Sunday, February 28, 2010

Wii For Dummies, New Edition (For Dummies (Computers)) (Paperback)

Wii For Dummies, New Edition (For Dummies (Computers))
Wii For Dummies, New Edition (For Dummies (Computers)) (Paperback)
By Kyle Orland

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Just got a Nintendo Wii game console? Thinking about one? Wii offers video games, exercise tools, the opportunity to create a cool Mii character, and lot of other entertainment options. Wii For Dummies shows you how to get the most from this fun family game system.

This book shows you how to get physical with Wii Sports, turn game time into family time, make exercise fun with Wii Fit, and discover Wii’s hidden talents, like displaying photos and browsing the Web. You’ll learn how to:

  • Hook up the Wii to your TV, home entertainment setup, or high-speed Internet connection
  • Get familiar with Wii’s unique controllers and learn to use the Nunchuk, Balance Board, Wheel, and Zapper
  • Explore the Wii Channels where you can shop for new games, play games online, check the news, and even watch videos
  • Create Mii avatars you can share, enter in contests, and use in games
  • Learn to use your whole body as a controller and get fit while you play
  • Identify the best games for parties, family events, nostalgia buffs, and even non-gamers
  • Build your skill at Wii tennis, golf, baseball, bowling, and boxing
  • Use the Wii Message Board and full-featured Web browser

With tips on choosing games, hot Wii Web sites, how to enjoy photos and slideshows on your Wii, and ways to prevent damage to (and from) Wii remotes, Wii For Dummies makes your new high-tech toy more fun than ever. Read more


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Wii Remote Gripz - Green (Accessory)

Wii Remote Gripz - Green
Wii Remote Gripz - Green (Accessory)
By MadCatz

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Mad Catz Gripz are designed to fit perfectly on your Nintendo Wii Remote and Nunchuk for improved protection against daily wear and tear. Made of premium-quality, durable lightweight silicone, Gripz provide the long-lasting comfort and protection you demand. Read more


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Everlast 3" Aerobic Step (Accessory)

Everlast 3" Aerobic Step
Everlast 3" Aerobic Step (Accessory)
By Company X

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Take your cardio and strength training to the next level with the new Everlast 3" Aerobic Step for Wii Fit. Read more


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Saturday, February 27, 2010

Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party (Video Game)

Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party
Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party (Video Game)
By UBI Soft

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A game you can play with your behind! Utilizing the Wii's new balance board, gamers play by sitting on the motion-sensing peripheral while, of course, the off-the-wall antics of the Raving Rabbids is in full force. Wii, Ubisoft, E.The third game for the Wii in Ubisoft's popular Rayman Raving Rabbids series, Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party keeps the irreverent multiplayer fun coming fast and furious as players get down and boogie with the Rabbids like never before. Packed with more than sixty mini-games that spoof popular culture, from TV series to TV classics, not to mention insane ads, as with all Raymen Raving Rabbids games, this is a Wii party waiting to happen.

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Dancing with the Rabbids in ' Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party'
Dancing with the Rabbids.
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Rabbids wrestling in ' Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party'
Rabbids in the squared circle.
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Beestie boarding mini-game in ' Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party'
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The Story
First they invaded your world and, now your TV. The Rabbids have taken over almost every channel you can imagine, from music to movies, from wrestling to reality TV - even TV ads. In Story Mode, players play through a week of television, with each day bringing new wacky challenges of skill and insane movements in a compilation of mini-games. With up to eight players in turn-based mode and four players simultaneously, get ready for some serious insanity as you and all your friends help the Rabbids destroy all our daily viewing and drive Rayman crazy in the process.

Put Your Wii Balance Board to Use
Although 100% playable with just the Wii Remote and Nunchuck control configuration, Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party is optimized in part to be used with the Wii Balance Board as well. In fact, nearly 40% of the game's 65+ mini-games incorporate support for the Wii Balance Board, with the majority of these when played at harder difficulty values, incorporating all three controllers simultaneously. Use of the Wii Balance Board in-game is turn-based, but this fun, new application for Nintendo's new peripheral for the Wii ensures that all your TV Party's will be a full body experience.

Just a few of the mini-games in Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party that take advantage of the Wii Balance Board are: 'Beestie Boarding', a wild winter ride down obstacle filled slopes astride an inverted wildebeest, and 'Garden of Weeden', where you use the Balance Board to pour weed killer on overgrown vegetation. Both utilize pressure applied to the Balance Board's four main directions for the desired effect.

