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From all the gore, blood, and senseless beating that is hilariously funny games come out this very peaceful and relaxing multiplayer Wii game it is Endless Ocean.

Endless Ocean is a diving simulation game.  Not only that you can also connect on Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection with friends.

In this game you’ll dive around the Manoa Lai Sea, exploring caves, ruins, fishes, and all sorts of other realistic things you can find in this multiplayer simulation game.

There are all sorts of real fishes hanging around everywhere.  No, the sharks can’t hurt you at all, but there are a lot of things to do in this relaxing game.

Endless Ocean Gameplay

Control

This game is only played with the Wiimote.  All you have to do is point at the screen and press B and A to move and interact with the environment, and trust me

This is actually a picture of a picture!

there are a lot of things you’re going to see in this game.

Gameplay

You play as a new diver exploring the sea, and there will be a lot of places to explore.

As you play through the game you’ll be introduce to many new tools and even legendary places that I always dreamed of exploring.

Not only will you be diving you’ll also be taking pictures for journalists or maybe being a guide, touring people to the undersea life.

Besides all the exploring you’ll be meeting and befriending fishes that I heard really interacts like real fishes.  Be befriending them (such as petting, poking, or even feeding them) you can get interesting facts about the fishes.

The final thing is that you can put all the fishes you met in a aquarium!  There you can free swim with them, maybe a room filled with sharks.

Endless Ocean Multiplayer

You might not know it, but this game has multiplayer!  If you have played Animal Crossing: City Folks or maybe the other way around you can invite a friend

Exploring the sea!

over to go exploring with you.

To do this just go to the other side of the boat you’re on (your base of operation) go to the other side of the boat, where there is nothing there, but a gate.  The gate allows your friends to join you.

Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection

Yes, this is where this multiplayer Wii game shines.  What you do is invite friends to explore with you.  You can bring them anywhere you want!

However there is one catch.  If your friend is way ahead of you, you can’t go to places you haven’t unlocked before.

Conclusion

Endless Ocean has nice and relaxing music combined with very nice and beautiful scenery.

The game combines some mythology into it so what might seem normal at first, might just become a lot cooler then you would ever think of a Wii multiplayer game.

Sometimes it’s just nice to get out of all the killings and beatings you see in other video games and look at some of the wonders of this underwater simulation game.

if you’re interested, 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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Guilty Gear XX Accent Core is a two dimensional game with TWO dimensions. That’s right, TWO! Not one, now three, TWO! Not cool, right? I know quite a few good 2D.

These are the characters you can play.good 2D

fighting games, though. This is not number one…

…but you should check this one out anyways if you’re a fan of Guilty Gear.

This multiplayer Wii game is one of those multiplayer Wii games that you should always:

Have a Gamecube/Classic remote for. ‘Cause for some reason, some Wii games are better

with Gamecube/classic remotes, especially since you’re not going to know what swinging the Wiimote does, and that pressing A and X is simpler then D-Pad “Left/Right”.

The game will have a lot of fighting, so be prepared get your hardcore on.

You might also need your trigger happy finger, and your godly reaction speed. And your indomnible fighting spirit.

Okay, I think that’s all you need.

Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Gameplay

Controls

Basically, you’ll be mashing on the D-pad for all of your unidirectional attacks, and, like all other fighting games, you’ll be using the nunchuck to move. Also, you

Battles are fast and furious!

can press A to know your enemy into the air so they’ll be repeatedly combo’d into death.

Gameplay

In this game, you’ll be playing all the characters you have. Not to mention all the paths and extra characters you can get…and the other modes…yup, you’re in for a lot of action.

This is what siblings and friends with better skills then you have are for. You know, besides training and multiplayer.

Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Multiplayer

In this game, you’ll be fighting to the death with your friends. Really, that’s it. I guess you could fight until your fingers fall off in training mode, or compete in MoM mode, where your opponents drop money.

