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    Rev Wii Surprise: Nintendo Controller Lets You Bend The Rules — To An Extent

    A THQ spokesperson at Dylan's Candy Bar said she played a Wii tennis game made by Nintendo at E3. She plays tennis in real life and said she found herself adopting the proper stances as she swung the Wii remote like a racket. She got good results. But others who stood stiff and just swung their arm with minimal flair got some good results as well. Similar deviations were on display during a recent play session of Nintendo's Wii baseball game (see "GameFile: Why Australia Banned 'Reservoir Dogs'; Nintendo Wii, 'ShellShock' And More").

    This kind of leeway could be good thing. However, one person's variety is another person's game-breaker. At Dylan's, the THQ Wii game "Barnyard" primarily featured third-person (third-animal, really) character-based gameplay. It also offered some bonus games. One was darts, which is supposed to be played with the Wii remote held and flicked like a dart — just not released — at the dartboard on the TV screen. The THQ producer showing the game advocated aiming with the Wii remote's laser pointer and then flicking the wrist. But a move from the elbow worked too. So did a move from the shoulder. And so did a flick in reverse, away from the dartboard, a sign of the Wii remote's limitations when it comes to distinguishing different types of motions.

    Bouda cautioned again that breaking the rules won't always work on the Wii. "I found I do different things depending on what game it is," he said. "On some of them you can't fake it." He referred to a golf mode in "Barnyard." "If you don't hold it like a golf club and do the full motion you don't get the full result."

    If nothing else, the visit to THQ's event proved that Wii's rules can be bent. This fall, when the system launches, players can figure out to what extent — and whether that makes the system's games the richer or the poorer for it.

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    It's nice that Nintendo is making quality motion sensing- unlike the :cough: PS3's :cough:

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    Yeah, Stupid PS3

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    Wii pwns
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    I used to have a signature here.

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    Did you not read it... it had several examples of how you can fake them motion... and only one you had to do it right?

    And you don't even know the quality of ps3's...fanboys.... gosh.

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    We aren't fanboys- you are. We're just saying the Wii was built from the ground up to play with motion sensing, while Sony and Microsoft copied, and therefor are loosing features (rumble in the case of PS3).

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    you dont know what the ps3's controller will be like... and you say it isn't quality... on what grounds?

    nintendo is the one that is infamous for cost cutting... not sony

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    Maybe your right stotheamuel. We'll just have to wait and see when they release all of the consoles.

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    true we'll see this fall. it'll be fun telling your friends they have to move around like a fool with the remote and then prove you can just sit there and achieve the same result.

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    im sure they talked crap about the ds before it came out..../cough

    touch screen? nonsense.....

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