I want to play with my Wii!

My friend who works at a video game store bought a Wii yesterday, right after it came out. It came with Wii sports and he bought Zelda: Twilight Princess.

My evaluation: very cool. I'll admit that it wasn't totally 100% as cool as I had hoped, but that's because I had really high expectations. The remote really does follow your movements well, and it can tell how you are holding it. Wii sports comes with Tennis, Bowling, Boxing, Golf, etc... and you control your character akmost entirely by moving the remote(s). For the example, in the boxing game you hold a controller in one hand and the extension in the other hand, and it detects with hand you are hitting with and what kind of punch you are throwing. In the tennis game it swings the raquete when you swing the remote. My favorite part is that the controller vibrates and makes noise according to what you are doing. If you are playing tennis, the remove vibrates when you hit the ball and makes a 'boing' noise... feels very similar to holding a real raquete. All in all, very intuitive, and I am impressed.

Twilight Princess looks fun too. There were about 5 of us all switching off, so I didn't get that much play time, but this weekend I will get plenty more. The graphics are pretty, and the game still seems nice and simple (just the way I like Zelda).From what little I saw of the Twilight Princess (the character) this game could get really trippy and weird. We shall see.

My assessment so far: Wii rocks. I might just be getting one this Christmas, thus breaking my long-honored tradition of never buying a system until it is 10 years old.