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Metal Slug Anthology is a scrolling shooter that contains 7 Metal Slug games throughout the decade.

This multiplayer Wii game includes Metal Slug 1-6 and X.  6 could only be founded at arcades, but not anymore, now it’s part of a console.

The reason this game is a multiplayer Wii game is, because there are 2-player Co-Op in every single one of these 7 games.

Not only that, but you and your friends can adjust the difficulty, the amount of lives you get, the amount of continues, and some other nifty features, such as saving in mid-game.

Metal Slug Anthology Gameplay

Controls

This multiplayer Wii game is very simplistic.  I’ll be using the Wiimote.  You move with the D-pad.  Shoot with 1 and jump with 2.  Shake the Wiimote to throw a

Just by ducking and attacking, one can easily destroy a tank!

grenade.  Be careful, because you only have a number of those.

Gameplay

Metal Slug is known to be extremely action-packed, fun, and frantic.  This is true about all 7 games in this package.  You run around in each stage with a pistol.  You can kill things by shooting them, this includes destructible buildings.

Sometimes you’ll run into tied up prisoners.  Shoot them to free them.  Then stand next to them and they’ll give you items or even weapons they could have used to free themselves!  A fair warning to you though: each weapon you pick up only has a certain amount of ammo.  Once you used them all you throw the gun away.

After jumping, ducking, and shooting your way to the end of the mission you’ll encounter a boss fight, which usually includes some gigantic machines.

Metal Slug Anthology Multiplayer

This multiplayer shooting game doesn’t have Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection or anything online related.  What it does have though is the ability to play 7 games with

Two people = Double the power, but it also means sharing time...

multiplayer with one of your friends.  The action is frantic and it can be as easy or hard as you want it to be.

2-Player Co-Op

To do this you just need to have 2 controllers (a Gamecube controller would be fine too), and then just go into one of the 7 games.  Get in the game (character selection), and let them press Start to get in.  That’s all you have to do!

Conclusion

Metal Slug Anthology is a fun multiplayer shooting game.  In fact just one of the Metal Slug games would have been plenty of fun, but not only do you get 7 games you also get some added features.

With unlimited continues you can practically play through the whole game as you wish.  If you want to beef up the challenge then get rid of the unlimited life and make it limited.  Battling through this game with your life on the line is exhilarating.  That and getting a friend to take a hit for you is also very fun to watch.

if you’re interested, you should 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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Bomberman is a classic game that started all the way from the PS1.  Now that’s pretty old.  However the series is still going on with another game for the Wii.  Bomberman Land!  With this game it brings you mini-games to play, a story mode to beat, and the classic Battle Mode!

I’ll show you some ways to get the edge (if you have yet to figure them out anyways…).

Story Mode

Accessorizing

If you want to win, you have to look good while doing it.  Now you may have one or two questions like “Do we have to?” and “These aren’t exactly the most stylish clothes”, well the answer is yes you have to.  The more stylish you are the more tokens you can secretly receive for each round.

*Every Token matters*

Practice The Mini-Games

I’m not kidding.  Save your game move on in the story find out what mini-games there are and practice them.  These mini-games aren’t something you can laugh at.  Sure there are like what 1 easy mini-game out of every 10.

Plus with your limited amounts of token it’s like trying to beat the high score in a arcade with only 10 coins left!

Battle Mode

Trapped Corner Tactic

A good strategy to get kill is when a person goes into a corner.  When someone does that try to quickly run to their only exit and drop a bomb.  This will kill them no matter what (unless they have the bomb moving power-up).

Getting Back Into The Game

If you died and become the canon, there’s a chance for you to come back to life.  All you have to do is shoot a bomb, and kill someone.  If you do that they die, and you come back in their place.

Bomb Chain Reaction

Now I don’t do this often (or ever in this case), but if you know how far your bomb explode to you and you have multiple bomb dropping powers you can set a bomb and put another one.  When the first one explodes the second one will blow up the moment it touches it.  This is good for attacking more then one area with large explosions without giving your opponent the chance to find a safe spot.

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Boom Blox is back!  You’ll still have the old way of playing (Blast, Grab, and Pull), however now there’s a new one…Sling!

Alongside with these new features are new ways to play the games.  May it be shooting canons, playing hockey, or whatever you’ll have a bash party!

Personally I think the multiplayer mode to this game also received more focus.  So be prepared for more multiplayer treats.

Also in this multiplayer Wii game you’ll also be able to create and share your creations online.  With this, the game will never get old.

Boom Blox: Bash Party Gameplay

If you have the first game then you already know the basics of Boom Blox: Bash Party.  If you don’t know that’s still okay, because it has been statistically not proven that your first instance would be correct.

