Well, I believe there is some skiing or snowboarding game that's coming out, that will make use of the Wii Fit for that.

That too seems to be an interesting interface that opens up various control possibilities.

I've got to say, I'm with baconfish. I own a Wii, and after the initial novelty of Wii Sports wore off, I was so underwhelmed by the wiimote that I was going to put it on eBay.

And then I discovered Trauma Center: Second Opinion.

Yes, I've played Super Mario Galaxy. It's alright, but I don't care much for Mario games to begin with, and ceaseless, mindless "3D platforming" isn't really fun. I also played Super Paper Mario: funny, but also way too wordy. I own Resident Evil 4. It's alright. Own Rayman: Raving Rabbids. It's stupid.

Even Trauma Center is half annoying. The ceaseless ren'ai-style melodrama is uninspired and tedious, but fortunately there's a skip button. The surgeries, however, are awesome. They don't rely on extreme, full-range motions. They don't require - or even suggest - you to stand or assume any particular pose. In fact, if not for one movement I've made so far (grabbing bone fragments with my tongs and rotating my wrist and hand to rotate them into place), the game could be played with any kind of pointer interface - mouse or stylus for instance, which isn't surprising considering that it was originally a Nintendo DS game.

I'm giving Metroid Prime 3: Corruption a whirl tomorrow. I think it'll be an interesting FPS control implementation for an hour or four, and then it'll be just another bland experiment. I'm sorry, but the wiimote is wildly overrated as a revolutionary control device.

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A decent tennis game where the spins make sense would be a good start. Am I the only one who is utterly confused as to why a slice shot travels faster through the air than a flat shot or one with top spin in Wii Sports?

Or why you can't pick which side you hold your racket to based on where you point your wiimote. It completely divorces the movement of your racket from your live movements...

The only Wii Sports game that i find remotely playable and enjoyable is the bowling.

Seriously though, none of them are really any more that tech demos.

wii javelin.
But seriously, a multiplayer rafting game has to be the best idea. They couldn't get the controls of that wrong, the action is so simple and doesn't encourage you to be lightning fast and then not be able to keep up. Maybe one of you on the raft also has an uzi. So its a bit like chase HQ - but with rafts.

Actually yeah, a good rafting game could be fun. Steering and stroking are tied to button presses, stick/D-pad movements and the tilt of the gamepad. If you tip over, you have to try and recover, and at least one player could be on there as a gunner.

Dammit, lovegoose, now you got me interested.... :P

I think its just about daft enough to be very popular at a low price. The idea of a police chase on rafts down white water rapids.
I was thinking that the wiimote is actually the paddle -

So no need for any buttons or even the d-pad really.