After a big week last week releasing four games, Nintendo gears back down to its normal conservative self. This week in Wii DLC we have a game for everyone and a game for one. For everyone in your household we have Gammick Entertainment's Family&Friends Party. After searching their site extensively and finding no trace of the game, I had to rely on on Nintendo's exciting trailer. You may not have family or friends to play with when they find out you spent 1,000 Wii Points on this game.On the flip side of the coin, on Virtual Console, is another Square Enix RPG from the Super NES days: Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen. In what looks like another Final Fantasy clone, you must follow the time-honored tradition of collecting a group and defeating veiled menace. Then again, compared to our other new installment, this is 800 Wii Points well spent. Both are rated E for Everyone.
In like a lamb and out like a lion, or vice-versa? Whether March finds you digging out from a late-winter blizzard or reeling in the spring thaw, the fun is both mild and wild at the Wii Shop Channel. Even the littlest lambs in your household can take part in a cool new family-friendly WiiWare game, while strategy-loving gamers will be roaring like lions as they battle evil foes in a classic Virtual Console title.
Nintendo adds new and classic games to the Wii Shop Channel at 9 a.m. Pacific time every Monday. Wii owners with a high-speed Internet connection can redeem Wii Points to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel or at retail outlets. This week's new games are:
WiiWare
Family
&Friends Party (Gammick Entertainment, 1-8 players, Rated E for
Everyone, 1,000 Wii Points): Have fun with all your friends and family
as you take on some very exciting challenges. This is an interactive
board game for as many as eight players of all ages. The goal is to be
the first to complete a series of challenges. During each turn, a
challenge will be played by one or two players per team depending on the
type of challenge you've been given. (Other players on your team can
still help and support you). There are six different "Single" challenges
that must be played cooperatively by members of the same team. Family&
Friends Party can also suggest "Versus" challenges, which must be played
competitively by all teams at the same time.
Virtual Console
Ogre
Battle: The March of the Black Queen (Super NES, 1 player, Rated E
for Everyone, 800 Wii Points): It's up to you to defeat the Empire. It's
been nearly a quarter of a century since the Zetegenian Empire first
conquered the Kingdoms of Zenobia with a wrath of fear and bloodshed.
You are the leader of a band of rebels who've fought to preserve the
last shred of honor in this desperate time of treachery. Manage the
ranks of a full-blown rebel army, complete with hundreds of characters,
magic items, weapons and mystical Tarot cards. You must succeed in
ousting the evil usurpers-your fate, and that of the entire population,
depends on it.
