Being the only one of my friends who actually makes the most of his Wii (pun intended), I pre-ordered Mario Kart Wii a month ago. I did this not only because I have owned every single Mario Kart created so far, but also because over the past two years I have developed a ritual with a few soccer buddies of mine where we would play soccer each week in our seasonal league and if the game ended early enough in the evening we would gather at one of our houses and jam a few session of Kart to relax ourselves, which especially worked after any match where we got our asses kicked, because we could then go and kick each others asses at Mario Kart.

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I realize this “review” is late. Part of it is due to laziness, but the other half is wading through the content Super Smash Brothers Brawl offers. The Smash Brothers series isn’t completely foreign to me; I’ve played every single one of them at limited amounts of time. I’ve always given the series respect for being a good party game, but as a fighter not so much. I simply never understood the depth or the intricacies. What makes Brawl so special, though? Is it the copious amounts of Nintendo content? No. I took me awhile to realize it, but like most successful Nintendo games, Super Smash Brothers Brawl is a game with several layers of depth.

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Everyone likes The Simpsons.  The massive popularity of Matt Groening’s franchise is enough to sustain a legitimate constant influx of Simpsons games for the rest of video gaming history.  I played this game on the Wii console, and yes, the motion controls are there, but only for special moves.  There is no IR functionality, so really you won’t miss out on any of the fun as long as you play the game on any system that has an analog stick and some buttons.  I have to admit that even though I do not think The Simpsons Game is anything spectacular, I promised myself I would play it and finish it no matter how bad the game is just because I love The Simpsons.  After watching the trailers for this game, my expectations were definitely higher than they should have been and I knew that.

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