Key Game Features:

  • Unique Use of the Wii Balance Board - Play loads of exciting new games with the new Wii Balance Board and experience the first game in the world that you can play with your rear end.
  • New Wacky Games - Play 65+ brand-new mini and not so mini-games that spoof popular culture, from TV series to TV classics, not to mention a whole lot of insane ads thrown in for good mention.
  • All-New Party Mode - Play co-op or battle your friends simultaneously with up to four players, or go crazy with up to eight players in party mode. You can even sabotage your friends while they are playing.
  • Unique Use of the Wii Remote - Discover new and innovative ways to play with eight types of gameplay, including shaking, precision, dexterity and balance.
  • Shake that Rabbid - Use the Wii Remote and Wii Balance Board to dance and wiggle your booty.
  • Customize your bunny - Pimp your bunny out, take his photo and send it to your friends online.
Double Your Fun in Party Mode
Like many Wii games with a heavy mini-game component, Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party comes with built-in four player multiplayer support, but TV Party takes this common feature a few steps further. In addition to a full simultaneous four-player co-op and battle mode it also features an all-new, powerfully fun, party mode. Capable of supporting up to eight players in local play through a turn-based system and allowing for players with remotes, waiting their turn on the sidelines to interfere in the progress of the current player, it opens a whole new layer of chaos to the already chaotic world of Rayman Raving Rabbids.

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Active Life: Extreme Challenge Bundle with Mat (Video Game)

Active Life: Extreme Challenge Bundle with Mat
Active Life: Extreme Challenge Bundle with Mat (Video Game)
By Namco

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Showcasing more than a dozen unique activities, from wakeboarding to rock climbing and base jumping, Active Life: Extreme Challenge promises to keep players pulses pounding and hearts pumping with each new event. Combining the exclusive mat controller with a Wii Remote not only provides active and fun gameplay but also an experience that burns calories. With competitive and multiplayer challenges for up to two players and the ability to play as your personalized Miis, Active Life: Extreme Challenge will ensure that everyone gets to share in the fun.Get ready to get active. In  Active Life: Extreme Challenge, you'll throw your entire body into every challenge that comes your way. This innovative game combines an included mat controller with the motion-sensing fun of your Wii Remote to deliver a whole-body experience that gets your limbs moving and your heart pumping, allowing you to enjoy extreme activities anytime.

Sky Dive!
Sky Dive!
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Do cool BMX Tricks!
Do cool BMX Tricks!
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Experience Kite Boarding!
Experience Kite Boarding!
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Active Life Extreme Challenge

Synopsis
Test your skills at 15 intense activities in Active Life: Extreme Challenge. Whether you're scaling the cliffs of the Grand Canyon or swooshing down the hills of San Francisco in a street luge, you'll enjoy the thrill of performing actions that make it feel as though you're really participating in an extreme activity. Explore amazingly detailed environments as you skate, surf, bike and more, and amp up the excitement by competing with friends and family in multiplayer gameplay.

Key Game Features:

  • Includes the game Active Life: Extreme Challenge and a mat controller to facilitate whole-body game activity
  • Engage in a wide variety of activities across thrillingly detailed environments, including kite-surfing in the Pacific and scaling the cliffs of the Grand Canyon
  • Move your body in 15 extreme activities, such as street luge/in-line skating, base jumping, acrobatic double dutch, BMX biking and skateboarding
  • See characters and environments come to life in a unique cel-shaded art design
  • Bring your Mii character into the game for a personal touch
  • Enjoy the fun by yourself or with friends in single-player, multiplayer and Time Trial modes
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Active Life: Extreme Challenge is the follow up to the successful Active Life: Outdoor Challenge game/mat bundle. Leveraging the ‘active gaming’ trend, Active Life games use a mat controller along with the Wii Remote to incorporate the player’s entire body into the gameplay. 

Active Life: Extreme Challenge kicks Active Life into high gear, featuring ‘extreme’ themed sports such as base jumping, street luge, and rock climbing. Whether you want to swoosh down the hills of San Francisco in a street luge, scale the cliffs of the Grand Canyon, or kite-surf in the crystal blue waters of the Pacific, this game will get your heart pumping!
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All Star Cheer Squad (Video Game)

All Star Cheer Squad
All Star Cheer Squad (Video Game)
By THQ

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All Star Cheer Squad is an aspirational game that captures the fun and action from the Cheer world. Players immerse themselves into the world of competitive cheerleading through creativity, customization, style and teamwork. Players create their own avatar, learn cheer/dance moves, compete against individual team members and ultimately compete against other squadsIn All Star Cheer Squad, players will follow a year in the life of a cheerleader as you learn new cheers, participate in practices and create your own routines in the hopes of making the squad and eventually becoming its captain. High-energy gameplay includes squad competitions and one-on-one cheer-offs, where players will use the Wii Remote and Nunchuk to perform dozens of real-world cheer and dance moves.

