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All three SKUs use “exact same” board.
Activision has revealed that Tony Hawk: Ride on Wii lets you skate as your Mii avatar.
This feature separates the game from PS3 and Xbox 360 versions, which are also due out on 4th December.
“One of the big wins for us is that you can skate as your Miis. We kept asking to get this feature in, and Nintendo liked what they saw,” producer Yale Miller told IGN.
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Wii explanation, story, gameplay.
A source close to Disney has let slip the first details of Warren Spector’s new Wii game, Epic Mickey, to Eurogamer.
The choice of platform, incidentally, boils down to Mickey’s tools – paintbrushes, erasers, thinner, pencils and other artist tools – being mapped to Wii remote gestures.
But let’s rewind a bit.
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Game Informer puts an end to rumour.
US magazine Game Informer has announced Epic Mickey as its November cover feature, confirming the game as Wii-exclusive and in development at Junction Point Studios, where Warren Spector runs the show.
The revealation puts and end to months of speculation, although whether the finer details – which we rounded up in July – turn out to be true remains to be seen.
The cover art on the Game Informer website (via VG247) shows Mickey with a paintbrush in his hand facing off against a massive monster made of a black oil-like substance. A castle looms in the background, and both Mickey and beast appear to be melting away. It’s dark, it’s moody – it looks brilliant.
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If you live in the West, at any rate.
Capcom is likely to scrap the online charge for Monster Hunter Tri when the game heads West.
“It’s something that we’re looking into at the moment and there are a few factors to consider. Firstly, Monster Hunter isn’t as popular in the West, so it might put people off. Secondly, Japan doesn’t have Friend Codes, so Capcom run all the servers and the monthly fee is essentially to pay for those costs,” Capcom’s Chris Kramer told GamingUnion (via Kotaku).
WiiSpeak support is another area the publisher is looking into for Monster Hunter Tri’s Western release, although there is nothing set in stone just yet.
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