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Nintendo Wii Media | Family Ski Screens, now with Balance Board

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Namco Bandai have revealed some sweet new screens from their upcoming Ski-ing game, Family Ski, as the whole family gather round to hit the slopes, with added Wii Balance-board support!

According to a recent magazine scan, the first third-party Wii game to use the Wii balance-board will be Namco Bandai's Family Ski.

Thanks to the folks at NeoGAF for the tip.

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We Ski

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Namco Bandai

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Namco Bandai

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Sport

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4

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It looks pretty good, do you know what this means... x4 Balance Board =

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^^ looks like ill have to get a balance-board now i hope other 3rd party start useing game for it too

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looking good as i looked at pics 1-4 and then. oh dear. . .

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Flat trees.... lol

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It supports it, doesn't have to mean you n

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Huh...the courses actually look pretty decent.

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That looked amazing as I went down the screens. Then I got to the characters and OH FOR FUCK SAKE. They look awful.

It's going to be shit and you jolly well know it.
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Well, I guess some people can just stick to playing Amped.

The characters have a Harvest Moon look about them and that isn't a bad thing. Yes, some 'mature' people don't like this kind of look, but for me, cartoon visualisation all the way. Just as I am more likely to get We Love Golf over Tiger Woods every time, so it is with this.

Some people need to get over the fact that every game doesn't have to have a look that they like. After all, it is called "FAMILY SKI". I hope that this is a good start for the Balance Board and even better will follow.

( Edited on 16.11.2007 23:11 by San Diego )

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I love the SD character models and art style!, they are classic of Bandai for many years and one of the reasons why the company has lasted so long. All their baseball games have this style of characters and those games are wicked. I am looking forward to their baseball game, and now this if it turns out to be good.

( Edited on 17.11.2007 16:18 by Linkyshinks )

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GRUMBLEMASTER said:
That looked amazing as I went down the screens. Then I got to the characters and OH FOR FUCK SAKE. They look awful.

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The characters have a 'naff shite' look about them. Even children hate that kind of trash.

It's going to be shit and you jolly well know it.
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That looked amazing as I went down the screens. Then I got to the characters and OH FOR FUCK SAKE. They look awful.

^Ditto

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GRUMBLEMASTER said:
That looked amazing as I went down the screens. Then I got to the characters and OH FOR FUCK SAKE. They look awful.

Must have reached the limit of their tiny budget for a quick cash in...

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hope this is wiiware, otherwise NO one is going to get this.

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Doesn't look too bad to be honest.

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GRUMBLEMASTER said:
That looked amazing as I went down the screens. Then I got to the characters and OH FOR FUCK SAKE. They look awful.
Agreed. From that I'm guessing it's EA. Is it?

Apart from tha characters, it looks really nice. Smilie

EDIT: Ah, Namco Bandai. Why're they pulling a MySims? That's mean. Smilie

( Edited on 19.11.2007 10:38 by SuperLink )

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Environments look pretty amazing, or at least they do from those shots.

But instead of using those cutesy character designs why couldn't they go with the Miis instead.

I mean there using the balance board so...it's aimed at that sort of market ya know. Wasted opportunity.

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maybe they'll include miis and edit it in the game? hey come on guys u prob liked Wii Sports a lot and this looks better (environment wise) i reckon its gonna be awesome
and i think its a bundle with 4 games or something? not too sure...

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The environments look more than good enough for realistic characters. If the players didn't look so kiddy this would have been a perfectly good 1080 stand in until a 1080 game hits Wii Smilie

Really, there should be one. Some Developers' faith in the kiddy side of Wii is pretty annoying.

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