Anyways you’ll be selecting each puzzle from an amusement park.  Each one has a theme (4 total building).  Inside each building there are blox animals (at least I think that’s what they are).  Some are locked and have conditions to meet before unlocking.  However you can just buy it open with points earned playing the game.

After clicking on one of the animals you move on to more choices.  Namely which level do you want to play.  Each animal category has unique gameplay.  Another thing, you could download more maps here.

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Boom Blox: Bash Party Multiplayer

Now Nintendo WFC does exist in this game (yay!), and it’s easily reachable.  However you won’t be playing the game online with your friends.  Instead you get to

Download: (From left to right) Solo Levels, Co-Op Levels, and Versus Levels!

do something equally as good.  You get to download levels created from other people.  Some may be stupid, but others might actually be the next best thing since…something!

Co-Op

Like I said there are 4 theme parks rides.  In Co-Op mode there are 3 animals inside each one of those rides, and they have the levels to play in.  They are:

• Show Time! – They have Clock Dismantle, Rapid Fire, and Big Top Workshop
• Pirates – They have Co-Op Gem Dig, Salvage Team, Buccaneers
• Space Ship – They have Space Miners, Planetary Engineering, and Space Golf
• Heroic – They have Rescue Co-Op, Refinery Raid, and Mad Laboratory.

Versus

Same thing as Co-Op, except you’re going at each other’s throats.

• Show Time! – They have Color Topple, Color Dismantle, Color Domination, Color Dismantle Pro, and Balance Build
• Pirates – They have Pirate Raiding, Bombardiers, Gem Dismantle, and Free Dismantle
• Space Ship – They have Space Vs., Elimination, Mini Golf, Space Battle, Laser Blast, and Puck Attack 2.0
• Heroic – They have 100 Points Topple, Sling Shot Points, Point Pitch, Point Jackpot, Bowling Ball Topple, and Point Tower Topple

Conclusion

This game is everything Boom Blox had and more.  With more ways to play, a new control, and the ability to create and share stages, this multiplayer puzzle game is ageless (or until they make a new one).

Another great change was the fact that they had more focus on multiplayer mode this time around, adding more games (I think anyways, I’m not counting!) in Versus and Co-Op Mode.  Sure you’ll find some boring games, but you’ll definitely find your perfect fun puzzle game in this package all wrapped in one!

Check out Boom Blox!

If you’re interested I would recommend you to buy this game, but you can rent it at Gamefly starting as low as $8.95 or Try For Free!

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In life many things test your patients… but there is one game that does it more then any others, and that is Marble Saga: Kororinpa.  The game has is fun and unique, and you’ll have a blast battling with your friends in the game, but if you get down to it, the game could be very frustrating.

So I only have one key trick for these types of game, especially Marble Saga: Kororinpa.

Marble Saga: Kororinpa Beating The Levels

Slow and Steady Wins The Race

Go slow and steady!  That’s it.  Only go faster IF you already know what’s up ahead.  I couldn’t count the number of times my brother and friends lost their cool and then kept on dying.

They were really shocked when I just took one of their Wiimotes and then moved on to the next check point.  All I did was move slowly and carefully.

Restarting

You know when you’re going to fall to your death, or mess up.  Why waste your time falling when you can just restart and start over?  That’s what pressing the 1 button does.  It restarts you to the last check point.

I also noticed this, but pressing 1 multiple times will bring you to any previous check points you reached before!

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Can you get enough of Super Monkey Balls?  If you can’t you might want to check out Marble Saga: Kororinpa.  The game is similar, but it has its own unique style

with some crazy gameplay (using the wall as the floor, for example).

This multiplayer Wii game makes you play as selectable marbles.  You start out with some, but as you complete the game you can unlock more and more marbles.  Each marble has their own unique stats, and some might even make animal sounds!

Of course, you could even create your own marbles and stages for you to use in this multiplayer puzzle game.  You can also create your own stage and then share it online with your friends via WiiConnect24.

Marble Saga: Kororinpa Gameplay

You’re helping out an ant named Anthony.  The story of the game is not that important, though (I already

Play in the hot desert!

forgot everything else except for the first sentence above…).  What you do is that you tilt the Wiimote around each stage collecting yellow crystals and any other goodies that you can find. This does not include anything that your gamer instincts tell you not to touch. (You know, most games have hazards that something in your mind tells you not to touch. Those instincts.)

In multiplayer mode you only get the yellow crystals.

Anyways, throughout each stage you find junk (literally junk), that can be used to make items to use for creating your own stage.

Playing through the game allows you to unlock new marbles which all have specific stats.  So will it be the slow, but steady panda, or just the plain marble?

