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Monday, June 22, 2009

WiiWare: NA Nintendo Update - NEVES Plus, Drill Sergeant Mindstrong, Family Mini Golf & SimEarth

nevesplus.pngNEVES Plus

Wii Points: 600
Game Type: Puzzle
Control Type: Wii Remote
Players: 1-4
Publisher:YUKES Company of America

"Try your hand at the newest addicting puzzle craze to come out of Japan—NEVES Plus! Enhanced for WiiWare, NEVES Plus not only retains all the simple, mind-bending tangram-based game play from the original Nintendo DS version but includes all new multiplayer modes wrapped up in an Egyptian theme. This time, you and up to three others can work together to move, rotate, and flip the seven Lucky stones into each of the 500+ silhouette puzzles. Or, you can challenge one another in any of the new multiplayer modes such as Versus, Speed, Lucky Number, and Party Mode! Whether you play every mode by yourself or with friends, NEVES Plus is set to charm you with its deceptively harder-than-they-look silhouette puzzles."

familyminigolfwiiw.pngFamily Mini Golf

Wii Points: 500
Game Type: Sports
Control Type: Wii Remote
Players: 1-8
Publisher: Aksys Games
Unique Features: Add-on Content

"Daddy, Mommy, Sarah, and Billy are back for some mini-golf action! Play through multiple golf courses that contain obstacles ranging from bumpers to speed ramps to fans and more! Up to eight players can play with one another using a single Wii Remote! See who among all your friends is truly the best at tackling every course. You can download new courses to continue the fun-filled mini-golf experience. They up the ante, creating even more complex and difficult mini-golf courses to overcome. Can you conquer all the courses and become the mini-golf champion!?"

drillsergeantwiiw.pngDrill Sergeant Mindstrong

Wii Points: 800
Game Type: Puzzle
Control Type: Wii Remote, Nunchuk
Players: 1-4
Publisher: XSEED Games

"Line up and get ready to use your mind! Drill Sergeant Mindstrong is a party game that allows up to four people to play at once. Players will become boot-camp trainees under the tough Drill Sergeant Mindstrong and go through mind-boggling, mind-strengthening training games. The rules are simple, but concentration and quick thinking are both key to playing this game and emerging as lean, mean, thinking machines. Become the top boot of your class and earn promotions based on your efforts! This game is best played with friends and family."

virtualconsole.pngSimEarth: The Living Planet

Original platform: TurboGrafx16 CD-ROM
Wii Points: 800
Game Type: Simulation
Publisher: Hudson Entertainment

"An entire planet becomes your laboratory in this large-scale simulation game. Players help foster new life and promote its evolution into life-forms of higher intelligence. Guide civilization along the path of evolution until it can achieve Exodus, the ultimate goal of settling on another planet. The basic challenge of the game is to maintain a comfortable environment for the life-forms by adjusting atmospheric and geological parameters. Small organisms called Prokaryote and Trichordate will grow and evolve into a multitude of life-forms. Making a drastic change is a recipe for disaster. The key to success is to make small adjustments and watch how the life-forms react. SimEarth also includes planets with environments different from Earth, such as Mars and Venus. Try your hand at terraforming these planets with harsh conditions into a world where life can thrive."

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