Best Nintendo Wii Games: These Three Video Games are the Best the Wii Console has to Offer

Nintendo’s Wii console is an unqualified success in the gaming industry. According to GameDaily.com, nearly 14 million households in the United States now own one. An unfortunate consequence of the console’s huge success is the large numbers of sub-par developers hoping to capitalize on its popularity by producing low-quality games.

Fortunately, excellent games exist for the console and this guide should help those interested in differentiating between worthless shovelware and a high-quality gaming experience. Any of these three games would make an excellent choice as a holiday gift or for anyone simply looking for a good-quality title.

Super Mario Galaxy

Easily the best game for the system, Super Mario Galaxy is the first game since Super Mario 64 to approach its predecessor’s quality. Mario Galaxy garnered fantastic reviews from the entire gaming community. Miyamoto’s first true Mario platformer for the Nintendo Wii is among the best games currently available.

In Super Mario Galaxy, gamers guide Mario on a perilous quest to once again save Princess Peach from the clutches of his arch-nemesis Bowser. Mario travels to various creatively-designed worlds featuring amazing puzzles that take advantage of the game’s excellent gravity mechanic.

Each level is a tiny galaxy unto itself, and Mario must make his way from planetoid to planetoid, defeating enormous bosses and collecting powerups that transform him into various useful forms. Super Mario Galaxy is truly a must play for any Nintendo Wii owner.

Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess

The Nintendo Wii was the first console ever to launch with a Zelda game available on day one. For many, Twilight Princess was the reason to buy a Wii.

In Twilight Princess, players help protagonist Link make his way through a beautifully-crafted overworld and the terrifying Shadow Realm in order to save Princess Zelda and the entire land of Hyrule from an evil darkness. Twilight Princess blends excellent melee combat with in-depth puzzle solving action to create one of the most compelling games in the Zelda series.

Any fan of puzzle solving or RPG games would do well to give Twilight Princess a try. Few games deliver as compelling an experience.

Super Smash Brothers Brawl

Super Smash Brothers Brawl is a unique and compelling twist on the fighting game genre. Players take control of a huge roster of Nintendo favorites including Mario, Samus Aran, and Donkey Kong as well as guest stars including Sonic the Hedgehog to battle one another on various amazing single-screen stages. The goal is simple: forcibly remove opponents from the stage by first weakening them with melee and special attacks and then launching them off screen.

The violence in Smash Brothers is comic in nature; characters attack one another with fireballs, magic wands, and baseball bats. The game is suitable for gamers of all ages and playing Smash Brothers with three friends is one of the most amazing social experiences in all of gaming.

There’s a reason this list is comprised of Nintendo’s first-party titles. When it comes to developing for their systems, nobody makes games like Nintendo does. With a few rare exceptions, Nintendo’s first-party lineup delivers consistent high-quality games. Super Mario Galaxy, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, and Super Smash Brothers Brawl are the best the Wii has to offer.

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Dec 22, 2008 12:18 AM

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Most of the developers for the Wii need to be ashamed of themselves. It simply says that "Hey my company sucks, don't ever buy any of the crap we produce because we aren't thinking about making a quality game for you, we want you to be stupid enough to buy a low quality game from us". If there were a demo channel on the Wii alot of game would be passed up because they simply stink beyond belief (i.e. Elevator missions).

Out with the old lame ported games, the games for the Gamecube looked better, and this system has more power, whats wrong with this picture? I guess the Wii is the stepping stone for new developers, so that they can make money off of crap, before using what they've learned to make an actual good looking game for a entirely different game system.

We shall see what The Conduit can do, but it looked a little grainy to me in the movies i've seen. The other systems get the good games, and we get nothing but this party crap games, hahaha who wants to throw a ball in a cup on the Wii? For $50?! We can spend 2 bucks to buy a cheap pack of cups, crumble up some paper and do toss with $48 to spare and it would be a lot more fun.

Voice chat needs to be for some of these FPS games as well, and since The Conduit is supposed to have Wii Speak capability i'll go from there when it comes to rating it, so "to be determined".

For now though, everyone on the Wii bandwagon, don't buy crap for the sake of just having a new Wii game. Join me in contacting these companies to let them know that we are aware of their intentional slacking and they need to actually do some freaking work that makes us say "wow". One of the best games that i've played for the Wii outside of Nintendo first party titles has been "Lost Winds", which is a Wii Ware downloadable title. You know you suck when a game on disc is put to shame by a smaller sized Wii Ware title.

Every game doesn't need to use the Wii mote, the Wii classic controller is available, and should be an option for fighting games, and FPS games. I hope that SNK makes King of Fighters 12 for the Wii, and we can use the Wii classic controller for it, the Wii-mote would totally stink when it comes to that.