Marble Saga: Kororinpa Multiplayer

Sorry folks, but there is no Nintendo WFC in this multiplayer Wii game.  What you have instead is a large selection of stages to play through.  To play multiplayer you have to go to Free Mode and then choose either Normal Stages or Bonus Stages.

Or play in the icy mountains!

Normal Stages

There are 7 levels you can choose from.  What’s that, you’re recommenging a game with only 7 levels you ask?  Well that’s right there are only 7 levels, but in each level there are 10 stages!

So, yeah, play through the sizziling hot desert, the icy mountains, or even in outer space!  That’s a lot of places for one marble to go.  You can play with up to 4 players.  You have to collect the yellow crystals and then go to the goal, first one there wins!  The stages all have unique stuff in them, so be careful!

Bonus Stages

These stages are hard, and not just hard, but bonus stages too.  However hard it is though, the same rules apply, get to the end of the stage with all of the yellow crystals!

Conclusion

Marble Saga: Kororinpa is a fun marble tilting game that reminds me a lot of the marble tilting J board game that my teacher sometimes let us play with back during elementary school.

If you like those sort of games you’ll love this game.

Not only that, but you’ll experience a lot of fun times shifting gravity, making the wall next to you your floor, or just the pure frustration of dying over and over again in a canon, and then hearing the annoying meowing sound over and over.

Plus with multiple difficulty (new tasks), plenty of stages, creatable parts, and custom stages to create and share, you’ll have a blast playing this game, even after beating the game.

If you’re interested I would recommend you to try renting this game first at Gamefly starting as low as $8.95 or Try For Free!

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You can win any fight with any character, it just takes some practice.  How to win in Super Smash Brother Brawl is the question though.  I recommend you to first pick your favorite characters and stick with them.

There are some strategies that can help you win in Super Mario Brother Brawls.  However if your friends are like mines they might notice how much life you have left, and gang up on you.

Advance Moves

Dodge

Now if you want to win in Super Smash Brother Brawl you have to learn how to dodge.  Dodging is easy you press the shield button and then tilt to a direction.  When you do that you roll.  You can dodge to the left, to the right, or just where you are standing (from pressing down).  When you dodge you are, for a brief time invincible.

Air Dodge

The next move is to dodge in the air.  Dodging in the air makes you invincible in mid-air for a short second or two.  If you get hit, and you’re weakened you would be sent flying (no duh!), but you can save yourself by dodging in the air.  How does it work?  I have no clue, but it does can save you sometimes.

Just saying, but I’m a pretty good fighter (almost always win), and if wasn’t for dodging I wouldn’t be able to win those life and death situation I always get myself into.

Shield

Dodging is nice, but for those things you know that you can’t dodge, for example maybe it’s too fast, and you’ll probably make it out alive by just using your shield.  By doing this not only does it protects you, but it gives you the perfect chance to do a counter attack.

Just saying, but I’m a pretty good fighter (almost always win), and if wasn’t for dodging and shielding I wouldn’t have won in those life and death situation I always get myself into.

Strategies

Coward Run

Like the name suggests you run away from your friends as they kill each other, and then come every now and then to finish them off.  The best weapons to use are range a weapon like guns, but that doesn’t limit you to only guns, you can also throw items like a sword, or even…the gun.

This method isn’t only good for winning, but good against when people are ganging up against you.  While they’re trying to chase you they’ll attack each other, while you throw items at them.  I figured this out, because somehow (I don’t know how) I always become the target of all my friends.  Yet by dodging them and throwing stuff at them I usually always win.

Spam Attack

Like the name suggests you find a character that has a move that can be very easily spammed and then use it.  A good example is Meta Knight’s tornado move:

• It can’t be easily countered
• It does a lot of damage
• It’s easy to use
• Once they get hit they can’t move.

This is especially great if you are teaming up with a slow, powerful character like Ike.  First you attack them and damage them, and then they finish it off.

Items

Now all items are important, but some can be used for some very evil victories.  Just be careful for people who can reflect it back.

Smash Ball

Now some characters have worse smash moves then other.  If you play one of those character and you realize that smash moves are always against you, that’s the more reason for you to get it.  If you get it, use it, so nobody else can use it.

Another thing is that, if you can, save your smash ball for a later time.  If you know your character’s smash move can kill your opponent in one hit, and they’re already near, why not kill them first and then use your smash move after they come back.

Fan

Now to some, the fan is just a useless weapon, but to others, it’s the scariest weapon the game has created.  Now, for those who don’t know, the fan it’s the spammiest weapon in the game.

