Wii Game of the Month: August 2007
Uh, take a wild guess
With all the videogames that are released each and every month, it can be quite a difficult task to decide which title to spend your hard-earned money on. Granted you could go by our review scores alone and weed through the long list of names to find something that scored high or low, but what if you had somewhere else to turn?
Rather than wait until the end of the year like for our big award blowout, your incredibly masculine friends at IGN.com have decided to employ a monthly tribute to the weeks that were. We're resolved to illustrate to our readers what we thought was the very best game for each system over the past month, and tell you the reason why.
While some of us often chime in with our comments at the end of reviews, for the most part, the reviews on IGN are primarily written by one editor; in this feature we get all of the editors on a particular channel to vote for our Game of the Month. What better way to represent your channel than to speak your mind all at once?
How does it work? Simple. Any game released in the past month is eligible for the award and is taken through a battery of tests by every editor on that particular channel. After we've finished evaluating each game that comes down the pipeline, we put our heads together and decide on a single "best of" winner that's worthy of the title "IGN Game of the Month". Pretty straightforward, don't you think?
Now that we have the guidelines out of the way, let's move on and congratulate this month's winner...
Why We Picked It:
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, the third and final act in Retro Studios' planned trilogy, is in many ways the best of the three, which is an epic accomplishment. This is also Wii's best game, period -- edging out Twilight Princess, for our money. Heroine Samus Aran returns for another go with Space Pirates, Metroids and Dark Samus, but this time you're armed with new Wii remote-enhanced controls, enabling her to look around and target with a greater degree of speed and accuracy than ever before possible on in a console-based first-person experience. Now, you can also interact with objects using Nintendo's innovative controller. Prime 3 not only looks better than any of its predecessors, but it's got voice acting, an achievements system and even a bit of WiiConnect24 support thrown in for good measure. This is a spectacular Wii effort that every system owner must buy.
Runner Up: Madden NFL 08
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