures to nab. Grab hold of enemies and shake them into submission, or Stun the entire screen with Wario's huge ground pound! Toss enemies into switches and other useful targets, and aim perfectly by tilting the Wii Remote. You can even buy maps from Wario's old nemesis Captain Syrup, who may or may not really be on your side this time. You want a hardcore Nintendo franchise for the holidays? Here it is.

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#1: MadWorld

ETA: Early 2009
Why You Should Give a Damn: Your name is Jack, and you're trapped in DeathWatch, a violent, extreme death sport. You have a chainsaw strapped to your arm and a world full of deadly props like spiked walls, metal girders, and sign posts. Your goal is to kill the enemy, in as brutal and spectacular a fashion as possible, but without becoming dehumanized by DeathWatch's terrorist organizers. So with the crowd cheering and color commentary praising your every move, you need to go out and tear your opponents (sometimes quite literally) apart. With stylish black-and-white graphics and a hardcore rap soundtrack, MadWorld is a comic book thrill ride from hell. If Sin City and Gears of War had a baby, that spawn would be called MadWorld.

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