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Fly through the land fast and furiously!  That’s what half of Excite Bots: Trick Racing is all about.  The other half is all about moving high speed and making those sharp turns, of course if you have the power-up you can also literally sprint!

The games is easy to play, beginners won’t have a problem playing.  Sure they might complain, but that’s only, because they’re losing!

This multiplayer racing game has 2 interesting modes: Excite Race and Poker Race.  Excite race is everything you would expect from an extreme race where you get points by doing stunts and other things, while poker mode adds some thinking to the game.

Not only to mention, but this multiplayer wii game also features 10, actually fun mini-games you can play with a friend.

Excitebots: Trick Racing Gameplay

This game is very easy to get into.  While racing the game will show instructions and short captions of what you have to do so you won’t suffer too much.  The advance moves however is kept secret.

The goal of the game is to get the most stars (usually the guy in 1^st place)

You play this racing wii game either with the wii steering wheel or the wiimote.

Just think it like you’re driving a car and you’ll be fine.  The 2 button is your gas, and pressing on the d-pad makes you use boots to go even faster.  Sometimes you’ll pick up items.  They can be used to get rid of people in your way, or to do a sort of mini game to get stars!

Ramps

While racing you’ll encounter ramps, by pulling your wiimote up and using your boost to do turbo jumps.  While in the air you can do tricks to get more stars.

Red Bars
Just follow the picture, also, remember that you have to align with your bot, so don’t go nuts swinging your wiimote.  It’s extremely frustrating spinning around, especially if you were to mess up, and start all over.

Excitebots: Trick Racing Multiplayer

A big part of this game is stars.  It’s the only way to buy new vehicles.  To get stars you have to race.  This brings us to a great way of making stars.

Nintendo WFC is available and there’s a nice betting system for all you gamblers that can instantly make you a rich man.

Nintendo WFC

Online you can race with your friends (friend code required, of course), but that’s not all.  You can also race with random people in Excite Race or Poker Race.  Once you’re in a group, chosen your vehicles and the map, you get to place bets ranging from 0-2500.

If you do well you can have the chance of double, triple, and even 10x the amount you waged.  If you are a great racer this is the best chance you have to make a lot of stars to buy new vehicles.

Versus

You race against one of your friends in a 1 on 1 race.  The person who has the most stars (which is usually the person in 1^st place) wins.

Mini Games

Here you can play by yourself or you can challenge a friend.  There are fun events involving gliding through the skies, shooting darts, bowling, and even avoid being crushed by a gigantic hand.

Conclusion

Excite Bots: Trick Racing uses the craziest and coolest high speed driving in the game.  No to mention the ability to soar through the sky for a short while can even send chills down to your competitors.

Online is still full of people to this very day, and I’m pretty sure it’s not going to die down until a long time.  The mini-games are also a fun bonus to this game as you can play some of your favorite spots in Excite Race that you skipped.

With some nice tricked out racing style, I recommend you to buy this game, but you can rent it first at Gamefly starting as low as $8.95 or Try For Free!

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Animal Crossing: City Folk is like a toned down version of life.  In life there are always some tricks, tips, or even cheats that can help you succeed in whatever you want.  This game is no exception!

Money Tricks

Okay we all have to admit that we can’t enjoy some of the essentials in life without money (food, electricity, water, clothes, you get the point), well in Animal Crossing, you don’t really need those essentials, but still having money brings you respect, pride, and a whole bunch of things you wish to buy.

Magic Rock

Everyday there is a rock that has tons of money inside it.  The more you hit it the more money pops out with bigger amounts too!  How do you know where the rock is?  You don’t.  You have to run around town with your shovel, hitting every rock you find.

If you want to maximize the amount of money you get from it, dig holes around yourself like this:

O = Rock

V = You

X = Hole

Q = Random space

QQQ
QOQ
XVX
QXQ

You have to this, because each time you hit the rock you get knocked back.  The holes prevents you from being knock back so you just have to keep on hitting the rock for money!

Stalk Market

This is a slow, but effective way to make money.  Every Sunday Joan the Boar comes to town to sell turnips.  This is pretty much a simplified version of the stock market.  You can buy turnips at 100 per space so you can’t get a lot of turnips.

