Every so often we’ll pluck a piece of content we like from WeSeed.com and throw it on here. Why? Because we can. Now stop telling us our business and enjoy our brilliant copy. This one comes from the Gamers WeSeed Page:
by Carlos Portocarrero, WeSeed Writer
Ask any serious Wii gamers what’s missing in their library of games, and they’ll probably all give the same answer: hardcore.
So far, Nintendo’s promises of bringing games to the Wii that don’t involve carnival games and yoga boards haven’t come true. Even Far Cry Vengeance, a wildly popular first-person shooter, fell flat in the transition to the Wii. For those seeking a bit of the ultra-violence, Manhunt 2 and its stabbing motions might have whet your appetite, but even then the Wii didn’t show as much gore as the PS2 version.
So is there any hope on the horizon?
The answer is a little complicated, but the good news is that there are a couple of titles that might quench the hardcore gamer’s thirst for some shoot ‘em up action.
Dead Space Coming to the Wii
This EA (ERTS) action-horror game came out of nowhere to become a huge hit on the PC, PS3 (SNE), and Xbox 360 (MSFT). Now there’s word that the game, which came out at the end of last year, will be ported over to the Wii. That’s the good news. The bad news: we don’t know if the game will be carefully ported over, or if EA will just bank on the game’s popularity to sell itself. In other words, it might turn out to be another Far Cry Vengeance—a crappy port of a great game.
If that happens, it’ll be a huge blow to Wii fans who want to blast away at more than cartoon chickens and ducks.
An Ice-Cold Contender
Then there’s the story of Winter, an adventure game set in a snowstorm that was originally pitched to publishers around two years ago. It’s centered around a cool premise of not freezing as you try to figure out why the world seems be going through some kind of big chill. And the control scheme fits the Wii to a T: For example, you open drawers by pulling on the remote as if you were actually opening a drawer.
Scope out the sweet trailer thanks to IGN:
Turns out the early build of the game got fantastic feedback… and yet they still don’t have a developer to publish it. Why?
Because prospective publishers think it’s “too hardcore” for the Wii.
That’s what we call ye olde Catch-22. If you want to read the whole story on Winter, check out IGN’s sweet write-up of the game. They also have some cool videos of the game in action. Very atmospheric and mysterious.
To read more about the game, check out The Hardest Level and their link to a petition to keep the game alive.
To me, this is a huge opportunity for a developer to step up and fill what is a clear void in the Wii market: hardcore games. Beside the graphics limitations, it’s probably the biggest complaint people have with the system.
Maybe if we’re lucky, we’ll see Sega, Activision Blizzard (ATVI), Take-Two (TTWO), or Nintendo themselves stepping up to the plate.
Until then, stay warm and enjoy the already-one-year-old bloodfest that is No More Heroes.
