The Wii U

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I was underwhelmed by Wii U's showing. I felt like this was their chance to blow the doors off on innovative software, and instead I found it lacking.

But this comment from a CNN article gave me hope. I basically wrote off the Luigi's Mansion mini-game in Nintendo Land after seeing the presentation. But because of that I didn't catch the finer details -- it takes verbal teamwork to play against the ghost player on Wii U Gamepad. CNN is actually a great source for the expected impact a game like this will have, since they are the audience for these kinds of party games.

Biggest surprise
With the announcement of the new Wii U console, Nintendo also revealed 23 games that would be available for the system. One of those titles, "Luigi's Haunted Mansion," turned out to be a lot more fun than I expected from the preview clip.

During a hands-on demonstration, four of my new friends and I took to the mansion to try and defeat a ghost who was sneaking up on us. While the Wii U Game Pad player acted as the ghost, the other four of us had to verbally communicate where we thought the ghost was from vibrations in our Wii controllers.

While the gameplay is simple and the graphics aren't overly done, the excitement generated from the hide-and-seek game was outstanding. By the end, we were all laughing and demanding rematches.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/07/tech/g...tml?hpt=hp_bn5