bigAPE

Boy of 13 ? My top four would be

1. Guitar Hero: World Tour (XBox or Wii)
2. Mario Kart (Wii)
3. Lego Star Wars (Wii) (not Lego Batman, it's crap)
4. Tom Clancy's EndWar (XBox) (If they like strategy games)

I could go on but I'm not sure what type of games you are happy for him to play. Some parents are a little cosseting when they are 13. I would suggest Halo 3 or Call of Duty 5 for the XBox360, but not sure if you allow them to play shooters.

annqldau

Son has managed to trade his shoot em up crap game for Fallout 3 with a mate so he is now habby again. He does like Guitar Hero as well but uses that at mates houses.

sme

Having prior knowledge that Santa is bringing a Wii (the basic set up) to our house, could you more experienced Wii -ers advise as to what extra bits of kit I should suggest to Santa?
Thanks muchly

northernbird

Deffo get them Mario Kart, my girls love it. Santa is bringing High School Musical Sing It and Mario and Sonic Olympics both of which came recommended to me.

bigAPE

I'm not sure if you have seen the content of the game, its possible that you haven't, but I personally wouldn't let me sons play Fallout 3 (mind you they are 8 and 9).

I have been playing the game for a while now, reaching Level 20 some weeks ago and have completed about 80% of the quests. While the game's generic theme is OK there is some quite serious gore and a hell of a lot of (pointless in my view) swearing. I remember one sequence where you had to coerce a prostitute out of some money under the threat of murdering her, she was begging for her life and offering sexual favours in an attempt to gain her life back. Your choice was either to accept her offer, then kill her or let her go, or kill her then accept her offer, or just tell the other guy that you couldn't find her, etc. While I don[t have a problem with my kids playing non-gory shooters (Halo, Resistence, etc) I'm not sure it's material for a youngster.

That said it is an awesome game and is certainly worth the cost unlike a lot of other 10 minute wonder games. You'll get months of play from it.

If he enjoys this I would suggest Oblivion my the same developers (Bethesda). Basically it's the same game set in a Knights and Demons environment, with a lavish country to wonder around and many great quests. Less gore and swearing too.

Al

sme

Should Santa get extra controllers and the like?

northernbird

Yes. We have 2 remotes, 2 nunchucks and 2 wheels. No arguments then.

Wendy

I've just bought a Wii as well. I've just bought an extra controller and a recharge docking station as I was told the batteries in the controller doesn't last all that long.

I too would be interested to know of anything else that would be useful to get now, the last thing I want on Xmas day is fighting

sme

Thanks for that Santa had best stock up !!!!




NB can't send karma - must do a bit of spreading! So publicly I thank you

northernbird

Good idea, as part of the bundle we bought we got a double charging dock and it is great, the kids just put the remotes back when they are done.

northernbird

Santa better get shopping

Ta for the public karma

Wendy

Thanks for that C.

Tapuhi

Santa is bringing our house a Wii for Christmas too. Got a good deal with four games, 2 nunchucks, 2 remotes and the mario wheel.

We took the boys down to PC World to let them play with all the systems and a variety of games. The boys (aged 10 and 12) enjoyed DeBlob and Shaun Whites Snowboarding Roadtrip on the Wii so Santa is also bringing those games.

lilstewie

I really like Zelda on the WII, as well as the latest Ravin Rabbids one - you use the WII fit board and can steer with your bum when snowboarding.

northernbird

Well christ only knows where I will end up if I have to steer with MY arse!