Now the trick here is that everyday Tom Nook changes his price on turnips.  If he’s willing to buy it higher then what you bought if for then you my friend have made a profit.  Warning: Don’t wait too long (a week), because they’ll rot.

Another good trick is if you have friends that have Tom Nook buying for a high price, then you should go visit them for old time sakes (and to make a nice wad of cash )

Digging Up Fossils

If you see star marks on the ground then dig it up to get items.  It can be things like furnitures, pit seeds, gyroids, dinosaur fossils, or whatever your friends decided to bury.  Fossils can be identified by taking them to the museum to get them identified.  The moment it’s identified Blathers he’ll ask you to donate it.  Now it’s up to you to donate it, or sell it to make a nice fat profit…

Catching Bees

We all know bees are dangerous, but do you know they’re expensive too?  Well maybe not in life, but in Animal Crossing: City Folks.  After getting stung by bees over 40 times I finally figured out how to catch them.

1. First set it so that you can easily scroll down to your net by pressing the d-pad.
2. Then go find a bee
3. Run 2 seconds away from in any direction
4. Turn around and wait for the bees to come
5. Swing the net the moment you see them coming in screen

Fruits

Every town has native fruits.  They will cost 100 in your town.  How do you get more fruits?  Well that’s easy.  You could go visit your friends and then simply take their fruit, or you can send letters to your foolish little villagers with your native fruit inside.  Eventually they’ll send new fruits to you, but they might send you other things (still that’s a nice deal a 100 bell fruit for a nice expensive furniture)

Now once you have the fruit, if you want to be safe cut down a non fruit tree and then plant the fruit there instead, to almost guarantee its survival.

Money Trees!

First you have to get a golden shovel (explained below) you can dig a hole with it and then put money inside it.

• For every 1000 you have 1% chance that the tree will grow.  So 100,000 bell will have a 100% chance of growing.
• The problem here is that the maximum amount of bell you can get is 90,000.
• Whatever you buried is tripled.  So 10k becomes 30k.

Wisp

At the dead of night (12:00 PM) at any random day you might encounter Wisp.  Wisp is a ghost that can do some of the sweetest things in the game.  You’ll know he’s around if you find a lamp lying around in your town.

You don’t really know if he’s there, because he’s invisible.  Just run around and you’ll eventually bump into him.  He’ll ask you to look for his lamp.  Afterwards he’ll ask you to bring it to your attic and rub it.  When you do that he’ll grants you 3 options to choose (Sorry guys, no 3 wishes).  You can ask for some de-weeding, de-cockroaching in your house, or for a item.  Now there’s no trick, but if you ask for items, you can get a crown, a headwear, which is worth a 1,000,000 bell.

Balloons

If you see a balloon, shoot it down with a sling shot.  If you do you’ll find a nice free item inside it.

Dream Equipments

Silver Equipments

To get silver equipments you have to:

• Net – Find it in Tom Nooks shop.  Sometimes he’ll sell it.  This improves your chances of catching bugs
• Shovel – Sometimes past 8:00 PM in the city the cones at the sidewalk on the right side of the city may be gone.  If you go in there you’ll find Resetti’s secret HQ.  Since it’s a secret he’ll give you the silver shovel for you to keep quiet.  The shovel sometimes double the amount of money you receive from the magic rocks
• Fishing Rod – Like the Net, buy it from Tom Nook.  It helps you catch fish easier.
• Watering Can – You can easily get this by buying 50 flower seed from Tom Nook.  Then you’ll receive a letter with the can in it.  This allows you to water more spaces.
• Axe – Getting it could be hard, or easy (depends on your luck).  All you have to do is donate 500k to your town.  Then you’ll have a water fountain.  Throw the axe in and you might get a silver axe in exchange.  It’s indestructible.
• Slingshot – Buy it from Tom Nook.  It shoots two pebbles instead of one!

Golden Equipments

• Net – Catch all of the bugs.  It makes catching bugs easier, with a bigger range.
• Shovel – First you have to get 2 shovels.  Bury one of them and then wait 24 hours before you dig it up.  If you did it right you’ll have a golden shovel.  The golden shovel allows you to make money trees!
• Fishing Rod – To get this you have to catch all fishes.  With this rod you’ll have the ability to catch fishes even easier (it’s probably the fishing lure).
• Watering Can – You have to keep your town in a perfect enviorment for 15 days.  You have to talk to Pelly in the Town Hall for information.  This allows you to water even bigger area.
• Axe – You have to use the same method as the silver axe.  Not only is the golden axe indestructible,but it also chops down trees faster, just like what my grandpapa told me gold is better then metal!
• Slingshot – You have to keep on shooting the balloons to find one.  With this you get to shoot 3 pebbles at once per shot!

