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Wii Screen Shot Thread (56k no)
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Super Smash Brothers Brawl
From the E3 Video (pardon the borders)
From the E3 Video (pardon the borders)
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Sonic: Secret of the Rings
Taken off-screen from recent Wii Event video. As always, pardon the borders, but moreover, pardon the blur. This game simply must be seen to believed. The speed is unreal, and while framerates look a little choppy at this point, the draw distance is unbelievable. This game looks so good in motion its scary. Check out the part with all the water and dinosaurs if possible.
Taken off-screen from recent Wii Event video. As always, pardon the borders, but moreover, pardon the blur. This game simply must be seen to believed. The speed is unreal, and while framerates look a little choppy at this point, the draw distance is unbelievable. This game looks so good in motion its scary. Check out the part with all the water and dinosaurs if possible.
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Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Taken off-screen from recent Wii Event video. As always, pardon the borders, but moreover, pardon the blur because its in motion. Shockingly good. The video shows a very tight control with the camera panning very quickly with the gun/arm. By far the best thing about this would be the particle effects on almost everything. Every shot, every enemy, every action comes with a nice glow/sparks/halo of smoke and gives the whole thing a nice atmosphere.
This is gonna be huge.
Yeah. It's widescreen.
Taken off-screen from recent Wii Event video. As always, pardon the borders, but moreover, pardon the blur because its in motion. Shockingly good. The video shows a very tight control with the camera panning very quickly with the gun/arm. By far the best thing about this would be the particle effects on almost everything. Every shot, every enemy, every action comes with a nice glow/sparks/halo of smoke and gives the whole thing a nice atmosphere.
This is gonna be huge.
Yeah. It's widescreen.
Pureauthor
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I'm leaning towards buying the Sonic game.
Ned Flanders
Banned
F*ck!!
Mario looks fantastic. The lighting is amazing and the animation and attention to detail makes it look like almost like a Pixar flick.
MP3 looks ace also. The detail doesn't seem like a huge leap from the GC editions, but the effects are impressive and its not as though the other titles weren't among the best looking from last gen. Gfx aside, I'm sure the game itself is going to be fantastic.
Zelda gets the same treatment as MP3..the obvious GC influence lingers, but I remember seeing the GC shots a year ago thinking that it was perhaps the best looking game (art and detail included) I'd ever seen. Certainly the best from last gen. If the sparks and lighting equal Mario's quality, the game is sure to dazzle. And it certainly appears to be chock full of classic Zelda gameplay goodness.
Excite Truck looks like pure fun. It reminds me of golden-age era AM2 racers. Bright colors and sharp polys, and the lens flare and incredible draw distance coupled with that Burnout style blur makes for an extremely appealing looking game. Perhaps my most anticipated of the bunch.
I feel the same way about Sonic that I do about Excite Truck. Dazzling environments, and great use of color and sense of speed give me the sense that this could be the truest Sonic experience since the franchise went 3D. The textures on some of the grabs look less than stellar, but I have a feeling that for the speedier areas they used lower resolution textures to focus on the bg's (that will remain in focus despite the crawl of the nearby scenery), and that the slower moving sections will recieve the more detailed treatment. Regardless, it looks FUN, which is usually the most important thing.
Wii Sports, though simple, looks highly amusing and appears to be the perfect product to introduce and warm up the consumer to the functionality of the controller. Multiplayer fun for sure.
Call of Duty looked might impressive as well. You can clearly tell that you probably could not achieve that level of visual quality on previous gen hardware. And the potential of FPS gameplay (particularly the duck/cover and zoom mechanics) with the Wii controller is amazing. Could replace mouse play as the preffered method of controlling FPS's.
In all, I'm just incredibly psyched for the whole thing. Even Tony Hawk, despite my initial level of disappointment, looks like it could be a lot of fun. I really can't wait to get my hands on the system and give some of these titles a spin. Just the fact that Mario, Zelda, AND Metroid are all landing within the launch window is amazing to me. Unprecedented in Nintendo's history if memory serves, and particularly gratifying after the GC launch featured none of the companies greatest franchises at launch. I can't frikkin wait!
Mario looks fantastic. The lighting is amazing and the animation and attention to detail makes it look like almost like a Pixar flick.
MP3 looks ace also. The detail doesn't seem like a huge leap from the GC editions, but the effects are impressive and its not as though the other titles weren't among the best looking from last gen. Gfx aside, I'm sure the game itself is going to be fantastic.
Zelda gets the same treatment as MP3..the obvious GC influence lingers, but I remember seeing the GC shots a year ago thinking that it was perhaps the best looking game (art and detail included) I'd ever seen. Certainly the best from last gen. If the sparks and lighting equal Mario's quality, the game is sure to dazzle. And it certainly appears to be chock full of classic Zelda gameplay goodness.
