Sweet jesus! Is he riding a motorcycle down the side of a sky scraper?? I dunno if I'll be buying a Wii for Madworld, but I know for a fact I will have to rent the system for it. God damn!

It makes me so sad that no one is promoting or excited about Infinite Line/Infinite Space. That's probably the Platinum game that I'm most jazzed for, and I hear narry a word spoken about it.

(whoops, they're)

@ atastsammich- We musy have very different taste in games, because I get at least one quality Wii game a month.

This month it's been Castlevania III, which sort of doesn't count, but it's still a game I could get on the other consoles.

I'm definitely excited for Sega's 2009 Wii lineup. MadWorld looks awesome, as does House of the Dead: Overkill and The Conduit.

I'm also intrigued by Deadly Creatures. If the game is as good as the trailers, it'll be pretty awesome.

@holmes: The virtual consel is what makes me look at the Wii without violent rage each month..sweet mega man three right now..secret of mana and castlevania 3 around the corner..but It can't hold me over for ever!

The only problem I might see with the game is short completion time, and little to do afterwards, other than that it's a pretty amazing game.

Do you know why people have said Wii has no games before, perri? It's because the Wii really didn't have that many good games, then all of a sudden 2009 looks awesome.

@CALkulon: Allow me to assuage your worries. It isn't going to have any depth. It's specifically designed to be an old school beat-em up with an emphasis on score. The constraints of its genre limit it in that respect . . . but I'd imagine it will be one of the finest examples ever of what it's actually trying to be.

@Jonathan Holmes
Games that have been ported to the Wii or are multi-platform games do not count. This rules out the Virtual Store and any of the multiplatform titles for the Wii.

Face facts, the really good 'core' games that the Wii has are as follows:
-Twilight Princess
-Mario Galaxy
-Metroid Prime 3
-No More Heroes
-Madworld
-Smash Bros. Brawl

Two of these games I own (Twilight Princess and Brawl), I played Mario Galaxy and I didnt really feel like playing an updated version of Mario 64. I've never been a Metroid fan, the Prime series on the failcube never changed that. I'm probably going to try No More Heroes and Madworld at the same time, after I beat my good games for my other systems.

These are games that have been released since the start of the Wii's era. I could put together a list longer than this of core games that have hit the PS3 and/or 360 in six months. The fact isnt that 'hardcore' gamers ignore core games for the Wii, its just that you can only give so much attention to six games.

I agree with you Seph. Out of the games you've listed many of them aren't universally accepted as good games. Many people don't enjoy them. For example I didn't like Galaxy at all, SSBB was a disappointment, and I didn't enjoy MP3 (and I loved the original Metroid Prime).

You did forget Paper Mario though. Somewhat enjoyable but the game was too gimmicky to be a really big draw (the 2d-3d gimmick not the waggle gimmick).

I think the mention of the absolutely wonderful Super Paper Mario brings up an important point that lies at the core of the "no good games on wii" blah blah blah argument that rages consistantly. Or, at least, my main opinion on the subject. (Please keep in mind that anything I say here will not be in referrence to Virtual Console titles. They are not Wii games . . . but other system's games that are available on the Wii)

Good games exist on the Wii. This is so barely objective that it borders on fact. It is something that no intelligent gamer with an propensity for any sort of critical anaylsis will deny. The real question that bothers me is not "are there good games on the Wii?," but, "how necessary is it that these good games actually be on the Wii?"

With the exception of the masterful Zack & Wiki and Lost Winds, I can think of no game on the Wii that I have enjoyed wherein the motion controls and IR functionality have actually been inseparable parts of the game that could not be mapped to analogues or simply omitted.

It is not a topic for debate that underneath the hood, the Wii is little more than a souped-up Gamecube. When one removes Wii remote functions, one is left with little else than a game that would have been impressive 3 years ago.

The Wii's unfortunately mired in a sludge of it's own outdatedness. Motion controls in many of my favorite titles are either dispensible additions, ignorable gimmicks, or desperate attempts to breath fresh life into otherwise outdated mechanics.

This brings me back to Super Paper Mario (SPM). SPM is not a Wii game. It is a Gamecube game. It was developed for the Cube over the course of 2 years, then delayed, injected with forgettable IR and motion functions, and released on the Wii.

This is the feeling I get with many of my favorite Wii games. Every time I boot up Metroid Prime 3, or think about Madworld. I wonder to myself whether or not these wonderful and ambitious titles wouldn't have been better served 1) Coming out years ago, or 2) on a console with more power and better integrated network and High def technology.

I feel I am not alone in this. Many who believe the Wii to be passable don't necessarily think that the games on the Wii are bad as a rule . . . they just find them unecessary. They have moved on to larger consoles, that provide them with more advanced, evolved experiences that are more difficult to pass on.

Personally I like the Wii, and enjoy loads of games on it. But I can sympathize with many who feel this way . . . and I find the opinion entirely justified.

I can't wait for this game :-)

I know you all are going to hate me for this but; Mad World looks great, great enough so, that I wish...

...it were in color....

/hides :P

But seriously it's great looking.