Sunday, March 18, 2007

A Look at the Wii

As I thought there is not really a specific menu for the Base console. It roughly consist of 16 blocks, which fill with applications such as a game, Wii shop, Mii and Wii Online. Systems settings are reach through a setup program. The systems still works on a point a click interface.

Both the nintendo games (Play and Sports) used a similar menu structure but the lay out was different. The other game (Red Steel) had a different menu structure but this would be expected because of the different format (FPS) whereas the two Nintendo games have the same basic format (multiple games). Both the menu systems used the point and click style, but Red Steel also used drag and drop as the selection method.

Vibrations are signaled when the cursor crosses boundaries and also when selections are made.

A limitation I found using the opoint and click is that you have to aim a the TV screen. The movements are restricted to the dimensions of the screen. Especially using the Wiimote to aim, I constantly kept aiming in my field of vision not the tv.

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