Surf through Azeroth on a Wii Balance Board
by Griffin McElroy 
{ Jun 15th 2008 at 7:00PM }
The starting zones in World of Warcraft are incredibly bleak and terrifying locales. Spend five minutes in one of these wastelands, and you're bound to see some half-naked adventurers begging for "teh g0ldenz", or people ruthlessly butchering all manner of local wildlife in search of some nice pants. At the very least, you'll see an uncoordinated young player, desperately a-jigglin' about as he tries to understand the game's controls.
However, perhaps there's something more to this clumsy rookie than an unfamiliarity with the WASD keys -- perhaps he's one half of an eccentric pair of German researchers who have grown fascinated with Nintendo's latest peripheral, the Balance Board. Perhaps he's demonstrating for a rapt YouTube audience how the board can be used to tool around Azeroth with the grace of an overweight alpaca, and would serve little use in the game's "high stress" situations.
Then again, perhaps he's just fantastically drunk.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
juju187 @ Jun 15th 2008 7:26PM
those crazy germans gonna get sued by the NINTEDO ELITE BEAT LAWSUIT TEAM
Jhongerkong @ Jun 15th 2008 7:32PM
LAWYERS ARE GO
Ihavepants @ Jun 15th 2008 10:28PM
HHAAALLLLP!!!
Worsel @ Jun 15th 2008 7:30PM
I actually raise alpacas... and yes, they are not that graceful.
juju187 @ Jun 15th 2008 7:50PM
micheal jackson raises alpaca o noes...
BIGGEN (LIVE-PSN: BIGGEN1103) @ Jun 15th 2008 8:20PM
WOW! totally useless!!
Jacksons @ Jun 15th 2008 8:44PM
About as useful as using a battle axe to make sushi. Sure, it can be done, but where's the benefit?
ThornedVenom (Harley Quinn Defense Force) @ Jun 17th 2008 11:29PM
It's a segway notion.
Kouheikun @ Jun 15th 2008 8:58PM
The only thing I liked in that video was the sexy German accent.
fawazr @ Jun 16th 2008 9:09AM
On a large enough screen, if you take out the game avatar, it looks like your actually moving through the 3-d world. That's cool!
Rikard @ Jun 16th 2008 11:03PM
Why didn't they try out Audiosurf?
Misfit Toy @ Jun 16th 2008 12:23PM
And that's all you can do...walk around. What happens when you want to fight or cast a spell? I rest my case on the uselessness of its functionality.