Excite Truck looks like pure fun. It reminds me of golden-age era AM2 racers. Bright colors and sharp polys, and the lens flare and incredible draw distance coupled with that Burnout style blur makes for an extremely appealing looking game. Perhaps my most anticipated of the bunch.
I feel the same way about Sonic that I do about Excite Truck. Dazzling environments, and great use of color and sense of speed give me the sense that this could be the truest Sonic experience since the franchise went 3D. The textures on some of the grabs look less than stellar, but I have a feeling that for the speedier areas they used lower resolution textures to focus on the bg's (that will remain in focus despite the crawl of the nearby scenery), and that the slower moving sections will recieve the more detailed treatment. Regardless, it looks FUN, which is usually the most important thing.
Wii Sports, though simple, looks highly amusing and appears to be the perfect product to introduce and warm up the consumer to the functionality of the controller. Multiplayer fun for sure.
Call of Duty looked might impressive as well. You can clearly tell that you probably could not achieve that level of visual quality on previous gen hardware. And the potential of FPS gameplay (particularly the duck/cover and zoom mechanics) with the Wii controller is amazing. Could replace mouse play as the preffered method of controlling FPS's.
In all, I'm just incredibly psyched for the whole thing. Even Tony Hawk, despite my initial level of disappointment, looks like it could be a lot of fun. I really can't wait to get my hands on the system and give some of these titles a spin. Just the fact that Mario, Zelda, AND Metroid are all landing within the launch window is amazing to me. Unprecedented in Nintendo's history if memory serves, and particularly gratifying after the GC launch featured none of the companies greatest franchises at launch. I can't frikkin wait!
PantherLotus
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Super Mario Galaxy
From a video. Pardon where blurry. I'll let the images speak for themselves.
From a video. Pardon where blurry. I'll let the images speak for themselves.
Wow, those Metroid captures really do not do the game justice at all. The hi-res videos on IGN are amazing.
Edit:
The Mario shots still look great though.
I showed my wife the Zelda and Mario footage and she didn't believe me at first that it was real gameplay, I had to convince her it wasn't a cutscene. (Then again, she's used to playing nothing but Harvest Moon and OoT.)
Edit:
The Mario shots still look great though.
I showed my wife the Zelda and Mario footage and she didn't believe me at first that it was real gameplay, I had to convince her it wasn't a cutscene. (Then again, she's used to playing nothing but Harvest Moon and OoT.)
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AdamBot said:
yeah--it was damn near impossible to get a still shot from the high res video. i think it was because it had the expert-level control on. if you can get some better shots, feel free to post what you can get.
and yeah, SMG is ****ing breathtaking. It's like being able to live out The Little Prince exactly as it was imagined (sans the political subcontext). Too bad that it's not a launch game.
DonasaurusRex
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Super Mario Galaxy and SSB2 alone are enough to make me get this system. Lets not forget the reasonable price, and fact that these games look like the most fun out of all the next get games so far.
HisBrother
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DonasaurusRex said:
You mean SSB3 right?
Smiles and Cries
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I would really like to see Sonic in December to hold me over
can't wait to win the lotto and collect them all :lol
I would love my Wii library to be the largest yet... but I'm getting married to a non-gamer
she does well enough on Mario Kart DS though
can't wait to win the lotto and collect them all :lol
I would love my Wii library to be the largest yet... but I'm getting married to a non-gamer
she does well enough on Mario Kart DS though
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Monster 4X4 World Rally
slaughterking
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Stop releasing ugly high-res pics, UBI..
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BWii
From a video capture. The colors and animations in this game are amazing, especially the explosions. Here are some shots to show both of these, taken in action to give a better sense of what the game will look like in motion, although still shots (as always) will never do it justice. However, shots from a video are more accurate to me than something that a developer will release as "official." Take that for what it's worth.
From a video capture. The colors and animations in this game are amazing, especially the explosions. Here are some shots to show both of these, taken in action to give a better sense of what the game will look like in motion, although still shots (as always) will never do it justice. However, shots from a video are more accurate to me than something that a developer will release as "official." Take that for what it's worth.
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Need for Speed: Carbon
Taken from a video. These are all from one drift run down one track, so they don't vary too much, but they give a great look into the game. This series always looked great on the GC and it looks to continue that tradition with a much-wanted return to night time driving. Hopefully the NFSUII mod system will be back as well.
Note: I have not seen NFSC screenshots (gameplay) ANYWHERE. Consider these a first!
Taken from a video. These are all from one drift run down one track, so they don't vary too much, but they give a great look into the game. This series always looked great on the GC and it looks to continue that tradition with a much-wanted return to night time driving. Hopefully the NFSUII mod system will be back as well.