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Castlevania Judgment has grouped up characters from all of the Castlevania games, and they are sent to an alternate world by a mysterious man named Aeon.

In this multiplayer fighting game you’ll be playing the castlevania characters with Nintendo WFC with people online and locally with your friends.

Not only that there is the famous castle mode that lets you climb up castles fighting people after people, and eventually you’ll get accessories to dress your characters with!

This game feels like soul caliber games, so if you like that game, and want a game similar to it, this is it.

Castlevania Judgment Gamplay

23 whips-on the wall take one hit, pass it around, 86 more hits on the wall!

Okay first of all I wouldn’t say Castlevania Judgment is one of the best fighting wii games, but it’s certainly not a bad one.

In this game you can play with the classic controller, the wiimote and nunchuck, and the gamecube controller.

There are several modes such as: arcade, survival, and castle.  The mode you’ll probably be interested for a while is story mode which allows you to unlock new characters (it’s going to take a while though…).

However don’t forget training mode where you learn how to play.  If you want to be a better fighter or player in general in any game read the instructions, do the training mode, look at the list of moves, or whatever else you can to learn what you can do.

To fight you can attack, dodge/roll, defend, use items, or when your gauge at the bottom is filled, use your ultimate attack.  If you manage to hit your opponents with an ultimate attack you enter a scene where you watch your friend get hammered with attacks that’ll take half of their hp bar.

Castlevania Judgment Multiplayer

In this wii fighting game you can go online to fight with your friends and random people in a 1 on 1 battle.

I smashed you onto the floor!

The problem I realize is that there is no one looking for a wi-fi match.  So you’re only left with your friends and family locally for a fight of vampires vs. humans for the century or on Nintendo WFC with other friends (and yes even the ones you met online.)

Versus Mode

Here you can fight with a friends or a computer.

You get to choose one of the 14 characters to fight with.  Once you do that you choose an item to use, and then the map to fight in.

Nintendo WFC Mode

Like I mention earlier I’m pretty sure that there’s nobody looking for a random fight, but there is still the ability for you to fight your friends who has the copy of the game.

Conclusion

Now this game wouldn’t be my first choice of fighting games for the wii, but I certainly wouldn’t be disappointed if I got it as a present.

While the camera can get entirely agitating, the gameplay does not disappoint. The final attacks and the teleporting add a whole new edge to playing this game, cause, honestly, how many games let you teleport?!

Overall, if you’re thinking going extremely hard-core on this game, I wouldn’t recommend it to you, but if you want a fighting game that’s pretty new to your collection, I would recommend this one.

I recommend you to try renting this game at Gamefly starting as low as $8.95 or Try For Free!

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How do you get 999 stats in Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time, well it’s not easy to do, but it’s possible to do it.  That and there are more things to look for.

Stats

How to get 999 stats

If you want to get high stats you have to get growth jewels.  Growth jewels or gems are green colored.  You can get from generating your equipments.  Now you can actually add extra stat to things like damage with certain elements.

Before you start making the perfect character you should first beat the game, get 3 slotted equipments (one for each slot), and then get 3 spear, paddle, bow, rod, sword, and hammer to level 20 to get 3 growth gems of all stats (you don’t need them all of course, just what you need).

Now once you have the gems you have to learn the stat growth of the character you want to play, and then add the jewels to increase your stats to what you want while removing jewels to reach just the perfect max stat (don’t forget to calculate equipments stats too).

In The Game

Now that we got rid of everybody’s dream of max stat (which is very possible), we move on to some tips, tricks, and cheats for Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time.

Carrying Extra Items

When you have a key, or something else important, but don’t want to lose your ability to fight, you can go to a corner, and then throw it to the wall.  When you do this, the item will be stuck on your head (what a great use of your head!), and you can still fight and do other things.