Conclusion

This is a good game, with plenty of fighting left and right. While the controls can get really confusing, it’s still fun to zap and burn your opponents.

It can get boring if you play the same character all the time. Of course, there’s one guy who’s the same as another one. Everyone else is the same though. Yes, even the robot copy of a guy.

This is a pretty fun game. It has a neat little charm to it, but there are better games *Cough*Brawls*Cough*. If you’re an avid fan of fighting games, you would definitely like this game.

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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Don’t you hate it when you run off the map and towards your death on your last life! Now you have to start over and collect all the bananas again! But you’ll still keep on coming back for this multiplayer wii game again!

What you just read might actually be true. It’s actually quite frustrating when your THIS close to winning when you accidentally jump off a cliff. It’s even more annoying when you’re on your last life.

The game is fun, but it’s lack of a pause button and it’s lack of continuing after you quit can get frustrating. On another hand, it has tons of minigames and some extremely fun yet difficult campaign.

The minigames are the really in depth, not as deep as those other games, but that’s okay, because it’s a minigame!

Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz Gameplay

Controls

In this game, you swing the wiimote up to jump. That’s a new one, eh? On another hand, you TILT the wiimote to shift the map, so you can start moving around.

You'll be collecting bananas throughout the stages

The problem is that it’ll be rather crude, ‘cause it’ll be hard to coordinate it perfectly.

Gameplay

The plot is basically this: “Someone stole our bananas for the fiftieths or so time! Go get them back! For great justice!” So they put all the characters in balls and have them roll around to get the bananas back.

Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz Multiplayer

You’ll be playing at least 50 minigames. Buuuuuuuuuut…since I’m not willing to type down 50, I’ll type 5. I won’t even tell you the instructions ‘cause I assume you’ll read them.

• Boxing

Guess what? You get to go fisticuffs with your friends in first person view! The most violent fighter wins. Or the most strategic. It’s a mind game. You win can win

Everyone loves Sumo mini-games!

without thinking, or trick other people.

• Darts

Aim your dart, and then drag it back. Then flick it immediately forward. Try to get it to the center, but make sure it also leans towards the highest.

• Fencing

Stab at everyone, but feint when someone does it to you. Of course, if everyone does this without fail, it’d never end.

• Sumo Paper Fighter

Slam your paper sumo replica of you towards other people so they get pushed off the stage.

• Slingshot

Shoot yourself to knock bricks down, hit balloons, and kill UFOs. All for a lot of points.

Conclusion

Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz is a fun game, with minigames as the icing on the cake. The minigames are extremely enjoyable, and it has a harsh, yet addicting campaign. The game itself is entertaining enough so it’s probably worth the money.

With it’s wide variety of minigames and an entertaining campaign, Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz is as fun of a multiplayer wii game as it is of a single player wii game. The game is a very entertaining multiplayer wii game.

It is as every bit of an entertaining solo game, as well as a multiplayer game. Of course, you can take turns playing stages, so the single player is can also be a multiplayer game. <.<

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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If you lovee playing Spectrobes 1 or 2 for the Nintendo DS, you’ll love this game, but the combat system is way better then the first and second game.

The gist of this multiplayer Wii game is to kick enemy Krawl’s butt, excavate minerals and spectrobes, and raise your newly gained Spectrobes up into adults!

You’ll be playing the character we all know and love to hate, Roland and this time you can play as Jeena too!  Yay for no sex’s discrimination!

The game’s like Pokemon, but has its own unique twist.  There are over 100 types of Spectrobes for you to find and evolve, create your ultimate team!

The only problem with this multiplayer game is that there’s not Vs.\competition what-so-ever with other players, so really there’s no point for you to level up your Spectrobes besides for your own enjoyment in this multiplayer action game.

Spectrobes Origins Gameplay

Controls

You move around with the control stick, but you use point at the screen for excavating and other things that require you to point at the screen.

You'll have to fight giant bosses like this. Fun stuff.

