Gamers Evolved

Nintendo Wii prides itself on bringing the best and most inventive games to those who love to play – but who also needed to get off the couch and get some exercise. In keeping with this they have created the new Wii Fit game.

The new Wii Fit game requires users to play on a plastic slap that is pressure sensitive and costs $90. With it you receive a number of fitness tracking and exercise software. The board is larger than that of a weight scale and only an inch high. It will communicate to the Wii console wirelessly.

Launching on May 20th, 2008 in the United States is Sony PS3’s Singstar a music game. This game has already been in the European market for some time. The Sony Playststion Blog showed details of the PS3 Singstar game.

The Singstar disc will come with thirty songs, in addition to that you can go to the Singstore that will have about two hundred downloadable songs for about a buck and a half a piece. Each song will come with a video performance, you can expect Sony to add 20 to 50 songs to the Singstore monthly.

Rock Revolution was revealed this week at the Konami Gamer’s Night and it was confirmed that it would be released on the PS3, Wii, DS, and Xbox 360. The game is said to feature more than 40 cover songs on the disc which will be “the most realistic drum peripheral on the market.” It will also support guitar and bass as well as the vocals and drums. 

Interesting, Wii and DS versions will seemingly be stripped down and/or optimized for their respective strengths. Online multiplayer will not be supported on either, but the Wii version supports air drumming and air guitar like Disney’s forthcoming Ultimate Band, and the DS version will support vocals.

Cameron Suey the producer of the new Star Wars: The Force Unleashed stated that, “Between the Xbox 360 and the PS3, if we’ve done our job right, they’ll be indistinguishable. We really wanted to make the same sort of polished, high-end next-gen experience on both those versions.”

He went on to explain that both versions will be void of the multiplayer feature because it would have distracted them from putting everything into the story line and all of the features needed for the single player mode.

I think it’s safe to say that Steven Spielberg has enough experience when it comes to developing action games. He helped put together the entire Medal of Honor series –which were based off of the film Saving Private Ryan (which was his film). He stated this week that he is on the second round of studying and playing through his new game for PC – Crysis.

We imagined that his first time being a true videogame creative director would include war, guns, and blazing glory. Instead we find out that the game is a cross between Jenga and Tetris. Apparently Spielberg is separating himself from the action games and movies that he is so well known for and getting in touch with his childhood memories.