I don’t want to start on a downer but I’ve never been a fan of the Olympic Games; not the Summer or Winter variety. I have a feeling that just as with most sports; it’s probably more fun to actually take part in the Winter Olympics than it is to play them on a console. Having said that I don’t ever see myself getting fit (or interested) enough to train for the next Winter Olympics in 2014 so this will have to be the next best thing.

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Probably just like you my first encounter with Bayonetta was when Sega first started to release promotional pictures of their new gaming heroine. I can’t say I was particularly thrilled; not because I thought Bayonetta was unattractive or anything, but rather I personally don’t find that promotional material designed to tickle the naughty parts of my brain actually does so.

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So what is Planet 51 about? You take control of Lem; a geeky teenage Alien boy interested in Astronomy. To begin with you’re faced with a number of menial duties such as mowing your neighbours back lawn and taking your mother’s car to the garage. To make things worse the local bully is picking on Lem a bit and of course the girl he fancies from school isn’t really interested in such a no hoper. All of that is about to change when Chuck, a human, lands on Lem’s home planet (Planet 51) and causes and almighty ruckus.

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For reference the last tennis game I played most recently was Sega Superstars Tennis for Wii and whilst it was fun it neither managed to recapture the initial fun of Wii Sports Tennis nor the typical Nintendo charm found in Mario Tennis. As much as I like Sonic and his friends they just don’t have the same level of personality as Mario and his pals do but maybe I’m just being a biased Nintendo fanboy. Anyway I digress.

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Real time strategy games have never been my favourite game genre and if I’m honest I’ve only played a handful in the last few years. I tend to prefer more lightweight RTS games such as Pikmin or Mega Lo Mania. I just couldn’t get into Command and Conquer and the many others that were popular on the PC during the late 90’s. Empire Total War comes from the Creative Assembly crew that bought us recent console game Stormrise as well the other more well known Total War games such as Rome and Medieval.

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Stormrise is a futuristic themed real time strategy game for the Xbox 360. Hardened console fans will know that RTS games don’t normally transfer too well to a system which doesn’t have a keyboard or mouse but the clever people from The Creative Assembly (developers of Empire Total War) were quite determined to banish that stereotype and create a fully functional RTS for a console that wasn’t impaired by a joypad being the control mechanism for the game.

The Story for Stormrise is actually pretty good and I could easily see it being adapted for a movie. Basically what has happened is that mankind has got too big for its boots (as usual) and after developing a new energy system and force field to protect the Earth from any effects of global warming things predictably went wrong, huge great Storms appeared and started devastating the planet. Instead of trying to fix it, all of the rich and important people (as well as the military) sealed themselves away underground for years and years hoping wake up from their stasis to world renewed by Mother Nature. Well sadly things didn’t work out that smoothly.

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I suppose it would be silly to deny that the Wii hasn’t had quite the same level of adult orientated games as the Xbox 360 or Playstation 3. I do think however that the criticism of excessive shovelware has been put onto Wii unfairly. I remember a time when people criticized the Nintendo 64 and GameCube for lack of third party support but now its here on Wii they don’t like it. Could this be because most third party games aren’t first person shooters set on a space station?

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