More Wii titles on the way

Razer · 4934 5157 5662 5658 Gender: Joined: 07 Oct 2002

from IGN.com-

Baker's Dozen of Wii Titles Announced

February 27, 2007 - Value Price games publishing and development house, Data Design Interactive, announced today that it is planning on porting a dozen of its upcoming games to the Wii console. Currently, the company is in the process of porting six games to the Wii. These games include Monster Trux Extreme: Offroad Edition, Urban Extreme, Super kart GP, Billy the Wizard, Ninja Bread Man, and Elviz - Rock N Roll Adventures. These games are to be released in the second quarter 2007, with another six games following later in the year.

Data Design Interactive claims it was intrigued by the Wii's controller design, but we're willing to bet that the overwhelmingly positive response the console has received didn't hurt. Most of Data Design Interactive's games cater to the perceived Wii demographic by sporting family friendly, cartoon stylings, although the company does plan on releasing the M-rated title, Earache Extreme Metal Racing, which looks to be some sort of death metal shredfest.

The full list of upcoming Data Design Interactive games is:

* Action Girlz Racing
* Hamster Heroes
* Monster Trux Extreme: Offroad Edition
* Anubis II
* NinjaBread Man
* Myth Makers: Trixie in Toyland
* Mini Desktop Racing
* Billy the Wizard
* London Taxi: Rushour
* Myth Makers Orbs of Doom
* Myth Makers Super Kart GP
* Earache Extreme Metal Racing
* Elviz - Rock N Roll Adventures

I have Hamster Heroes for the PS2 and it's a fairly generic clone of Monkeyball. This company cranks out those types of games. Not to say they're not good or fun but don't expect any triple A titles. Hopefully they'll release at nice prices ($30) and look for high penetration instead of high profit. That might kill them.

Gryph · Pocket Convoy Gender: Joined: 26 Sep 2002

Ninjabread Man!? That sounds awesome!

RivaOni · Full English! Age: 41 Gender: Joined: 24 Sep 2002

London Taxi; Rushour? So what, you just sit in traffic, and use the Wiimote to imitate asmacking your car horn, and wave the nunchuck attatchment to perform "hand signals" at other drivers out of your cab window, while a nagging voic comes out of the speaker in the controller?

kurjohoto the III · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:11 pm Post subject:

Ninjabread man? Must say I'm interested. The main game I'm waiting for is "Cooking Mama: Cook Off." That game is going to be sweet!

Razer · 4934 5157 5662 5658 Gender: Joined: 07 Oct 2002

Well keeping in mind that they mostly do low budget clones here's what I think each game will be:

* Action Girlz Racing
* Hamster Heroes = Super Monkeyball
* Monster Trux Extreme: Offroad Edition = truck racing
* Anubis II
* NinjaBread Man
* Myth Makers: Trixie in Toyland
* Mini Desktop Racing = Micromachines
* Billy the Wizard
* London Taxi: Rushour = Crazy Taxi
* Myth Makers Orbs of Doom
* Myth Makers Super Kart GP = Mario Kart racer
* Earache Extreme Metal Racing = Loud car racer
* Elviz - Rock N Roll Adventures

The rest are probably all just generic platformers, possibly in the Crash bandicoot style. Myth makers seems to be their "license". I don't know if it's their original IP or if it's a series in Europe.

Gryph · Pocket Convoy Gender: Joined: 26 Sep 2002

Metal Racing sounds kind of neat too.

Shurikane · Dim Panties As String Joined: 24 Sep 2002

Low budget clones? That doesn't sound too promising... Sad

Reminds me of those games they package in cereal boxes. Bought some Cheerios in 2002 and there was a Scrabble game included.

It would only run on Windows 98 and older.

RivaOni · Full English! Age: 41 Gender: Joined: 24 Sep 2002

The only thing I can find that mentions Myth Makers is Doctor Who, from 1965...