Top 10 cool Nintendo Wii games

Some of the coolest Nintendo Wii games are already on Nintendo’s newly launched WiiWare platform. WiiWare is an online portal that delivers independent, experimental , and downloadable games and applications for the Wii game console. The games are not for free but costing just a few Wii Points, some of them may be worth playing.

Here’s a list of 10 Cool Nintendo Wii Games, according to Forbes Magazine.

1. LostWinds

Developer: Frontier Developments
Release: May 2008

WiiWare convinced Frontier Developments to do something a bit different. The developer, known for titles like “RollerCoaster Tycoon” and “Thrillville,” hosts a weekly meeting for employees to bat around game concepts. One chap suggested using wind as a central gameplay element, and “LostWinds” was born. Unlike most character-driven titles, movement in “LostWinds” is limited to the left or right direction. In order to defeat enemies, complete puzzles or leap up to high ledges, you’ll have to use gusts of wind that you’ll direct with the Wiimote.

2. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King

Developer: Square Enix
Release: May 2008

Square Enix figures you want to live the life of royalty. Unfortunately, there are a lot of chores that come with owning a kingdom. In “My Life as a King,” you play a child ruler who must construct a kingdom in the midst of a desert. It’s more simulation (think “Sim City”) than the action role-playing game that shares its namesake. You’ll have to both manage troops, who are sent off on foraging missions, and build up your ramparts and town center.

3. Critter Round-Up

Developer: Epicenter Studios
Release: TBA

No one wants to see alligators dine on penguins–that’s why you have to speedily corral various genera into their own pens. Aptly titled “Animal Panic” in Japan, “Critter Round-Up” requires you to build fences as quickly as possible while avoiding various forms of death–both yours and your animal charges.

4. Defend Your Castle

Developer: XGen Studios
Release: May 2008

This Flash-built browser game, remade for the Wii, is all about protecting your precious castle from a horde of barbarians. This usually means grabbing hold of them with an omnipotent hand (controlled by the Wiimote) and flinging them skyward. If that doesn’t work, you can always set archers and demolition men upon them.

5. World of Goo

Developer: 2D Boy
Release: Summer

Made by a team of two ex-Electronic Arts developers, “World of Goo” is a quirky physics-based puzzler. Globs of goo try to make their way to the Goo Factory where–unknown to them–they’ll be harvested into commercial goods. To help them spread their wings, you’ll have to construct goo structures that bridge all sorts of environmental tomfoolery.

6. Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People

Developer: Telltale Games
Release: June 2008

Based on a cult Web cartoon “Homestar Runner,” “Strong Bad” is Telltale’s newest series of episodic games released sequentially, like television shows. Like most adventure games, “Strong Bad” requires a lot of scavenger hunting for eclectic items that you combine in amusing ways to accomplish each episode’s objectives. But this game is mostly about interacting with the cast of “Homestar Runner.”

7. Dr. Mario Wii RX

Developer: Nintendo
Release: May 2008 CK

Oh, “Dr. Mario.” This is Nintendo’s riff on the classic game “Tetris,” only Mario’s busy stacking pills vertically rather than laying horizontal bricks. He’s up to his usual medical bag of pill-matching tricks in this WiiWare re-make–only now he’s got online play, as well as a new mode that has players grabbing and directing pills with the Wiimote.

8. Pop

Developer: Nnooo
Release: May 2008

This gives the same pleasure as stomping on bubble wrap. Okay, it’s a bit more complicated than that–there’s score-multiplying same-colored-bubble-chain popping and a bevy of power-ups to beef up your points.

9. Major League Eating: The Game

Developer: Mastiff
Release: TBA

Perhaps the first officially licensed game to hit WiiWare, “Major League Eating” simulates the art of stuffing hundreds of hot dogs into your gullet. Flick various consumables into your mouth with the Wiimote and mash on a button to chew, but watch out for choking, vomiting and teeth grinding. Oh, and you can also exude various bodily gases to distract your opponent (both in the game and in real life).

10. Star Soldier R

Developer: Hudson Soft
Release: TBA

A 3D update of Hudson’s classic “Star Soldier” franchise, this WiiWare title brings a little arcade shooter action (think a seizure-inducing version of “Space Invaders”) to the Wii. The basics: Destroy everything in your path before it destroys you.

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