The Wii is Here.

[Squeek]

Well, I just beat Red Steel.

Seriously, once I got the controls down, the game was awesome fun. Swordfighting was really awesome, but sometimes it felt like it was excessive. As one poster in another forum put it "Why can't I just shoot him =/" Then again there is that whole honor thing involving swordsmen. Eh.

Gunfights, like I said, felt incredibly like those arcade shooters. You move around hallways and such and come to a big room. Well, you know what's coming, so you find / make cover. They do exactly what they should. They pop out when they think they have a nice shot and take the shot. They don't pop out the same way each time. They move if they're under heavy fire and can get away.

All in all, it was pretty good. Might be useful to know some basic Japanese when playing because they do not translate it.

I would recommend this as a rental, unless you think you can get a lot out of multiplayer. I hear it's amazing, but have yet to try it. The single player took me almost exactly nine hours total.

That makes 2/3 of my beatable games completed. Trauma Center can't be shipped fast enough... and then I have to order Elebits. Then WarioWare. I have a busy January ahead of me.

Then again, Monkey Ball is really, really, really hard. To unlock the last two stages, I have to beat the first eight without using a continue. It's not easy.

Edit: 2,000,000 Wiis have been sold. This is according to http://www.vgcharts.org/ , which I consider much more reliable than http://nexgenwars.com/

Woo! This is a little under a third of all Xbox 360s sold so far and it's only been out for less than a month. Roflroflrofl