The fan can be spammed.  Every time you press the A button you smack your opponent once.  So what should you do?  Press A like mad.  They only take 1 damage per hit, so imagine the chaos!  The best part is that they can’t fight back, or even move!

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Blast Works: Build, Trade, Destroy is the one hit wonder as an editing game.

Besides the fact that you can play a multiplayer plane shooting arcade game you can just about edit anything you want in the game.

This multiplayer wii game not only allows you to play through the game it allows you to play with all of your friends.  In this game you can play through campaign mode with 2 players, and arcade mode with 4 players.

As much as I would love to say this multiplayer shooting game is easy, it’s far from that.  You’ll face 3 difficulty levels, and even at the easiest level the game is still hard.

Blast Works: Build, Trade, Destroy Gameplay

Playing Blast Works: Build, Trade, Destroy is as simple as pressing 1 and 2 (which is easy).

The ships aren't that impressive, but the weapons...

You’ll play the game with just the wiimote sideways.  You use the D-pad to move around, and you press 1 to fire your weapon.  When you kill enemies you can touch them to connect them onto your ship.

When you have enemy planes on your ship you can use their attack other planes, and use them as a shield to prevent your otherwise fated death.  However if the parts get hit it’ll instantly fall off.

To protect your parts press 2 to absorb all of the parts into your ship making you more vulnerable.

Once you get a lot of parts things become very crazy!

Blast Works: Build, Trade, Destroy Multiplayer

In this multiplayer wii game you can play with up to 1-4 friends in Co-Op.  There’s a Nintendo WFC in this game, but instead of playing with other people you’ll be playing with the creative side of the game… the game editor.

Campaign Mode

This is where you and one of your friends fly through the sky sweeping everything out of the sky.  Once you both die you get…game over.  You have 3 different

One guy takes the top, the other guys take the bottom, and yet they both got screwed over...

difficulties (same rule applies to all modes)

You each with lives, and depending on how much points you get you get an extra life.  Getting hit (or touched) even once will kill you.

Arcade Mode

Arcade Mode is where you and 3 other friends fly through the skies.  With 4 players imagine the chaos that will occur?  Okay, probably not much chaos.  One person will probably dominate for a while due to the sheer size, but everybody will have their chance.

In this mode you’ll have continues when you die.  You get 5 continues and it’s up to you and your friends to divide up the lives.

User Level

This is where all of your hard works in the editor mode pays off.  Here you can use everything you made from the ships you built and the levels you created.

Nintendo WFC

Here you can upload your creations online or even download other people’s creation to your own game, and then edit it some if you want.

Now you can either send or receive from your friends who have made things or get other people’s from online via the choice blast work depot.  To this you must first…

1. Go to the site blastworkdepot.com (on a computer or the wii if you want) and go register an account using your wii’s console number (basically your friend code)
2. Choose the things you want to download and then download them
3. Go back to your wii and connect on to the blast work depot to download all the stuff you want.

Conclusion

With the ability to make everything in this wii shooting game, and then share it with your friends make this multiplayer shooter game a very fun addition to your collection of games.

Not to mention for the non-creative or lazy people (which is none of us, right?) you can go online and download other people’s contents that could be a fun addition to your game.

if you’re interested, you should 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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Well I’ll just go to the point.  Caslevania Judgment doesn’t have much secrets, besides unlocking characters and accessories, but let’s just move on, shall we?

Getting The Edge In Battles

Training

The majority of the characters are strong with their combos and long range attacks, but sometimes what you really need to is just have some time to practice each character with their battle strategy and combos.

Once you mastered the controls with one character you have mastered 1/3 of the war.  The next step is to figure out other characters attack range and other attacks.  The characters can’t all be the same.   So that means some characters specialize with range while other are close combat.  Know which is which, and that’s another 1/3 of the war.

Tutorial

Okay, we all hate going to the tutorial, especially if you have played so many similar games.  Well like it or not, you can still be a decent player just by mashing buttons and figure everything else, but in this game’s tutorial it teaches you advance moves that will really give you the edge over your opponents.

A good example is using the ukemi.  By pressing the attack button right before you hit the ground you can recover and fight again: Only learned from the tutorials.

Unlocking Other Characters

Okay, to get new characters you have to follow a long and hard path.  What you have to do basically is to unlock them in story mode (which can be obtained from playing all of the characters in story mode)

By beating the entire characters story mode (as much as you can) you unlock trevors story.  Beat his to unlock Death’s and Shanoa’s story.  Beat their story to get Dracula’s story, and then beat his to unlock Aeon’s story and “True” Story Mode.

Beat Death, Shanoa, Dracula, and Aeon in True Story Mode to unlock them as playable characters.