Besides that you press A to interact / attack, and shake the Wiimote horizontally to call back your Spectrobe, and vertically to get them to attack / look for minerals.

Also shaking the Nuchuck makes you barrel row.

Gameplay

You play as Spectrobe Masters Roland and Jeena.  They get lost in the far, far universe, and found an uncharted planets crawling with Krawls (the enemies).

You have to save the inhabitants of the planet and then that’s where this game begins.

At first you’ll have nothing, but as you quickly progress into the game more and more things will be introduced to you.

However despite being a new game for the Wii you still excavate minerals you find on the floor (with the help of your baby spectrobes), awaken excavated spectrobes, raise them with minerals, evolve them, bring them into battle, and many more things to do.

It's like taking care of chao's in Sonic Adventure!

One of the better improvements in this Wii multiplayer game is the combat!

Unlike the 1^st game where you have to press L or R to attack with your spectrobes or the 2^nd game where you play as one of the spectrobes with the AI controlling the other one.

No, in this game you play as either Roland or Jeena with your choices of weapons.

Alongside them is a spectrobe that you can easily switch from your team.

Spectrobes Origins Multiplayer

In this Wii multiplayer game you can only play Co-Op, like mentioned earlier.  I don’t know the reason, but it’s too bad that you can’t beat up your friends with your own personalize team.

Co-Op

Joining is very easy.  All you have to do is get the 2^nd Wiimote to press Z. When they do, your friend/ sibling/ whoever you’re playing with play as your spectrobe.  When they die, he will play as the next one available, they’ll only be able to play in battles though.

Conclusion

With a whole bunch of cool and cute Spectrobes to find and grow you’ll definitely spend a great deal of time finding them, leveling them, evolving them, and then regretting them, because you still needed their baby form (for excavating/ dungeon purposes).

There are numerous planets to explore so obviously that means there are a whole deal of elemental spectrobes for you to find.

Alongside with your spectrobe you can do numerous attacks, with several types of weapons.  By ordering your spectrobe to assist your attack will create devastating combos that’ll help you fend off against the numerous amounts of Krawl attacking you.

If you’re interested I would 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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Hmm…I seemed to have cut you with my scythe. I’m sorry? All I can say is it’s your time is over!

Oh well, it’s not like you’re going to play this game, and it’s not because I was making a really cheesy pun. Nope.  This is definitely not a pun.

Yeah, basically, in this multiplayer Wii game, you get to be that crazy scythe wielding maniac, or that crazy whip wielding…whipper…guy…girl.

Yeah, just mash “B” and move the nun-chuck. Show them your particularly small ham, but hey this is a lot more fun then you might think.

Death Jr.: Root of Evil Gameplay

The main thing you do is press B to smash people, while swinging in directions to use specials moves (Like swinging the Wiimote left . Smash people, solve puzzles, and shoot things while listening to hilarious voiced text.

Death Jr.: Root of Evil Multiplayer

The multiplayer is basically split screen, playing the whole game. On a separate save file. Yeah, that’s about it.

Play the whole dang game on a save file that’s not single player compatible, with DJ and Pandora.

The two characters have little differences, besides guns (Pandora has a Tommy gun (Decent burst fire), while DJ has dual pistols (rapid pelt of ones) they’re basically the same).

You can also make new guns/improve old ones, just cause you want to. And because shooting giant explosive firey toilet paper rolls is fun.

Conclusion

Death Jr. is a fun game with plenty of violence and comedy, mixed with gun based action.

Stab, stab, stab, stab, stab,stab, slashing up a hill! Here comes scythe, here comes whip, here comes tommy gun! (pretty good song if I do say so myself… which I do)

Slashing is not your only option! Make guns, shoot them, go nuts! While the story doesn’t adapt for the character you’re playing, it most certainly lets you be as destructive and as “evil” to your hearts content!

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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Enter a world of mysteries, questions, and aliens taking over the minds of everyone.  With some tips here you’ll be playing online like a pro (warning: not all tips work).

