Today Nintendo of Europe and Australia added new games to the Wii Shop Channel. The WiiWare games are: Pop Them, Drop Them Samegame and Family Glide Hockey.
GamesRadar writes: "Still, Arc makes a good go of it. There are several control schemes – though none feel quite right – and even the option for mallet movement to be handled automatically, leaving you with little more to do than occasionally flick the remote to bash the puck. Even if you opt for full control, it's a game that's often more about dumb luck than true skill, and after half an hour you'll have doubtless had enough".
All in all, Pop 'Em Drop 'Em SameGame offers a fairly robust and attractive array of options for a WiiWare puzzler. Its price is also right -- at just 500 Wii Points, this is a package that puzzle players should definitely consider as a compliment to the Tetris Party and Dr. Mario Online Rx already in place on their Wii's channel array. It probably won't get as much play as those two, and doesn't offer quite as much nostalgic value even with the similar age of its earliest editions. But for five bucks, you can't really go wrong with it -- it's certainly a game that's too good to just be brushed past and forgotten, like some of those other WiiWare puzzlers from this past year.
Presentation - 8.0
Graphics - 8.0
Sound - 7.0
Gameplay - 7.5
Lasting Appeal - 7.0
Overall -
Nintendo starts off the week with a few new WiiWare and Virtual Console games. The Wii-kly releases have been announced. Watch for them on the Wii Shop today from Nintendo (available beginning 9am PST):
WiiWare Release:
Pop'Em Drop'Em SAMEGAME (Hudson Entertainment, 1-4 players, Rated E for Everyone, 500 Wii Points)
Virtual Console Releases:
Bomberman®'94 (TurboGrafx16, 1-5 players, Rated E for Everyone-Comic Mischief, 700 Wii Points)
DETANA TWIN BEE (TurboGrafx16, 1-2 players, Rated E for Everyone-Mild Cartoon Violence, 700 Wii Points)