Super Jump

Now this is something I found entertaining, but it doesn’t really help you in the game.  What you do here it grab someone (or something with someone on it), and then throw it.  The person on top will then jump to get as far as possible, or places you shouldn’t even be able to go to. Just be careful not to go somewhere you’re not suppose to yet.

Stack Stuff

This method is usually a useless method to get to places you can’t reach.  It’s also a waste of time, but it is fun to do sometimes.  What you have to do is just grab items and then stack them, making sure you can jump on them.  In the end you’ll have a giant tower that allows you to jump to places you shouldn’t, and would probably have an easier way to get there. Sometimes, it can be used for a substitute to blowing open rocks, like this one time in the almost end, where you blow up a rock. Instead, My brother and I made a stack.

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What’s the best way to get the city into debt?  Ghost busting of course!  Just think about it!  I’m sweeping the building for “ghosts” and then the “ghost” ran around so I have to use a particle beam to capture it, destroying everything else in the process.  However the city pays for this, so I’m all good!

This is basically what I did in the game.  You get rankings on how much money you waste destroying buildings while trying to capture ghosts as a new Ghost Buster rookie.

In this multiplayer shooter game you get to work together with a friend and highly experimental devices that could explode and blow you to somewhere you do now want to go…New Jersey!

Ghostbusters: The Video Game Gameplay

Okay while I have mentioned getting in debt by destruction of furniture and other things, but the game isn’t really about all of that.  No the game is actually about

Smashing ghosts aren't as easy they say!

catching ghost, thus the name ghost busters.

Things get going as you get into each level.  As you equip your blast stream (basically your weapon), you can basically destroy the whole level.  Everything has value so if you break it, you pay for it.

By pressing the d-pad you can switch to more weapons.  You start out with 2, but as the game moves on you get more weapons, and some upgrades.  One object is the PKE Meter.  This allows you to scan ghosts and other objects for data you can look into.  SO you gotta scan-them-all pokem- I mean Ghostbusters!

When you encounter a ghost you blast the enemy by pressing B.  Once you weaken them you smash them into the walls, and then throw a trap by pressing just Z (no swinging even though the game said so) to capture the ghost.

Be careful though, because ghost busting isn’t always a…clean job.  You have to get rid of the mess, if you know what I mean.  To do that just shake your wiimote to get rid of slime or whatever else is on you, messy, messy, messy.  Oh and if you die you’ll be revived after a brief moment.  If you teammates die you can revive them too.

Ghostbusters: The Video Game Multiplayer

What do you mean- the ghosts did it!

There is no Nintendo WFC game (and if there is I haven’t found it), but there is split screen action in this game.  Personally I find it that split screen is actually easier to control then one player.

Split-Screen

It’s a 2-player Co-Op.  You can attack each other, but that’s not gonna do squat, because they can still move properly, so no, you can’t attack each other.

You can play Co-Op by going to the firehouse and then click A on the car.  It’s impossible to miss, because the car is the only way to bring you to your missions.

If you’re a boy your partner will be a girl, and vice-versa.  You can both do whatever you want, destroy whatever you want, but when you encounter an event you both get dragged into it.

Conclusion

What can I say, it’s not a good game, and it’s an awesome game with a good sense of humor (opinions may

I'm still getting payed...right?

vary).

Another thing that I loved about this game was the ability to destroy everything around you.  This is one of the few games that allow you to pile your life with debt, where you and your friend race to be the one most in debt (another game being Dokapon Kingdom).

But the greatest part is that you know you are contributing to society by smashing ghosts into valuable and most likely very expensive furniture!

if you’re interested, you should try renting this game first at Gamefly starting as low as $8.95 or Try For Free!

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Spread your terror throughout Dokapon Kingdom by saving cities from fiends and by destroying your so call “friends” that steal your Giga-Blaze that you

Do this look familiar?

obtained and then sold it for 100,000!

Now, I have only played like a magician, so I don’t have much of an opinion of anything else, but hey it works!

In The Beginning

Now it really depends on what mode you’re doing, but I’m sure some of these tips will help you no matter what mode you are in (however if you’re playing story mode you should rush to the end of the first map, fast!)

What Class To Choose

Now personally I would choose magician here.  You might be wondering why.  Magician are weak, warriors are strong and can kill things, thieves are similar, but why magician?  Well in the beginning the magician is almost as good as warrior in fighting, plus you get magic.