In The Conduit, you get a giant room of multiplayer shooting.  You can play with a total of 12 players, regionally or worldwide.

That’s not the only things this multiplayer mode offers.  It also offers diverse modes to play, just look at my review of the game for more details.

Finally the game itself is just very fun.  Who wouldn’t like jumping around shooting people to death?

The Conduit Tricks

Radar

First of all, compared to 007: Quantum Solace, in this game you can see everybody’s position with the radar, but that doesn’t mean anything.  They can see you too.

Your enemies can also see where you are.  Another thing is that there are different levels in the game.  That means your enemies can be underground below you.

Find Cover

It’s easy to tell someone to do something, but it’s easier said then done.  When you engage in a gun fight, find some cover to hit and recover.

Just whatever you do, don’t go in the middle of a giant gun fight!

Keep On Moving

The radars shows everyone where you are.  So if you stay at one point trying to snipe people, they’ll catch on… very fast!  So the best way is to keep on moving!

Jump Fight

By jumping around, and shooting you can dodge shot better.  The problem with this is that you can’t aim well.  In fact they might have a better chance of getting you, so jump for better positions or just to run away.

Group Up

Group up if you’re playing team.  It just doesn’t make sense if you don’t.  Unless if you’re in a secret sneaking mission, the 3 vs. 1 situation is very good for you.

Sacrifice Your Teammates

If your teammates are running straight into battles, you can try staying a bit behind, and finish what your teammates started, and if not finished.

Try Something New

From my experience from playing FPS games, if you keep on dying from doing the same thing, try doing something else.  Unless something changes, your circumstances won’t change either and you’ll just keep on dying.

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The game with an extremely long name is an extremely simple smash-swing game.

The game features a lot of characters, all of which have at least four unique jutsus.

The plot is shallow, so all you need to know is to punch your opponent, sometimes with a special objective, like finish them with a special attack.

In multiplayer, you just pound your friends until they die. ‘Nuff said.

BTW, this is one of the older reviews that Steve has done, that has been “sitting” back so it might not be so detailed.  Anyways…get ready to use your special ninja justu!

Naruto: Clash of the Ninja: Revolution 2 Gameplay

Like I said before, swing your wii around to punch the ever-loving snot out of your opponents. Press the B button to use special-ed ninja jutsus. Then proceed to

Flip fool! Flip!

either spam,

or punch. Press right on the D-Pad for ultimate anilati-errr….I mean, special jutsus.

Naruto: Clash of the Ninja: Revolution 2 Multiplayer

Basically, you fight against other people.  You can even choose 2 characters at a time! with multiple characters.  You just punch someone to death, and then you win! Not very much to add, except that you’re going to punch/kick/flying ninja tackle/jutsu your friends to death!

Conclusion

I personally don’t like this game, mainly because of how shallow it is. I beat someone with a gamecube remote. Not much of a feat? Try this: With my FEET. That’s right! The game is so shallow, I know exactly what to do. With my feet. Just mash A-A-A-A-A-A-A B for good measure, A-A-A-B-A, Blammo! I win. Yeah.

The main strategy is spammer. Keep using one move, keep punching, or spam a ninjutsu that’s overly abusive, like Kakashi’s down B. Crawl into the ground, grab, beat the snot outta, and then throw ‘em out.

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I recommend you to rent this game at Gamefly. Starting for $8.95 or Try For Free!

Mario Strikers Charged offers extreme sports to the…extremes.  Well playing with other people and computers could be hard if you have no clue what you’re doing, or if you don’t even have a strategy or any ideas on how to score.  I’ll show you some neat tricks you can pull to get some points.

Mario Strikers Charged Tips

Online

If you’re online never quit, even if you’re losing badly (however if you have a very crappy connection that’s maybe acceptable).  Even if you lose you still gain points to your ranking, but if you quit, you lose 50 whole points!  You get points based off of whether you won (+10) or lost (+1), and the amount of goals you made (+10 being the max you can get).

