Wii play tanks 1 100 series#

When the game loads this model, it applies a specific color depending on the Mii's favorite color. The Mii body model in the screenshot looks just like how one would see it using a model viewer. Its filename is wanted_sea.tex0, and it's stored in /Common/RPWlyScene/common.carc/wtd_field02.brres It is named block_other_b_test.tex0Īn odd picture of a pink and yellow Mii swimming. Found in /Common/RPDucScene/common.carc/G3D/sht_target_c.brres, named face_dummy.tex0įound in Common/RPTnkScene/common.carc/G3D/tnk_block.brresĪ test texture for blocks in Tanks. Found in /Common/RPBilScene/common.carc/basic_billiards.breft, named dummy_texĪ dummy Mii picture for the Targets. Found in /Common/RPBomScene/common.carc/G3D/bom_panelB_model.brres, named test_tex.tex0Ī dummy texture in Billiards. Found in /Common/RPCommon/common.carc/G3D/logo_model.brresĪ test texture in the files for Pose Mii. This is actually Reggie's Mii face seen at E3 2006 in the Wii Sports Tennis demo.Ī leftover logo from Wii Sports. ball_face1.tex0 and ball_face2.tex0 (found in /Common/RPBilScene/common.carc/G3D/bad_ball_0_face_2.brres) seem to be a much lower-resolution version of it. It is found in /Common/RPBilScene/common.carc. Nintendo Heartcast Episode 029: First or Worst by M.A rather creepy placeholder for the Mii face in the billiards game, named ball_face.bti.Wii's Forgotten Gems: Ōkami by Katharine Byrne.Wii's Forgotten Gems: Rune Factory: Frontier by Bradly Halestorm.Nightly News Roundup: by Katharine Byrne.The Denpa Men: They Came By Wave Review by Andrew Hsieh.Wii's Forgotten Gems: Little King's Story by Luke Brown.Wii's Forgotten Gems: Muramasa: The Demon Blade by Luke Brown.Wii's Forgotten Gems: Endless Ocean: Blue World by Kevin Knezevic.Nightly News Roundup: by Michael Contino.Wii's Forgotten Gems: Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon by Robin Wilde.Wii's Forgotten Gems: Rhythm Heaven Fever by Mel Turnquist.Round Table: Wii's Not-So-Forgotten Gems by Nintendojo Staff.You can also destroy missiles with missiles, though that’s usually a lucky flinch rather than a Jedi trick. You move slowly (and you’ll never get quicker), so it’s the tiny, informed movements that make all the difference. Tanks! is a nervous little game, calling for awareness as much as for precision. If your ally becomes a scrapheap, it’s best to play defensively. On your own you’ve got a few lives to your name, while dying as a duo means game over. Played alone and played with a friend, Tanks! is a different animal.

As of my writing, I’ve only seen it through once). These missions never vary: you’ll learn to never stop moving against the twin green tanks of Mission 5, aspire to go so far as to hear the newly layered music of Mission 12, dread the bouncing hellfire of Mission 17… Faced with these unchanging levels one starts to feel like an arcade-urchin, mastering the ins and outs of each successive level in order to reach the end (there is an end. Things start to get hairy around Mission 5. To this Nintendo added a toy block aesthetic, ricocheting missiles, Wii Remote controls, and color-coded enemies–each with a different MO. Or hoping they get too close to a land mine. You roll around at low speeds, shooting AI tanks before they shoot you.

Wii play tanks 1 100 series#

Tanks! is essentially based on a series of Atari games by the same name (minus the “s” and the exclamation point). Here’s what makes it a Wii experience worth revisiting. You had to unlock each mini-game sequentially, you see, with passable success in one giving you the keys to the next. Yet Nintendo EAD (the developers behind Wii Play) knew to save the best for last. Even its Fishing mini-game was arguably a bigger hoot than some retail games dedicated to the pastime. And it was worth it: Wii Play‘s mini-games have more to offer than Wii Sports‘, including a welcome throwback to Duck Hunt along with a few racket sport games and tests of perception. The nine-game collection was an easy sell (and the fourth most purchased game of the console, in fact) seeing as it usually came bundled with an extra Wii Remote. It’s only a mini-game, after all, included in the certainly-not-forgotten Wii Play.

It might at first seem an odd choice to include Tanks! in Nintendojo’s list of Wii’s Forgotten Gems.