There are three classes to start with Magician, Thief, and Warrior.

Magician

• Pro – They become their own type of terror when they level up and put their stats into magic later into the game (their field magic and battle magic are crazy strong), adding magic gives you magic defense, and you can’t dodge magic.
• Con – Bad start, thieves can steal your precious field magic, your pants, your hat, and you don’t get any weapons that can help with magic early on.

Thief

• Pro – Great start (one of my friend started out as a thief, made tons of cash saving cities and pleasing the king, stole all of out important items, had awesome equipment, and was like 10 levels ahead of us all), they’re fast so they can dodge attacks, and field magic easily
• Con – Later, thieving skills become more and more useless as people can start traveling to new and bigger places.

Warrior

• Pro – They’re not as great as thieves, but they’re okay, for they do decent damage to the enemies, they get their attack increased every now and then, later in the game with a lot of attack the attack increase will increase your attack to the extremes
• Con – Not much, other then

Adding Stats

As a magician I add stats into magic, and something else.  If there is a thief in the game then I’ll add speed so that I have a better chance to hit him, if not I usually put the second point into magic or hp.

Personally I don’t put any points into defense for any class, because that’s what shields and hp are for.  Defense can’t help protect you from magic, but adding HP can help you survive magic and physical attacks (this is coming from a person with 0 points into defense).

Mastering

When ever you master your job (8 kills = 1 job level, 6 job level = mastery, so 6*8= 48 battles), you get a bonus stat in a specific time every time you level up, even if you already change classes, so master your job and stick to what you’re at to eventually out stat your friends in everything, assuming they don’t do the same.

Playing The Game

At the point of no return

If you’re dead last, have nothing, and then you should consider attacking a store. When you attack a store you play a game of rock, paper, and scissors (stupid?  Yes.).  If you win you get rare items that could sell for a lot of money, but if you fail become a wanted person and will have a bounty on your head.

Getting 6’s

You might think that spinning whatever you want in the game is impossible, well that’s not true.  There’s a way for you to control what you get, but it takes skills.

My friends think that when the spinner is spinning and you hit a number 3-4 spaces before it you’ll get what you want, but I think you get it if you press the A button on the space you want you’ll get it.  We need further testing to figure it out.

Always Attack First

If you want to always attack first when in a battle there is a way.  The way is to pay attention where first and last is (of course you only have a 50-50 chance).  If you didn’t swap cards and have first the next turn your opponent will have the first card.  It always switches so make sure you remember where it is to always attack first.

The Power of Crystals

You should never underestimate the power of crystals.  Using a crystal gives you the exact amount of moves in its name (a 4 crystal allows you to move 4 spaces).  So the best way to do this is to calculate where you can go and use the crystal to get to where you want.

How to look at your possibilities

If you want to look at all of the possible spaces you can go to, press the view button to see.  This is very useful to go to places you never would expect, or just figuring out where to go.

Super Level

If you’re really behind in levels and if you somehow kill another person that is way higher level then you, you instantly become that level no matter where you are at.

Cheating On Darkling

Okay darkling is the ultimate character that only people at last place can get.  Not only are they powerful they also have powerful equipments.  These are some of they did.

Note: You can’t stop a person from becoming a Darkling if they really want to.  I killed my friend 12 times trying to stop him from going their, but eventually he got the contract, which is an item that allows him to go and become a darkling.

Taking darkling’s Things

This can only be done with a friend (or by yourself if you want to).  Basically you just rig a match against Darkling.  The Darkling strikes, you counter, the Darkling dies, and then you take of its equipments.  It’s cheap, but it works.

Personally I hate this, but my friends do it anyways…

The True Purpose Of Darkling

Now if you are planning to use the Darkling right you should wait until most of the cities are saved by your friends.  When this happens you should turn into a Darkling, and use Global Assault (after getting 200 Dark Points first of course).  Not only will you get a whole bunch of exp just for putting monsters on city, but now you can re-save the cities, evening the score with your friends.

How To Survive Darkling

Now we all know that beating Darkling is almost impossible, but that doesn’t mean you can’t survive him.  First of all never go to empty spaces that’ll give him the chance to attack you.  If you can buy some vanish, and he’ll never get the chance to even hit you, no matter what he does!

