Time magazine have popped together a list of the top 10 video games of 2006, and whilst I would’ve jiggled the order around a bit, (and added in Animal Crossing: Wild World, which recently scored a favourable nod from one of my favourite blogs sites, UK:Resistance), it’s generally a fairly accurate microcosm of the gaming industry last year. What has me scratching my head a little is Time placing Wii Sports at number 1 - whilst I admit it’s a brilliant social game, definitely fun for a good few weeks, I hardly think it was the top of my own personal list. However, Time’s reasoning behind their rather puzzling choice would certainly pop a smile on Shigeru and co’s dials - ‘there is no possible way to say this enough times: great graphics don’t make great games. Perfect Dark Zero looked like a Titian, but it was a snooze. Wii Sports—a mini-sports anthology that includes golf, boxing, tennis, baseball and bowling—looks like Colecovision. The little guys on the screen don’t even have arms!’ Point taken. Fun overrules graphics anyday, in your face 360/PS3! (Or so sez Time Magazine, cowering behind the water tanks at the bottom of the football oval).

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007 at 4:41 pm by Katherine Hannaford
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