ONM: "The worst Wii game ever"

Bethesda's futuristic racer, Wheelspin is the "worst Wii game ever", with a score of 11% in Official Nintendo Magazine. That's the lowest rating the mag's ever given to a Wii game, beating previous record holder, Hotel for Dogs, which got a seminal 12%.

[Nihilism]

GOTY

[The Matrix]

"Worst Wii game ever" Wow that's quite an accomplishment considering nearly every game on that system is in contention for it. >.<

[mikeslemonade]

Bethesda is an overated developer and Nintendo is a terrible game company so that's why this game sucks.

[ico92]

wow thats saying alot especially if you look at all the cr@ppy shovelware on that console,

[bjornbear]

wrong and wrong:

they are just both hitting a rough patch. But no WAY is bethesda a bad dev, they just not the most solid ones, but FO3 and Elder Scrolls series would say different.
+ bethesda published it, they didn't develop it. Developer was Awsum Play (wtf? =P)
And don't even start w nintendo.

I'm no Wii fan ( i hate it =P) but Nintendo has been around for longer than we've been alive, they are ancient and they may also be hitting a rough patch now,

but show respect for the ones who brought you the NES, SNES, and Gameboy.

[ChrisW]

Gamefaqs.com first lists Wheelspin as a Snow / Water Racing game, developed by Floating Point and published by Black Legend, which was released in 1995, for the Amiga.

Hmmmm.... Interesting!

[MajestieBeast]

lol i see commercials for this game alot from the local toystore wow they must really wanna get rid of this crappy game fast. Did bethesda turn in to a mediocre publisher?

[Sarcasm]

Crappy games on the Wii, is there anything new?

[Redempteur]

bethesda and good programming in the same sentence = DOES NOT COMPUTE ..

i'm not waiting for anything correctly programmed by them ..

[Quadrix]

I had mild hopes for the game. I should have known better...

[swiftshot93]

The Wii keeps setting standards for FAILS all the time.

[Smacktard]

Uh, I think people developing for the Wii are the ones that keep setting lower standards, not the Wii itself...

[FxckOSX]

wii has only crappy games.

[Shoko]

Yea, like Mario Galaxy, the highest rated exclusive this generation.

And Metroid Prime 3
And MadWorld
And Super Smash Bros Brawl
And Dead Space Extraction
And Monster Hunter 3
And House of the Dead Overkill
And New Super Mario Bros Wii
And Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn
And Boom Blox 1 & 2
And Punch Out!!

[FxckOSX]

ho
poor sales
poor rated

what a excellent games! XD

[Sarcasm]

And Metroid Prime 3 = Cool
And MadWorld = OK
And Super Smash Bros Brawl = Cool
And Dead Space Extraction = OK
And Monster Hunter 3 = Meh
And House of the Dead Overkill = Meh
And New Super Mario Bros Wii = F'in AWESOME. Better than SMG IMO
And Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn = Meh
And Boom Blox 1 & 2 = OK
And Punch Out!! = Fun for awhile but got old

[STONEY4]

And Metroid Prime 3 = good
And MadWorld = awsome
And Super Smash Bros Brawl = ok
And Dead Space Extraction = awsome
And Monster Hunter 3 = ok
And House of the Dead Overkill = good
And New Super Mario Bros Wii = ok
And Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn = meh
And Boom Blox 1 & 2 = ok
And Punch Out!! = meh

And another one I personally like: No More Heroes

[ChickeyCantor]

Whether you guys give the "cool, meh,ok" labels, it still stand those are quality productions.

Shoko is simply pointing out Wii doesn't only contain crap games.
Everyone has his own taste, but you can't twist the quality of a game as a whole.

[Smacktard]

Hmm, not to mention Klonoa remake, de Blob, Geometry Wars: Galaxies, Mercury Meltdown Revolution, Little King's Story, Muramasa, Wario Land: Shake It!, etc., etc.

[Honky Kong]

or save it for MH-Tri! i havent touched any other system or game since i got it!

[SinnedNogara]

It's not Nintendo's fault, it's Bethesda's fault because they didn't at all care what they published for the Wii and ended up publishing Awesome Game's Wheelspin.

@ FxckOSX

Yeah, so Super Mario Galaxy sold poorly and got bad scores. You can like the game or hate it as much as you want, but you can't deny these scores.

Some third-party games are great too. The Conduit and No More Heroes for example.

