Today's hottest game video: WarioWare
by Zack Stern 
{ Dec 31st 2006 at 12:00AM }
Gamers have WarioWare on the mind; yesterday's multiplayer footage is today's most-watched YouTube game video. But Wario haters, don't think you're out of Wario's woods yet. After a long debate, with lots of wild gesturing, we decided that the most-viewed GameTrailers video -- also WarioWare -- would take today's "hottest" crown.
The GameTrailers sequence is worth watching for its exposition about the game. Much of it is obvious to WarioWare: Smooth Moves fans, but a few new kernels of information -- like surprise Mii appearances -- pop up about the upcoming Wii game, soon to be available outside of Japan. We liked WarioWare's first GBA outing, but we've been wary of the formula since then. Maybe Smooth Moves will draw us back into the series.
See the full video after the break.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Larb @ Dec 31st 2006 12:16AM
Is that narrated by Samuel L? LOL??
E8 Foe @ Dec 31st 2006 12:20AM
Oh man, I can't wait for this game. This video was much more inspiring than the strange and confusing and "I wonder how the heck that would actually work" multiplayer vid.
Oh wait, I CAN wait, seeing as how I can't find a Wii! Oh well, back to my 360 and Rainbow Six Vegas, College Hoops 2k7, Assault Heroes, Geometry Wars, Gears of War...
The awesome 360 library kinda makes the pain of not being able to track down a Wii much less painful.
nabisco @ Dec 31st 2006 12:19AM
Looks pretty sweet to me.
Frowelishnu @ Dec 31st 2006 12:23AM
No it's narrated by the token black guy from AOTS (Will).
And that looks hella fun!
Boric @ Dec 31st 2006 12:35AM
Uhhh, Ashley isn't new... she was in the DS game if I'm not mistaken...
Also as a note, Mii's popping up was mentioned in the latest issue of Nintendo Power a couple weeks back :)
I can't wait for this game, I'll be all over it.
G.Quagmire @ Dec 31st 2006 1:20AM
Temple of Porn! Giggity giggity giggity, I'm in!!!
Steve 3.2 @ Dec 31st 2006 1:47AM
Wario Ware does look pretty sweet. A new video from Cabel (the guy who did the DS Lite reviews earlier this year) was number two earlier today. Check out Saints Row Bugs: The Musical --
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l_YN-yRCVY
Good to have Cabel back for some video fun. :)
dregggy @ Jan 3rd 2007 4:24AM
I cant wait for it, but first i need to get ,yself a wii.
whatdoodoo @ Dec 31st 2006 8:42AM
God people look stupid playing gamecube with new controller... i mean wii sorry. Corny ass games, what a waste of $250
Jonathan @ Dec 31st 2006 8:55AM
Hey Whatdoodoo, that line is REAL old, you seriously need to get some new material.
As for me, my desire for this game burns with the intensity of 1,000 suns..
smellslikepie @ Dec 31st 2006 11:08AM
Jonathon - you comment on Whatdoodoo's old line then you go and use one yourself. Hypocrite.
mkoracer @ Dec 31st 2006 12:45PM
sellslikepie, the word hypocrite is so old it's already in the dictionary.
Picklesworth @ Dec 31st 2006 12:49PM
Excellent video. Thanks!
Whatdoodoo... It looks like you are having trouble recognizing the difference between a cube and a rectangle.
Maybe this will help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectangle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectangular_prism
A cube has 6 sides of equal area, while a rectangle has one set of parallel sides that are equal to each-other, and another set of different parallel sides that are not equal.
delsvr @ Dec 31st 2006 2:03PM
Am I the only one who thinks this game looks awful? It reminds me a lot of Mario Party except with less coherency and more asinine minigames. Is the payoff seriously shooting a floating nose with bananas? Playing NES mario and SNES starfox? "Some later levels even spin new elements into the game... Hulahooping for 3 seconds is fun, but can you keep it up indefinitely?" You've got to be shitting me.
If this is some underhanded satire of Wii gameplay, then I apologize for completely missing the point. If this is really a legitimate game trailer, then Nintendo is really botching up the "innovation" of their game controllers with patronizing and ridiculous gameplay. Just goes to show how out of sync the US video game culture is with Japan's (see Cooking Mama for the DS).
Jonathan @ Dec 31st 2006 3:19PM
Apparently there are just some who don't "get it" with WarioWare. The point is not just the games themselves, but the randomness and quickness in which they throw them at you. Go pick up WarioWare for GBA, DS, or Gamecube and once you understand you can thank me later.
Personally speaking, what excites me most about this game is the multi-player aspect, combined with some of the great "poses" they have you start with using the remote. Like have you seen the "elephant pose"? I can't wait to see my friends desperately trying to perform tasks with the remote held up to their schnozz.. that alone will be worth the price of the game.
Capt. Castellanos @ Dec 31st 2006 4:01PM
was that nes starfox shooting ROB!?
that was really unexpected.
as is the rest of the game, but you get my point.
Sidepocket @ Jan 1st 2007 8:43AM
@ delsvr
You never played Wario Ware before have you. You sound like the morons who thought DDR would never sell.
Rent it yourself, if you still do not like it...kill yourself. You will be dissapointed with everything. ;)
adam @ Dec 31st 2006 7:54PM
Yes this game does look fun and sweet.
Also, the wii is just a gamecube upgraded to about xbox level with a new controller. The best graphics are in zelda, and it's a gamecube game. Don't pretend the wii is better then it really is.
John @ Dec 31st 2006 9:22PM
OK I'm getting tired of these games that use this remote in "interesting" ways...I mean balance those with some real video games please! I like Rabid Rabbits and Super Monkey Balls....but after a while...I'm longing for something with a little more to do than swing myself around...or jump up and down etc.. Come on designers.
cbimerrow @ Jan 2nd 2007 5:37AM
#16 "Also, the wii is just a gamecube upgraded to about xbox level"
What I find really funny is that the gamecube was just as powerful if not slightly more powerful than the xbox in some ways, and yet people think for some reason it was leaps and bounds ahead of the other systems. It was a freakin' Celeron 733 processor and a GeForce 3.5 with 64MB of memory. It wasn't even passable as a gaming PC when it was released.
Does that mean it was a bad system? No, not at all. But people who think it was some mythical fount of graphics and horsepower really need to play something other than Halo.
Oh and if you think Zelda has the best graphics on the Wii you haven't played many Wii games. Showing my brother my component cables vis a vis Zelda on a nice LCD HDTV elicited "Eh, that's not worth 30 bucks..." but Call of Duty 3 was more like "Okay, THAT'S worth 30 bucks..." Rayman went over well, too...