Balance Team

Another thing you should is choose a balance team.  It doesn’t matter if your characters are the strongest shooters in the game if they never get the chance to shoot the ball, or it doesn’t matter if they’re fast if your shots are weak.  However, if you chose similar characters based off of a tactic then that’s perfectly fine.

Another thing, if you feel like playing Mario then play Mario.  Just know that you might have to adjust to their capabilities.  Remember having a variety of characters can help anyone.

Jumping The Goalie

This can only be done with 3 characters: Diddy Kong, Peach, and Toad.  Once you have the ball run up to the goalie, using items or whatever you have to do to get them out of your way.  Finally when you get to the goalie and he leaps at you (sometimes standing in front of him won’t do it), use your deke (d-pad), and jump above him.  After that quickly shoot the ball in!

Note: Sometimes he can still grab you, and maybe eventually completely nullify the tactic, because like people the goalie learns from his mistakes.

Boos invincibility

Same as the tactics above, except it’s only for Boo.  When the goalie dives at you press the D-pad and then quickly make your shot!  This could also work with other characters like Dry Bone who has a move that makes them temporarily invincible.

Using Items

We all know that items are in the game for a reason, but instead of clearing your way to the goal there are other uses for them.  Instead you could use it to stop anyone getting close to you as you charge your Mega Strike.  This way you could get more then just one point

Lob Passes

Hold Z and then pass the ball.  This way you can surprise your opponents and sometimes more safely pass the ball to your other teammates, be careful though, because doing this will make a hole on the floor appear.  If your opponents get to it and passes (A) it before you get to it, you my friend just lost the ball.

Fake Shots

What this does is pass the ball while looking like you’re going to shoot the ball.  What you have to do is presses B to shoot the ball, and then while you’re charging press A to pass it.

Intercepting Shots

It’s pretty easy to intercept shots.  Just tackle into the ball that’s being passed to take it for yourself.

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Back in the day Wii Play cost $49.99 hardly worth the money for just 9 mini-games.  However there was an extra bonus: you get a free Wiimote with the game.

A Wiimote is $40.00 so the game itself is really just $9.99.  I think everything is still the same as of now.

Wii Play brings in an assortment of mini-games that involves your Mii whether it’s just simply playing as them, or just look for them.

Now-a-days 9 mini-games aren’t going to get you anywhere for $50.00, but for $10.00, now we’re talking.

Wii Play Gameplay

Controls

There are 9 games and each of them has their own controls.  However they all have instructions, and really all you have to do is usually point your Wiimote at

Can you find the Mii?

the screen to play about half of the games/

Gameplay

When you first open this multiplayer Wii game you only have one game open to play.  Now don’t panic, because it’s very easy to unlock the next games.  You just have to play the game before it to get the next one.

Once you have unlocked them all you can invite someone over and challenge them in the games.  You can keep track of your wins with the games you played with your friends.  So basically if you want to crush them with proof, the proof is in the score!

Wii Play Multiplayer

Okay here we go… all of the mini-games here have multiplayer.  You just have to unlock the game first.

• Shooting Range – Things like balloons, birds, and targets will fly in the sky, and you have to shoot them.  There are 5 levels and the person who has the
  

  Tanks! One of the, if not best games here!

  most points wins.

• Find Mii – You have a set amount of time to look for Mii’s.  They have to fit conditions like identical, the fastest one, the odd one out, etc.  Obviously the person with the least points at the end loses.
• Table Tennis – It’s Table Tennis.  You serve the ball to your opponents, and when they return it back to you smash it back at them.
• Pose Mii – On the screen are shapes of your Mii that you have to match their poses by twisting your Wiimote.  Things are easy at first, but then you have to literally flip your Mii backwards.
• Laser Hockey – You control a paddle and smack the ball past your friends defenses and into the goal.  The person who gets the most points wins.
• Billiards – You play billiards, what else can I say?
• Fishing – Fish for fishies!  Drop your Wiimote into the water, and once a fish bites on pull up!
• Charge! – You play with the Wiimote horizontally as you control a mad cow.  Your goal is to smash through the scarecrows.  If you hit them in a line you get bonus points.  The person with the most points in the end wins!
• Tanks! – This is the only game that requires the Nunchuck.  You and a friend Co-Op clear stages by elimination enemy tanks.  Now you could kill each other, but one point or another you have to reach a mutual understanding if you ever want to progress any further.

