The game will also offer a 'variety of control options' including the Wii Wheel, a plastic steering wheel that allows you to clip the Wiimote to the reverse. Battle Mode, a staple of Mario Kart games since the SNES, will finally be playable online, too, and Fils-Aime hinted that the number of supported players could be big - although said we'd have to wait to find out more. Mario Kart Wii finally raced out of the shadows of its stable-mates, too, as Nintendo promised a global launch in Q1 2008 with worldwide online play at the centre of its new features. Mario's confirmed release date was a weight off our mind. The game will be playable at E3 this week, although a release date is yet to be announced. Demonstrations included a one-legged stretch, step aerobics with a rhythm-action element, sideways twists, head tennis (football) and press-ups, with videos pointing to an array of others. When you start to play, it measures your centre of gravity and body-mass index (BMI), and allows you to track this information as you return to the game daily through a range of Brain Age-style charts for the whole family. Brawl, a new Mario Kart game, several new Wii peripherals and a pledge from Nintendo president Satoru Iwata 'to destroy the psychological barrier that separates veteran gamers from novice gamers'.īut for all the big names (there were enough that a demonstration of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass for DS was practically a footnote), the title that's likely to dominate headlines is Wii Fit - arguably a spiritual successor to Wii Sports and the one game shown that's most likely to help level the playing field for games and achieve the mass-market recognition that Nintendo so obviously craves.īuilt around a unique, wireless step aerobics platform that measures weight and balance called the Wii Balance Board (price TBC), Wii Fit includes over 40 aerobic, yoga and muscle conditioning activities as well as balance-based games. Nintendo's US boss Reggie Fils-Aime today declared that now is Nintendo's time to lead as he brought to a climax an E3 conference that saw firm release dates for Super Mario Galaxy and Super Smash Bros.

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