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Go ahead, Bring It!
Fox mascot in 'All Star Cheer Squad' for Wii
Choose to be a girl, boy or neither.
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Customizing uniforms in 'All Star Cheer Squad' for Wii
The right look for your cheer.
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Cheer squad dressed in red in 'All Star Cheer Squad' for Wii
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Cheer squad in black following prompts on the Wii Balance Board in 'All Star Cheer Squad' for Wii
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In order to ensure that All Star Cheer Squad has the latest cheer action and top routines, world-renowned cheerleading choreographer Tony G, best known for his work in the "Bring It On" movies, has signed on as chief consultant for the game. All Star Cheer Squad will also incorporate use of the Wii Balance Board to get the player's entire body involved in the game and add to the ultimate cheerleading experience. Players will be able to customize the look of their cheerleader and squad including body, facial features, hair and outfits.

Show the Squad What you Are Made Of
The backstory that plays out in All Star Cheer revolves around player's attempts to make the 'Fox Squad' cheer roster. Although a top squad, they have suffered a tough setback when one of their top captains has been sidelined by injury. The show must go on though. Players goal in singleplayer modes is first to make the squad, later progressing up its ranks and finally putting what you've learned to good use as a choreographer.

Key Game Features:

  • 1-4 player support.
  • Use the Wii remote and nun-chuck to perform dozens of real-world cheer/dance moves.
  • Full body cheer experience using the Wii Balance Board (optional).
  • Compete and cooperate in squad and one-on-one cheer-offs.
  • Customize the look of your team including facial features, hair, style & color, make-up and outfits.
  • Learn new moves and choreograph your own cheer routines to music.
  • Grow your all-star squad to be the best and lead them to the championship as Cheer Captain.
Varied Gameplay
Gameplay within All Star Cheer Squad consists of players mimicking the stream of on-screen prompts, representing individual moves within a cheer routine, and accumulating points according to their accuracy. Action is registered through the use of various controllers. Ideally the game simulates a the range of body motion--both upper and lower--that a cheerleader utilizes. With this in mind, to take advantage of the game's full potential players should use both the combination of a Wii Remote with attached Nunchuck controller for upper body movement, and a Wii Balance Board for lower body movement. But this configuration is not mandatory for play. A Wii Remote with Nunchuck will suffice. Play options consist of:

Singleplayer - Singleplayer action in All Star Cheer Squad comes in two varieties: Quick play and Career Mode. Career Mode on the other hand contains the lion's share of the singleplayer experience as well as the storyline of the game. As players begin this mode they choose the gender and basic customization options of their character like initial attire, facial features, etc. From there they are introduced to the current members of Fox Squad. Considered as an unproven rookie the players must try out and make the squad to gain respect and a spot on the team. If successful more advanced routines and moves as well as unique custom items will be unlocked, which will earn you credibility and provide the opportunity to move up in the hierarchy of the squad, eventually all the way to captain. Quickplay is a standard tutorial mode where players can practice basic and not so basic moves that will come in handy regardless of the player's experience and comfort level with the Wii Remote, Nunchuck and the Wii Balance Board.

Multiplayer - All Star Cheer Squad supports 2-4 players either cooperative or competitive multiplayer. Team up and work together as a unit and the goal is to get the highest overall routine score as a squad by following the on-screen prompts as you face down a bevy of AI supplied competition. As squads progress through the mode, moves routines and their synchronization with music become more and more difficult, complex and frantic. Players who instead choose to go the route of competitive multiplayer face off against friends in a versus mode where not only do they need to follow the in-game prompts, to hope to win in a tight battle they must shoot for perfect execution of moves. String together three perfect moves and your team receives a 'call out." These can be used to add points to your score, trip up the opposing cheer line when their turn comes, protect your own line in this case. Whichever team has the highest score at the end of the game wins.

Any way you choose to play it All Star Cheer Squad is an aspirational game that captures the fun and action of the real life Cheer world. Immerse yourself in the creativity, customization, style and teamwork All Star Cheer Squad. And don't forget to Bring it on!

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