Conclusion

This is a great game, not worth fifty, but is totally worth ten. It’s shallow, for a real game, but deep, for a mini-game.

The game isn’t worth fifty, but if you want a new Wiimote, and don’t mind a small extra amount of money, this game is one you should likely consider.

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What’s better, MX or ATV?

Well, you’ll never see me out there doing tricks like the pro’s, I wouldn’t dare put my life at risk like that, especially after playing this game.  I’ll just keep my dreams in a video game… (Joking, I never wanted to race anyways)

Anyways you’ll have a blast with this multiplayer WIi game as you fly through the sky doing tricks, and then ending it with a painful smash as you break every bone in your body.  Luckily for you, you somehow get back on your vehicle and continue racing.

In this multiplayer Wii game you can also get points, and buy things to create your own custom vehicle.  While I don’t think there is any difference capability-wise, but isn’t it always better racing with your own custom-made vehicle?

MX vs. ATV Untamed Gameplay

In this multiplayer Wii game, you can enter championships or just custom games where you can set things like the number of CPU’s, how hard they are, how

The more tricks you do the bigger the chance of you hurting yourself!

many laps, and other options.

In each race you zoom around the stages doing things like tricks to get points.

When you’re racing off of a ramp you can move your Wiimote up and down to jump higher.

If you do multiple tricks in the air will multiply the points you get with the amount of tricks you did.

Tricks gives you points and points can be used to buy new vehicles or customizable stuff

However entering YOUGOTIT as a cheat will unlock everything.

MX vs. ATV Untamed Multiplayer

With ramps at every corner, and tricks waiting to be unleashed you’ll have a great time playing with your friends, whether it’s on Nintendo WFC or just locally.  MX vs. ATV Untamed does have a random match-up online, but unfortunately it’s dead (or at least whenever I tried going on…).

However you can still play with your friends on Nintendo WFC, just add friend codes.

I don't know how I even got here...

Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection

Unfortunately I have never played this before due to lack of people, so I would have no clue what this mode is even like.

Multiplayer Mode

Inside Multiplayer Mode are 10 racing options.  They are:

• National – Race around the map.  The first person who finishes wins!  MAKE SURE THAT’S YOU!
• Super Cross – This is basically the same as National.  The only difference is that you race in different maps
• Super Moto – Same as above
• Open Cross – Same as above (now I’m starting to see a similarity…)
• High Score – You’re out in maps with all sorts with ramps and the sort everywhere.  You have to set a certain amount of time and then do tricks.  The person with the most points wins.
• Free Ride – Choose your map and just race for fun.  There’s no losing or winning.  You just ride for fun.
• Way Point – Instead of going on the road, you have to follow a blue arrow pointing you to the gates you have to pass through.
• Bonus Tracks – Same as National, Super Cross, and the rest of them up there.  Like always the maps you race in are different.
• Hill Run – Take a guess.  What do you think it is?  Right!  You climb up a hill.  First one to reach it wins!
• Combo – This is just like high scores except you only get points if you do combos.

Conclusion

Even though I may not know much about ATV or MX racing, which you could figure out from the lack of information…  However this multiplayer racing game still offers a lot.

You might not know what ATV is, but if you like racing games, this game delivers a good racing game with tons of modes, customizable things, and a good laugh (despite the pain of crashing onto the floor).

To me it felt a bit bland, but my friends loved it, so if you’re interested, I recommend you to try renting this game first at Gamefly starting as low as $8.95 or Try For Free!

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