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Rayman is once again running away from the rabbids.  This time he’s going to the safest place in the whole world…his house.  However things go wrong as a freak accident causes the rabbids to be teleported into Rayman’s TV!  Now they’ll annoy him to death with his own TV!

The party doesn’t end here, you have to organize what shows, or basically mini-games will occupy each time slot for the day.  Good luck surviving Rayman, and hello fun, multiplayer and hilarious mini-games.

Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party Gameplay

Controls

Playing the game is simple.  You click through the menu with the Wiimote + A button.  Every mini-game is different though.  Some mini-games require you to

You get to choose what channels the Rabbids will annoy Rayman with!

drive, while others require you to bounce up and down with the Wiimote.

Gameplay

In the following week Rayman is going to get tortured by his television.  It’s up to you to choose which shows will torture him.  In everyday there are time slots.  Choose a time slot and then choose one of the multiple TV shows (mini-game).  If you beat the mini-game and gathered enough points you can move on to the next time slot and even unlock new accessories.

The accessories could be used to customize your own rabbids as you submit them online to be popularities.

At the end of each day you are treated to a highly hilarious scene as Rayman tries to get rid of the Rabbids.

In conclusion: never shave your teeth, brush your pits, and deodorize your hair (In-game reference J ).

Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party Multiplayer

Party Mode

You might be confused, but there are 2 types of multiplayer party mini-games for this game.  One of them is single player (which is everybody playing the game

Can you not see those vicious looking plants?

by themselves) and multiplayer (everybody play at the same time).  You can tell by looking at the bottom right of each box.  If these is 1 person it’s single, if there’s 4 it’s multiplayer.

Following this concept, there is Party Mode.  You can play with up to 8 players.  Yes that’s right you heard me 8. Since you can only have 4 controllers you have to share. Once you have the amount of players choose how many weeks to play (7 mini-games per week), and the game mode.  The 3 modes are:

• Normal – You and your friends just play through the mini-games.  Only the top 4 of each mini-game get points.  The rest gets nothing.
• Raving – Whatever you do don’t get 2^nd place.  If you do you get 0 points for that mini-game.  Adds more risk for the people who race for 1^st place (which is all of us!)
• Car-Boot Sale – This is the nice mode.  No matter what happens everyone gets points, no matter how low.

Conclusion

With high pitch screaming noises, the Rabbids banging their heads on walls, and secretly trying to eat paper will get a good chuckle out of anyone.  No one can deny that this game is funny.

With over 50 mini-games and a healthy dose of destruction this multiplayer Wii game can make anyone’s day (except Rayman, he’s the victim of it all).  There are a whole bunch of party games you can just focus on, or just blast through each one of them one at a time toppling your friends to their imminent defeat!

If you’re interested I recommend you to buy this game, it has a lot of replay values, but you can rent it first at Gamefly starting as low as $8.95 or Try For Free!

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With these high-speed super powerful (and highly collectible) z-fighters, one can easily play to their heart’s content smashing people to their death.  However if we truly want to beat them one must learn the secrets of fighting.

Winning Fights

Training Mode

What can I say, it’s annoying to read and watch what other people tell you to do, but you just have to do it sometimes, especially if you don’t know how to play the game.  This will each you unique moves that you may or may not ever need to use in combat.

Blocking

By holding the A and B button your character will block the majority of the attacks coming at their way. This is especially useful if you’re in one of those annoying combo spams where you get hit one after another.

Piercing Block

Now that we all know how powerful blocking is, how do we counter it?  Sure it’s invincible if you use it, but what if it’s used against you?  Simply move the Wiimote like you’re going to hug them to pierce their defenses.

Repeling Ki Attacks

Don’t you hate range attacks?  Well it’s easy to block and reflect (small ones only).  To reflect these little energy balls, press A + B and swing the Wiimote when the ki attack is near.

Dragon Dash

By pushing both the Wiimote and Nubnchuck forward your character will fly at high speed over to your opponents.  This can help you catch up with your opponents if they were to say run away from you, perfect to attack them.

Multi-Combo Attack/Easy Tournament Matches

If you want a really flashy multi-teleport attack (or to win tournament matches easily) you start out by punching your opponents.  Then hold down and press B, and keep on pressing it until you knock your enemy upwards.  When this happens press A to smack them onto the ground.  This move hurts and most of the time your opponent will land out of the ring.

Note: This only works for some tall, and not great ape people.

Unlocking New Characters

To simply get new characters all you have to do is to play through all of the episodes.  Not only is it fun just laughing through each battle, but entertaining as you play through the story with a nostalgic feeling throughout the history of Dragonball Z!

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