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A new blog has burst on the scene that has some excellent articles, which is "That Videogame Blog."
I enjoyed their recently published "Wii controls: the successes and failures," due to its level headed opinion and non-strident tone. Many gaming voices shout "foul!" when referring to the realized potential of the Wii so far, but Ashutosh Chhibbar recognizes that there has been a reasonable attempt to parlay the Wii remote to hardcore gaming, while at the same time recognizing its shortcomings.

At the top of his list are games such as resident evil 4 and No More Heroes. I'm particularly glad he suggested Resident Evil 4. Some gamers hated the Wii controls. I thought they were fantastic. He also bemoaned the fate of Medal of Honor Heroes 2: great controls, fully realized, but on what was essentially a PSP port. This doomed the game to poor sales from the start, and Metroid Prime 3 isn't enough of a FPS game to prove that this genre can succeed on Wii.

Read.