Finally picked up a Wii (will I ever not feel stupid saying that?) from the lovely people at Camden Gamestation last night. First impressions; the control is good (after I reallised how it worked and switched off the lights behind the tele which were interfering with the IR sensor*), I got much more into the simple tennis, boxing etc. than I expected I would. I played Zelda only briefly, graphically it’s not much over a Game Cube game though the draw distance seemed better than you’d see in a title for that platform, but hey it’s a Zelda game and tomorrow afternoon I’m going to sit down and get properly into it (I’m sooooo looking forward to using the remote to shoot arrows).

There’s allready some pretty decent stuff in the online shop too including (in ascending order of excitingness) F-Zero, mario 64, the 5 player PC Engine version of Bomber Man and… Gunstar Heroes! And it plays all the GC games I tried out.

Overall I just get the vibe (did I just say vibe? I’m sorry) that there are going to be some really great games for this system, it’s the same feeling of possibility that I had when I first played on a DS.

Having said all this the 2 games I’m looking forward to most at the moment are both on the PS2 and both by the sadly disbanded Clover studios [1][2] (Are you mad Capcom?).

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*So in addition to the tilt sensors and accelerometers in the remote, you’ve got a couple fo infra-red sources on the ’sensor bar’ which you put next to your TV, the Wii triangulates with these to locate the controler in space. We have a light fitting behind the TV which has a couple fo lightbulbs spaced about the same distance appart as the sources on the sensor bar. These were causing interference and the control position kept jumping about as it locked onto the different sources of infra red.