I grew up playing some of the old Spore games on my PC and loved the idea of essentially creating and managing bizarre species of space creatures.  Now Electronic Arts and Maxis have brought Spore to the Wii in their latest release, Spore Hero.  It’s a really fun, colorful, and entertaining game with a story that’s interesting and characters that keep you laughing throughout the adventure.  Here’s the basic story behind Spore Hero: You are an alien space creature that has been hurled through space on a blue meteor that crash lands on a foreign planet.  The inhabitants of the planet you land on don’t seem quite right at first glance.  That’s because “evil” creatures followed you to this planet on red meteors and are quickly spreading chaos around the world using the power of their red meteor crystals to turn the locals into babbling “idiots”.  So, it’s your job to battle the evil creatures and save your new home from evil.  Read the rest of the story...

The Dragon Ball franchise has been around for years and the folks at Namco Bandai keep finding entertaining ways to extend that franchise.  The most recent addition is Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo exclusively for the Nintendo Wii.  Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo is a side-scroller fighting game with some basic platforming gameplay thrown in for good measure (Side-scroller platformer action means the action is viewed from a side-view camera angle, and the onscreen characters generally move from the left side of the screen to the right and involves  jumping to and from suspended platforms as well as jumping over objects).  The storyline revolved around Dragon Ball’s main character Goku, but this time around it’s the young Kid Goku.  The entire story and gameplay is based on Goku’s quest to aquire seven Dragon Balls, a set of mythical orbs that, when all seven are brought together, have the ability to grant a wish.  In order to gather the balls, you’ll need to advance through several levels and worlds by fighting and defeating enemies.  Read the rest of the story...

Of all of the games we own or have tested for our Nintendo Wii, the game that our family (mom, dad, the kids, and grandma and grandpa) kept coming back to again and again was Wii Fit. We all love something different about it, but we play it together just about every time we turn on our Wii. So, when we heard that Nintendo was releasing Wii Fit Plus, we were super excited. We went right out and bought a copy of the game and we’ve playing it constantly ever since. For our review of the Wii Fit Plus, we’re going to break it into two parts. Part I will be more about the family friendliness of the games and why it’s good for the kiddos, while Part II will be part of our January reviews of fitness titles for the Wii and will focus on the fitness/exercise/workout portions of Wii Fit Plus.  Read the rest of the story...

12 years ago, Klonoa made its debut on Sony’s Playstation.  At the time, it was an almost instant classic.  Now, Namco Bandai is bringing it back to the Wii in an all new, beautifully designed mixture of 2D/3D side-scrolling platformer action.  (Side-scroller platformer action means the action is viewed from a side-view camera angle, and the onscreen characters generally move from the left side of the screen to the right and involves lots of jumping to and from suspended platforms as well as jumping over objects).  Read the rest of the story...