Call of Duty 3 Wii or Xbox360?
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Does the 360 version not include multiplayer? Otherwise I do not understand your comments at all.
2nd most played online game on Live (behind GoW)
it has an excellent online MP mode. I play it several times a week in fact. fast, easy to connect, large battles (join games in progress), everybody has a headset for good team communication, several game types etc.
well besides being a rumor, evidently that resolution advantage must be brilliant on the part of 360 to be able to pull it off (scaler) and have the end result be as below.
oh and back to the Online capabilities discussed above, re-reading those reviews I see that the PS3 online version does not have voice support at all.
Actually I thought that what he meant was that 360 and PS3 versions have much higher resolution than Wii version and the video didn't show it off.
unique, definitely. different, of course. better? depends. Personally, I found the sword slashing controls in Zelda sometimes a bit annoying to be honest, at times I would rather just press a button. (and do, there are a couple of sword moves that can be done just with the button) othertimes though, it does become kinda naturally to shake the nunchuk to get rid of an enemy that caught and bites me.
Can't really comment on that since I haven't tried an FPS on wii yet but it's certainly possible. Some reviews seem to point to that too, for example see gametrailers.com video review of cod 3 for wii.
again, being better or not depends on the game and the implementation. I guess it's widely accepted that Madden 07 for wii has better controls on wii than on other platforms but I haven't tried it yet so can't really comment.
What is better is definitely some of the wii sports and wii play titles. Bowling for example, I couldn't imagine getting into the game like that with any traditional gamepad or mouse/keyboard combo. Best example IMO where they really nailed it is the 9-ball billiards controls in Wii play. Now there's a game I would really pay more money to get more depth to the game. The aiming and hitting really make it the best billiards game ever, even as it is. Now if there more gameplay modes such as tournament / ranking gameplay, online multiplayer and most importantly less square, maybe longer table, maybe option to play snooker instead, I could easily see myself playing the game quite a lot more. As it is, its a nice demo with very best controls in a 9 ball billiards game ever.
In the cases where it's just different, well I guess game developers can come up with a good compromise on proper levels of autoaiming and such.
I guess the worst thing in the wiimote is the omission of another analog stick. Now if there was a dual analog wiimote, the issues of turning in fps games would be just gone. As it is though, we're back to single analog stick control compromises similar to N64 games, with a couple of tweaks that come with the motion sensing tech, still making turning fast enough quite clumsy, so far I've heard.
edit: speaking of another analog stick... it wasn't until third temple in Zelda when I realized how well the camera angles in the game actually mostly worked. Before that water temple thing, I hadn't even noticed I hadn't been manually adjusting the camera. Then when diving deep in a pool there I realized in that case it would have been helpful to adjust the camera but I couldn't do that since the other analog stick just isn't there
There's no point in looking at a trailer in order to choose to be honest. We know which version has the better graphics without looking.. The only really important question to answer is which controls better, since that's the only reason for getting the Wii version. I don't know the answer to that question personally. So I'd suggest trying both games out first.
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If you don't like online multiplayer (many of us don't, actually...losing matches 75-3 because we don't play hours and hours every day gets old fast) or thumbtack controllers, it's actually worth thinking about.
Heavily offtopic, I know, but still:
You should go and look for Virtual Pool 3 for the PC. Bargain bin game (in fact you might not be able to find it in a shop by now). Basically it did everything Wii Play billiards does 10 years ago, but better. It has an awesome push-mouse-to-control-your-cue play style which allows far more nuance than I've so far managed to get out of Wii Play billiards. Not to mention multiple pool game variants, the ability to raise the cue butt to perform swerve shots, etc...
I like Wii play billiards, but at the moment it just irritates me how much it is missing compared to Virtual Pool as a simulation of the real thing. My girlfriend, on the other hand, was intimidated by Virtual Pool years ago when I attempted to get her interested, but is all but addicted to Wii Play billiards...... which rather proves the effectiveness of offering simplified games to cater for a different audience.
