IGN Wii-k in Review podcast - summary

[Ikohn4ever]

- MP3:C is at the IGN offices. They are under embargo so they cannot talk about it in detail. Very impressed, game is atmospheric and scary at parts.
- Bozon likes precision of Wiimote for MP3:C
- Lots of MP3:C next week
- WiiWare titles discussed (same info we posted earlier)
- Medal of Honor Heroes 2 discussion
- Peer discusses how 60 FPS looks instantly more impressive, seems to allude to MP3:C
- Boogie talk
- Madden 08 Wii talk. 08 better than 07. 360>PS2>Wii>PS3.
- Escape from Bug Island talk
- Pokemon Trainer in Super Smash Bros. Brawl talk.
- Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 talk. Better than 07 but not living up to potential
- Dewy’s Adventure in IGN offices but hasn’t been played yet
- Mercury Meltdown Revolution comes out September 18th for $20
- MySims talk, team seems impressed. Definitely Animal Crossing/Harvest Moon approach
- Endless Ocean talk - team seems split. Matt likes, Bozon wants more to do
- Perrin Kaplan Nintendo Minute editorial - Nintendo read Matt’s lack of hype article. MP3:C advertising coming, but form is unknown.
- Luminous Arc - 7.8
- Madden 08 on DS has better online than the Wii version..
- Rune Factor - 8.4
- Games Convention talk, Table Tennis there, no Manhunt 2, Nintendo to show off who knows what
- Haven’t played Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games
- Call of Duty 4 DS was nice.
- N-Space’s Wii project talk, no specifics
- THQ Rainbow Studio’s game - ATV game. IGN has the exclusive in a few weeks.
- Metroid Prime 3 shows the flaws in Metroid Prime 2
- Mario Kart Wii talk
- Don’t know about any unannounced Nintendo-developed hardcore titles, but do know about Nintendo-published titles developed by other parties. Some games that were initially very hardcore are now less so - hardcore title list may be thinning out.
- Battalion Wars expected to be at Leipzig
- Matt has seen some pretty games recently
- Contemplate reasons for Galaxy’s superior visuals to other Wii titles - longer time with tech, the fact that the game’s set in small areas
- Matt thinks Animal Crossing will be coming out in 2008 and will be very similar to the DS/GCN versions.
- IGN don’t expect much in the way of MMO’s on Wii - not Nintendo’s vision.
- Next week embargo lifts - embargoed on certain levels. Will soon release videos that truly show the game’s visuals - much better than the compressed footage Nintendo is showing you. Will talk lots more about it in next week’s podcast.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=181416


MP3 seems to be on target for excellence

 

[lanzarlaluna]

What were the flaws in MP2 exactly? I thought it was a pretty polished game.

 

[dothog]

These guys need to stop using embargo. They used it last week to much confusion, and this week they're sprinkling it everywhere. Next week it's gonna be, "Matt embargoed a BK Whopper right before discussing his new embargo on EA's embargo." I thought I knew what the word meant before IGN took hold of it. Now it's a new beast. I hope they get hold of and reassign a few more words--somebody should feed them donnybrook.

 

[spiwak]

[quote name='The Crotch']That can be good or bad. Do you mean that 3 makes the flaws in 2 seems obvious, or that the flaws in 2 are creeping up in 3?[/quote] Something about it makes me think that it's the first. I think they're saying MP3 is lacking these flaws of the second.

 

[Clemenceau]

At least they aren't embargoing reviews under 9 *cough madden cough*

 

[pittpizza]

Whats the name of that chick in your sig Ikohn?

On a seperate note. I played and really loved the first Metroid Prime, then got echoes and got maybe 2/3rds of the way through and stopped playing. I didnt really like the Aether world where you had to light up the little pods of safety. It was a little too dark for me relative to the first prime. I am really excited about Corruption b/c first person shooters on the Wii are a blast.