Football has you using the screen to pick defensive plays or-what a surprise!-swipe at the screen to throw the ball and so on and so forth. So for baseball, swiping the screen determines the direction of your pitches, while for tennis, swiping the screen at correctly timed intervals determines your success at returning lobs. Ubisoft Barcelona was given the understandable goal of showing off various applications of the GamePad as a tablet enhanced interface. This is where things start to feel at odds with Wii Sports. So it doesn’t look great, but how does it play?
On the other hand, this means absolute rock solid performance that doesn’t suffer from Unreal Engine glitches or any of the other numerous technical gaffes we’ve come to expect from games with AAA production values.
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It’s pretty obvious that the brunt of Ubisoft Barcelona’s efforts was put into designing around the new controller, not taking advantage of the new processing power the Wii U offers.
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The use of Miis and the now signature low poly, simplified visuals of so many Wii party games are still in full effect here, as is a lacklustre sound presentation. In the now mandatory party mini-game department, Ubisoft Barcelona brings in the ESPN license with a mini-game collection that lets players participate in six sports Baseball, Football, Tennis, Golf, Soccer and Karting.Įven though the Wii U is now firmly in the high definition camp, ESPN Sports Connection still thinks it’s a Wii title. As with the Wii, Ubisoft is now inundating the Wii U with an overdose of games in every genre imaginable, taking the less surgical but more encompassing “throw everything at the wall and see what sticks” approach to capitalism.
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