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Everybody’s Wii has their own Console Code. That’s easy, but finding them and registering isn’t so easy for some.

It’s okay if you don’t know how to do it. I had the same problem myself. I had to go spend an hour on the internet to figure out the answer.

There are two types of codes you can register Console Codes and Friend Codes go here to learn How To Set Up Friend Codes.

Console Codes allow you to send mails to your friends and other stuff.  It’s a great way if you want to trade friend codes.

Anyways to find and register your console code for you to write letters to your friends you have to:

1. From the Wii Channel page click on the bottom right Wii Message Board.
2. Then click the Create Wii message at the bottom right.
3. Click on address book, the one to the right to find your friend code.
4. On the address book click register at the bottom right and then put your friend’s friend code and you guys/gals are set for life (or until one of you get a new system).

Note: You both have to add each other or it won’t work

Done?  Good, now let’s move on to Setting Up Friend Codes

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Let’s Tap is a party game where everything, except some of the levels are unlocked.  Levels in the game are locked, but you wouldn’t want to play some advance stages if you can’t even beat the beginning one, would you?

The best part of this multiplayer wii game is that you can play through some of the games with friends, and it’ll unlock new stages as you go, assuming you didn’t already.

Let’s Tap features 5 games you can play and each one of them have 4-player multiplayer (on of them even have infinite amount of players)

Let’s Tap Gameplay/Multiplayer

Let’s Tap like its name suggest means that to play this game you tap on a table, sending a vibration to the wiimote making the game do something.  How does this

Look at that jump!

work?  I have no clue, but hey it’s a great game.

Tapping with different power (light, medium, or hard) produces different affects

There are 5 games to play, and remember you can play them all in multiplayer mode.

Tap Runner

In tap runner you are in a race against 3 other people. It’s easy to play, but hard to master.  By tapping lightly you make your character run, and by tapping hard

you make your character jump.

"Choose your tapping game"

For multiplayer you get to race with up to 4 players in all of the races.  There won’t be any CPU so it’s just you vs. your friends

Rhyme Tap

This is my favorite game (or probably the only game I’m good at…).  Think this as dance dance revolution, except no dance pads, and no direction, just tapping.

To play this you wait for the circles to go and match your circle so you can hit it.  There are 16 songs for

You know it's going to fall...

you to play.

Playing multiplayer makes you play with up to 3 other friend in any of the songs, or you can have a competition to see who’s the best starting at song #1!

Silent Blocks

Silent Blocks is like playing with jenga blocks.  You pick a block by tapping, and then you pick a direction to

pull also by tapping, and then tap with certain amount of strength to pull the block out.

If you want to really get a party you can play with infinit amout of people with just one remote, this can last for a very long time, just don’t get knock the star off of the structure.

Or you can play alchemist mode which is basically matching up three or more colors to make bricks, and then matching bricks to change colors.  Put multiplayer competition, and then you have to rush to be the first to create certain brick colors.

Bubble Voyager

You play as the brave bubble voyager as you fly through the mysterious space area shooting meteors, and avoiding certain doom by tapping.

In multiplayer mode you get to fight with 3 other friends and family in arena while avoiding meteors and snagging power-ups.

Visualizer

Here is where things get unique.  Just pick a specific game in here like fireworks for example and tap to see fireworks.

You can even make a show by selecting which of the 5 games to show up for, and how long.  Then tap away with your friends (although it’s probably best with younger children).

Conclusion

Let’s Tap is a fun unique party game that the wii has yet to see until now.  With the unique controls and the 5 fun multiplayer games it is a nice addition that let you do everything with your friends and family.

If you’re interested, I recommend you to buy this game (it’s fun and unique), but you can rent it first at Gamefly starting as low as $8.95 or Try For Free!

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Geometry Wars: Galaxies is a fast pace shooting game for the wii.  Not only does the game become crazily addictive, it can also lasts for hours in just one gaming sessions (so much regret in trying to do that…).

Anyways as a multiplayer shooter game what would you expect in this game?  Geometry Wars: Galaxies does have a multiplayer mode, with 3 different options for you and your friends to play in.

Save planets from destructions from enemy shapes.  Although the story isn’t there you’re basically destroying the enemies for geoms.

