This is an excerpt from the Preview of the Nintendo Wii game by GameSpy

To use the Wii’s functionality, the Complete Saga team essentially added a layer of motion-sensing controls over the primary set. You can press the Z button to build, but if you piston your arms up and down to pantomime the character’s animation, you’ll build much faster. Similarly, you can just press the Z button to use your Force powers, but if you direct them with the Wii’s controls you’ll get a much faster or more powerful response. Although it might not make it into the final build, blaster characters will probably be able to fire their grapples by flicking the remote from down to up. And, finally, you can use the Wii Remote to swing your lightsaber.

If you waggle the Wii Remote, a character armed with a lightsaber will swing it with the same abandon you swing. If you jump or double jump first, you’ll perform a slam or super slam attack. In addition, if you swing when a bolt is incoming, you’ll be able to swat away blaster fire (rather than just having to hold your lightsaber still). Swinging the lightsaber with the Wii Remote is a bit faster than just pressing the trigger, and the effects you generate more powerful, but the real payoff is simply swinging your “lightsaber” in real life.

http://wii.gamespy.com/wii/lego-star-wars-the-complete-saga-/802001p1.html

So it's the first E3 with all current generation consoles released, will it decide who will be the top console? When it comes to E3, sales don't mean anything, it's all about what each company can bring to the table. As you may already know, Sony has already announced the $100 price cut and new 80GB model. This was supposedly an E3 announcement, but sony had to confirm because stores such as best buy had already advertised price cuts. Hopefully this isn't the only good news Sony has up there sleeve for E3, and I'm personally hoping for a PSP redesign, I bought the PSP on launch day, which I bought with money obtained from the sale of my DS, but later sold the PSP for a DS Lite, and I never got to play Portable Ops :(

Microsoft will have to have alot to put on the table, Halo 3 is good and all, but they can't just depend on that. The one announcement I'm hoping for is MGS4 going multi-platform, so I dont have to invest in a PS3...

Now, Nintendo, this E3 is crucial for their success, sure, they've had unprecidented sales, but they just don't have the games to back the figures up. We have the big 3, but what beyond that? Hopefully the Mario Kart in Europe 07 is true, but that means the Smash bros won't be here until 2008.

Overall, it's going to be a very exciting E3, and It's going to be interesting to see what each company can bring to the plate...

Metroid Prime was always a game that was criticized by hardcore fans of the side-scrolling shooter, which was replaced by the First-Person Adventure that is Prime. The first in the series was a great game, but the backtracking got to a point where it was just plain annoying. Echoes, the second game in the series, was virtually the same game, but with a dark "ether" world, and a tacked on multi-player. Can Prime 3 revitalize the Metroid franchise, and revolutionize the first-person genre like the original Halo did?



Many of you may have read the review in PLAY magazine, that stated that the controls are so refined the latest build, that it could possibly compete for the greatness in the genre that Halo currently holds. But is this an overstatement?

Halo's controls redefined the genre, and perfected the dual-stick analogue controls that almost every FPS since has used, the main question is, can Metroid do the same? The wiimote provides a perfect control scheme for First-Person games, but games that have used it to date, like Red Steel and Call of Duty, have failed at utilizing the controller to it's max potential. All I'm hoping is that, by the 27th of August, we will have a game that will glorify the genre and put Nintendo back at the top...