I'm suprised that Wheelspin isn't a DDI game. I fear that there will be two DDI's in the world, DDI and Awesome Games.

[hikayu17]

im sure in that crap load of shovelwares , there gotta be a worse game than that .it's just the worst game ONM have ever reviewed . right ?
btw , why 11/100 ? if it has absolutely no point of it being a game ( that's playable ) , why giving a bit of score ? wouldnt it make sense to just give it : stay the hell away or 1/100 because it's not even a game , just a bunch of weird codes on a disk ? i kinda not getting the scoring scale of reviewers these day . just sayin ...

[House MD]

Bethesda didn't develop the game, Awesome Play did and Bethesda are publishing, so though the game is dire, Bethesda can't be accused of bad development skills, but merely of bad choice in publishing material.

[Jamescagney]

I see the wii-hating bandwagon are out in force again spewing their usual drivel.

Keep up the good fight, you guys are so cool.

[baum]

You could have not said anything as we all know you're a Wii apologist. In fact, you didn't really say anything other than "spewing the usual drivel", so how about practicing what you preach, Sally?

[Jamescagney]

A Wii apologist? Not really, I am a gamer though. I enjoy playing games on all the systems I own and play games on the Wii as much, if not more, than on my ps3.

It's always the same people that come into Wii articles and slag it off for saying it hasn't got any games worth playing when it's blatantly untrue. You may not like the games or think they aren't very good but that's just your opinion. And fair enough everyone's entitled to an opinion. But let's take a look at some of the opinions here...

'Bethesda is an overrated developer and Nintendo is a terrible game company so that's why this game sucks. '

'The Wii keeps setting standards for FAILS all the time.'

'wii has only crappy games. '

Hmm, don't they look like valid and well thought out opinions? I've spent hours upon hours playing games on the Wii with these games:

SMG,Metroid 3,NSMB,Muramasa,Zelda,A Boy and his Blob,De Blob,Mario Kart,MadWorld,Boom Blox,Wario Land,Battalion Wars 2,Dead Space Extraction and Endless Ocean.

There's some others I want to pick up but I either haven't had the money or I've picked something up for my ps3 or pc, but I will get them eventually.

I'm not an apologist at all, but it makes me laugh when you see all the people who hate on the wii and come out with a load of nonsense that it has no decent games which just isn't true. If it was true I might actually agree with the bashing, but it's not, so I don't.

[BootHammer]

Its ironic how the Wii is kicking everyone's butt in sales but their game selection is just pathetic. And yeah I know Mario Galaxy is the best selling game ever but if it wasn't for a few first party titles (Zelda,Mario and Metroid) I wouldn't even own a single game for this system. And I've had it since launch day, yet I only own 4 games for it...that's just sad.
I hope Nintendo doesn't sell out on their future console like they did this generation. In the meantime there is a luckily a plethora of exclusive games on the PS3 and some good ones on the 360 next year as well... so I guess my Wii will remain a paperweight for a quite a while.

[Smacktard]

Just because you're blind to the fact that the Wii has good 3rd party games doesn't mean it doesn't. See the list provided earlier in this comment section.

[Mista T]

the wii doesn't have any games that interest me at all except the new super mario

[N4g_null]

Wow sin and punishment got a perfect 10 lol I guess you guys missed that and the red steel 2 stuff. Then you all just ignore crystal bearers are the fact that dyn slash is coming. On top of this tvscapcom is coming soon also.

At least one of the trolls knows nsmbwii rocks!
Yet you all show up here. Sad.... Some of you guys can not even be considered gamers let along hardcore.

[BootHammer]

Blind to the fact of 3rd party goodness?? Are you serious? You mention these titles: Klonoa remake, de Blob, Geometry Wars: Galaxies, Mercury Meltdown Revolution, Little King's Story, Muramasa, Wario Land: Shake It!....no wonder I haven't bought any games lately for the Wii, ha!
Sorry man but you must be a little kid or something and that's exactly what 99% of the Nintendo Library is made for now. That is the strategy Wii has went for and they executed it with perfection..I will give them that.

The only game I see there that would even tempt a core gamer is Muramasa and even that one only merits a rental.

[Gr81]

Even though the majority of Wii's third party efforts have been so mediocore, its still the Wii's fault that these piss poor games don't sell! Isn't that just hilarious? Don't blame the games blame the system!

[Enigma_2099]

.. direct ALL outrage to the developers... not Nintendo.