With the geoms you can buy new drones, planets, and solar system to play in!

Geometry Wars: Galaxies Gameplay

Control

Stages have themes...this one is a gravitational pull that forces you to move.

Now playing the game isn’t hard at all.  You basically control your spaceship as you fly inside maps with the analog stick.  You aim with the wiimote and press A or B to shoot.  You can use a smart bomb to clear the map by pressing C or Z.

Gameplay

In only galaxy mode you kill enemies, and they’ll drop these gold shiny things, which are geoms.  Pick them up and they’ll multiplayer the score you get for killing enemies.  It may not be much at first, but it does add up.  When you die the multiplier restarts.

In the 1 player galaxy mode you get to buy drones (a mini NPC ship) that does specific tasks.  You get to choose which drone you want to buy.  Each drone has its own special ability.

Geometry Wars: Galaxies Multiplayer War

Now we’re onto the chaos.  The game can lasts for days if you want it to, and all you have to do is survive and not die.  You get relief sometimes with the aid of extra lives and bombs, but that’s about it.

This multiplayer wii game is 2-player only so don’t expect 4 times the chaos.

There is Nintendo WFC, but like I mentioned earlier it’s a score board where you can put your score on.

Your little drone is hard at work collecting geoms for you.

There are three modes in the multiplayer mode.

Vs Mode

In this mode you play against a friend.  No you can’t attack them, bump them, or any other type of in-game interference.  However if you want to you could distract them, while you play…

No, what you do in this mode is simply annihilate more enemies and get more points then your friends.  The game is over when you both die.

Co-Op Mode

Unlike the previous mode you don’t try to get the most points.  In this mode you two work together to try and survive the onslaught of millions of enemy hoards coming at you.  Things become crazy.

Galaxy Mode

Just like the 1-player mode you can travel around solar systems saving planets.  The catch is that you don’t get drones, but you can think that your friend is your drone!   You have double the lives and bombs (6 each) for each solar system.

Conclusion

If you want a colorful shooting game where you’ll be addictive to and play as the one person being in a severally out numbered situation, this game is for you.  Not only can you play with friends in multiplayer mode it’ll be double the risk, because sharing lives is not always fun!

if you’re interested, you should try renting this game first at Gamefly starting as low as $8.95 or Try For Free!

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Thrillville: Off the Rails is a multiplayer simulation game.  The game is simulation, but the multiplayer isn’t so much.

Thrillville is not a real theme park so don’t worry if you never heard of it, but worry if you have never played a good theme park building simulation game, because this game is one of the best.

Thrillville: Off the Rails Gameplay

Thrillville: Off the Rails is a very simple and interactive game for the wii.  You can just jump into the multiplayer action with 50 games, some you have to unlock.

There are fun mini-game like these where you and a friend go shoot enemies. Too bad the controls are a bit sluggish

But if you want to enjoy those roller coaster rides you will want to go to the story mode.

In the story you’re a new manager to the thrillville industry.  As the new manager you must keep your theme park up and working, and stop the evil plots of global-joy.

Create your own thriving theme park, and then hang around making fun of everybody, or just listen to their complaints and compliments.

Here you can do anything you want:

• Buy rides, stalls, and games.
• Play mini games involving the buildings you buy.
• Build roller coasters.
• Mingle and befriend your visitors.
• Do missions that involve doing something involving things mentioned above and more.

Every time you complete missions or just plain buy and play new things you get thrill points.  Once you get enough you promote onto the next level, and eventually can move on in the game.

Thrillville: Off the Rails Multiplayer

You have to unlock some of it, but you get to play mini games with your friends. You can play a ton of games, via wiimote swinging, or just plain old button mashing.  You can access the 50 games at the start menu.  There’s a giant range of games to play.

Of course you can and your friends could build a park and then pretend you’re actually riding a ride (that you can actually go on, did I mention no waiting?), and then just go with the flow.

Conclusion

This game is a half decent social simulator, but that’s not the point. The point of the game is to play mini games, and ride your own rides. And, if you want, you can make your own ride, with some…limitations, like energy or money.  No problem what-so-ever!

if you’re interested, I recommend you to try renting this game first at Gamefly (although 50 mini-games are nice) starting as low as $8.95 or Try For Free!

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