Note: I have not seen NFSC screenshots (gameplay) ANYWHERE. Consider these a first!
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TheDuce22 said:
It is generally presumed to be a little more than 2x as powerful as the GC.
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temp said:
Thanks alot. It's pretty sweet to see screenies I made off of videos appear on different sites, imperfection and all.
More screens as they become available.
happyfunball
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PantherLotus said:
If these are taken from gamevideos.com, then I think these are probably not Wii. The video is marked (Wii, PS3, X360).
HisBrother
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Even though the screen caps are pixelated in some areas it looks pimp! But than again..since when hasn't a NFS game look good?
At the moment..NFS Most Wanted can almost match up to that in some portions of the game and Im talking about the PC NFS:MW.
yodandy said:
At the moment..NFS Most Wanted can almost match up to that in some portions of the game and Im talking about the PC NFS:MW.
Why was there such a severe lack of impressions from Last week's Wii events? They surely had all the third party "port" games at the US event like Far Cry, Monster Rally, etc etc yet NO impressions of their control schemes. The Japanese event - Domino game, cooking mama, Tamagotchi, Forever blue....anything?! Project HAMMER?
And what is with the lack of media on games like Smash Bros, Mario Party 8, Disaster etc etc
And what is with the lack of media on games like Smash Bros, Mario Party 8, Disaster etc etc
Tchu-Espresso
likes mayo on everthing and can't dance
Apples are better than oranges.Wii said:
For people dissing 3rd party graphics on the Wii, you've gotta remember GameCube hardware is a whole new world to most of them, because sure as hell no one developed for that console.
Let the poor souls come to grips with the hard road of 'new gen'...
That said, just preordered Wii and CAN'T WAIT!
Let the poor souls come to grips with the hard road of 'new gen'...
That said, just preordered Wii and CAN'T WAIT!
winston_pr
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Mike Works said:
Are you surprised? Given that this is a SCREENSHOT thread, what else can we tangibly discuss but our visual impressions?
LanceStern
Banned
I'd say the best looking out of these screens in order would be:
1. Mario Galaxy
2. Zelda Twilight Princess
3. Metroid Prime 3
4. Sonic and the Secret Rings
5. Batallion Wars
Galaxy looks absolutely amazing and completely next-generation, as do the others (maybe Batallion Wars thanks to the explosion effects.
It really goes to show you what ghood art direction can do, and not just a big processor, some polygons, and a high-level engine
1. Mario Galaxy
2. Zelda Twilight Princess
3. Metroid Prime 3
4. Sonic and the Secret Rings
5. Batallion Wars
Galaxy looks absolutely amazing and completely next-generation, as do the others (maybe Batallion Wars thanks to the explosion effects.
It really goes to show you what ghood art direction can do, and not just a big processor, some polygons, and a high-level engine
LanceStern
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Games like these show that the Wii can indeed produce a WOW factor.
And I've never seen a more beautiful piece in a game than in Mario Galaxy when he's blasting off into the night atmosphere. It's just so freakin' JAW-DROPPING and reminds me of Disney movies of old.
Batallion Wars have naval battles now?! Sold
And I've never seen a more beautiful piece in a game than in Mario Galaxy when he's blasting off into the night atmosphere. It's just so freakin' JAW-DROPPING and reminds me of Disney movies of old.
Batallion Wars have naval battles now?! Sold
LanceStern
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And why the **** are you guys *****ing to Nintendo about N64/dreamcast-looking graphics? Besides elebits it's those lazy third party developers that can't get their act together. Nintendo is at least showing what the Wii can do both gameplay and graphics wise.
Tchu-Espresso
likes mayo on everthing and can't dance
Oh come on now. This is why people beat down the wii's graphics so much because people try to hoist them up to levels which they arent.LanceStern said:
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Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz
Latest released screens.
Latest released screens.
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Samurai Warriors Wave
Latest images.
Latest images.
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Far Cry Vengeance
Latest images
Latest images
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
Damn, Monkey Ball has come a long way in the last 4 months.
John Harker
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Hey, think you can get some HEROES captures?
That trailer looked amazing.
That trailer looked amazing.
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John Harker said:
Agreed. There's something about Sega's palette of colors that is just very pleasing to the eye. The same can be said about the pallet for the Dragon Ball Z game and BWii as well. Perhaps it's something Nintendo is encouraging--the best looking games seem to have a very bright, primary palette of complimenting colors.
Also, note that the games with a much more brown look (Samurai, COD3, etc) tend to look very muddy and the textures bleed together and nothing looks crisp at all. Maybe there's something to this...
edit: I'll get screen caps on Heroes when I get to my home cpu.