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Best Wii U launch games to buy, and which ones you should avoid

Gimme Gimme Games outlines the Wii U launch day games you should purchase like New Super Mario Bros U, Black Ops 2, and others.

They also discuss which launch day games you should avoid like Madden 13 and others that look like they will receive price drops shortly after launch.

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Ck1x4244d ago

Yeah that wasn't exactly my preferred list of launch lineup must have games, but to each his own I guess...

Neonridr4244d ago

He left out ZombiU. Also I plan on getting Trine 2 and Little Inferno day one from the eShop as well. Can't ignore the indie developers.

Ck1x4244d ago (Edited 4244d ago )

Trine 2 looks so amazing! I as well want that game... I have a feeling that Nintendo consoles haven't always been very popular in the Indie community, but it seems Nintendo is looking to change all of that with the WiiU

deafdani4244d ago

Well, to be fair, the 3DS already has a pretty solid lineup of good indie games available on the eShop. So, to me at least, it was on the 3DS where Nintendo seriously started courting indie developers. I'm glad they seem to be building and expanding on that on the Wii U.

josephayal4244d ago

Imo black ops 2 is the Best game

stuntman_mike4244d ago

i was taking it seriously until he mentioned that sonic racing was one of the games to get!

Cyb3r4243d ago

He said that Black Ops 2 runs at 720p on the WiiU?? I read an article a few months ago saying that it was in 1080p did I miss something

Neonridr4243d ago (Edited 4243d ago )

No, the native resolution of the game has not been specified. Many people felt that the Wii U version could be run in native 1080p because the graphics card is significantly more powerful than the ones found in the PS3 or 360. Activision came back stating that the game was not natively in 1080p, but will be upconverted from a lower resolution to simulate 1080p just like the 360 and PS3 versions. That was us Nintendo fans getting a little ahead of ourselves I guess. That also comes with the territory when a game is designed for one platform and then brought across to another.

What Activision failed to disclose was would the Wii U version be in a native resolution higher than the 360 and PS3. For instance, Black Ops 1 on the PS3 was rendered at 960x544 which isn't even close to 720p (1280x720). So the game is actually rendered natively in a sub HD resolution and upconverted. I think that is why the game looks so poor compared to Battlefield 3 (rendered at 1280x704). However the reason for lowering the resolution was so that the game could run at 60fps where Battlefield only runs at 30fps.

Here's hoping that the Wii U version will be at least native 720p (1280x720) which will make that version look fairly cleaner and sharper than the PS3 / 360 versions.

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These Call of Duty games are officially dead as servers go offline

Following the Wii U and 3DS servers being taken offline, Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and Ghosts are officially dead.

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Call of Duty players are playing this game for the last time before it's taken offline

Call of Duty players are jumping into Black Ops 2 for the final time before its Wii U servers go offline for good.

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Xbox backwards compatibility sends old Call of Duty games back into the Top Five | UK Monthly Charts

GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 leap up due to summer sales

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shadowT294d ago

Xbox $70 billion bet paid out

fr0sty293d ago

Guess that's what happens when there's no good new games to play...

4Sh0w293d ago (Edited 293d ago )

Well regardless of exclusives, or whatever else there is to play on Xbox or ps, CoD has has still been the top selling game on ps platform since forever also.....so no surprise that the most popular game franchise on any console could easily have a revival due to servers coming back online...this is just credit to xbox backwards compatibility & thats good thing for Xbox gamers.

wiz7191293d ago

@Frosty orrrr maybe it’s a breath of fresh air to be able to go back to the peak of the series .. and it’s beem great lol

mkis007293d ago

It's going to take 10 years for xbox to generate that much profit...

Rhythmattic293d ago

Why worry when they have OS, Server and Background Data in their hands...
Gaming is just the small piece, at the top left in a few K piece jigsaw.

EasilyTheBest293d ago

If you buy a house with cash for 1 million dollars you still own the house. Microsoft don't need to make the money back.

Rhythmattic291d ago

But its not money back, its about how it goes missing.

jznrpg293d ago

Shooters is what Xbox people play most of the time and that’s about it by the numbers and sales of games.

shinoff2183294d ago

Atkeast older gamers nostalgia is good. Jeez.

Jin_Sakai294d ago

Mostly because the new CoD games are garbage. The old games were much better.

Rutaprkl293d ago

Agree 100%. Cod 4, WaW, Black ops 1 & 2, those were the days.

Rhythmattic293d ago

For MP, Unreal tournament , QIII Arena (loved the UT mod) FTW!

RaidenBlack293d ago

Unreal Tournament and Quake III were simply amazing ... CoD's and CoD-likes' rise killed the arena shooter popularity ...
Unreal Tournament 2004 is my favorite in the series.
Didn't enjoy Unreal Tournament III, Quake Champions that much.
Too bad Epic cancelled Unreal Tournament 2014 becoz of Fortnite

Rhythmattic292d ago (Edited 292d ago )

I got hooked on the QIII Urban Terror mod (and my work colleagues I introduced them to)... LAN Sessions at the closing of the doors at work, into the night , sinking beers and eating pizza..... Good times.

thesoftware730293d ago

Wow, good games never get old I guess.

CoD will always be a beast of a franchise, and how awesome is it that you can just boot it up or pop it into your Xbox and play, MS BC is really a neat feature.

CrimsonWing69293d ago

Shows you that backwards compatibility is a worthwhile feature.

1Victor293d ago

@crimson:” Shows you that backwards compatibility is a worthwhile feature.”
I agree it’s worthy at the start of the generation when there’s few new generation games but halfway through the generation it’s not a feature.
Now it’s good that this game is finding a renewed life for its fan but it shows a mayor flaw in new games release when a close decade old game is toppling the charts

CrimsonWing69293d ago

I don't know if I understand what you mean. It's a feature regardless of the time into the generation.

Let's take Armored Core 6 for example. Let's say I'm interested in checking out the previous Armored Core games, sure would be nice if I could play them on my current-gen console.

We're about 3 years into current-gen and old games are hitting in the top 5 for sales charts in the month.

I do get where you're coming from with older games possibly being better than the newer games, but the feature stays the feature. I can only speak for myself, but when there's a lull in game releases or nothing great is out, I like to go back to old titles. It's just nice to not have to have a bunch of consoles out to do so.

I think moving forward it'll be less and less of an issue as like with the PS5 you can access most all of the PS4 games, but I like going back to PS1 and PS2. Would be awesome to kind of make backwards compatibility a prioritized feature moving forward. Hell, Sony was the first to implement it.

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