Classic Game Room presents a CGR Undertow video game review of Elebits from Konami for the Nintendo Wii. The hybrid spawn of Half-Life and Pikmin, Elebits is all about collecting electric critters with the magic of the Wii Remote, and it was one of the first games to deliver on the promise of the Wiis ambitious control concepts. This video game review features Elebits video gameplay footage showing Nintendo Wii video game play and commentary....
I did not need to play this much to realise that this game is simply brilliant. It mixes a bit of Lemmings, Pikmin, Ghostbusters, Half-Life 2 Gravity Gun and a similar physics engine, and what you have here is a... make a mess em up sort of game. Dont let the video fool you, this is far from being just anohter FPS. Its a breeze of fresh, addictive fun gameplay and very Wii oriented Konami greatness. This was the first time I played the game, and I cant recommend it enought, especilay if you got the extra Wiimotes and like mi...
Story time! One of my friends (not giving names) was the first one I heard making up the whole Wii cant do good physics thing, so I showed him my previous example of putting a crapload of objects and then doing funky stuff with it, but the first noticable thing was that there was lag, and since the lag was as bad as 21 frames per second, a game that hardware-stressing would be unplayable. So I found a sweet spot where everything goes at about 60 frames per second, and went from there. Same as before, this is only the Wiis be...
This is a stage I made in Elebits, and pretty much describes the average Elebits mission, and everything I love and hate about the game. Great physics and gameplay style, and you can have loads of objects onscreen at a time. Very fun, quick, and zany. On the downside, there are framerate drops frequently. The game is still playable, but youl consiously be knowing that the framerate drop is there. In this particular mission, there can be as much as 300-400 objects onscreen at once (I used up all my cost, meaning this level wi...
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