EA announces Wii rhythm and karaoke game, Boogie
by Ludwig Kietzmann 
on Mar 22nd 2007 2:53PM
With
Rayman's musical mini-games and the
multi-peripheral DDR franchise already making passes at the Wii, it would seem that Nintendo's system gets along famously with the rhythm genre. The two are like a pair of dazed lovers skipping blissfully through a park, unaware that their uncontrolled flailing and unexpected gyration is leaving everyone in the nearby vicinity with bloody noses and swollen eyeballs. That certainly sounds like the ideal Wii experience, at least according to EA -- they've just announced
Boogie, a Wii-exclusive rhythm game that wants you to dance, pose and sing your way to living room stardom.
On the heels of XBLA's
Boom Boom Rocket and EA's announced intention to bust into music games
"sooner than you think" comes a game which, at first glance, appears to be the result of Tim Burton drunkenly colliding with a
Singstar demo kiosk.
Boogie will see gamers producing the moves and vocals for a music video, presumably making use of that
super secret Wii microphone. The nunchuck is also incorporated here, giving rise to the possibility that the microphone peripheral itself may also harbor motion-sensing abilities akin to that of the Wiimote. What's the use of a microphone if you can't twirl it about like a buffoon?
