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I got Zelda and Call of Duty. Zelda's great, except the over-use of that 'bloom'-style effect is doing my head in slightly. Shiny things are shiiiiny, but when everything is shiny you start to feel sick.

The controls are okayish, although I have a serious problem with the drawing of Link's sword. The fact that you have to make a swing with the Wiimote just to unsheath his sword is annoying in a oh-shi-the-enemy-just-ate-my-head-because-it-took-me-five-mi nutes-and-a-lot-of-arm-swinging-to-get-my-sword-out sort of way.

Plus the fact that it was co-developed for the gamecube shows... the controls feel very nonessential and I can't help thinking that maybe it'd be easier and better to play on a gamecube controller with none of the faffing around with that fairy-pointer thing. The "POINT YOUR WIIMOTE AT THE SCREEN" thing when you go to aim with the slingshot really kills the mood, too.

Call of Duty 3 is fun. Sometimes the controls go 'out of focus' which is REALLY annoying. I've died a lot of times after running through a hail of bullets towards cover, only for the controls to screw up and my character to keep running past the cover, into no-man's land whilst looking straight up at the sky. Other than that I like it... the graphics aren't brilliant, but are good for those generic war game boring-pallet graphics. The storyline is pretty terrible, even worse than Medal of Honour: Frontline (that had scenes from Saving Private Ryan copied down to each individual house. Not joking). I just completed a level that was pretty much identical to the band of brothers episode where the sargent is yelled at to make decisions in the battlefield and hesistates, then dies after putting everyone in danger.

The best bit about it is the aiming- it feels 'floaty', which is refreshing because it's very different from the stuffy, old-fashioned controls of most war games. You can walk in one direction whilst waving your gun about in a free-style direction, blasting away. It actually feels a lot like the FPS-section in the Doom movie, which I hated at the time because it was nothing like the controlling and handling of computer game FPSs.

The other thing I dislike is the way it makes you reach to awkwardly placed buttons for doing quick stuff like grabbing a live grenade or taking your binoculars out. Pressing a switch, getting onto a truck or grabbing a grenade (that's about to go off any second) should be done with A, not the - button.
I also hate the scripted levels, but that seems to be a staple of all generic console world war II games. It really kills replayability, especially after you've died for the 5th time and can predict what's going to happen next with your eyes closed. Looks, sounds and feels great the first time, but the first time only. Protip developers: make your AI awesome so the levels dynamically script themselves. People do it in BYOND all the time... it beggars belief how basic the game design in the industry is. There's so much more interesting stuff done by indie developers whilst the big corporations prefer to go with cash-cows instead of new ideas. Still, that's capitalism for you.
At least Call of Duty feels more like a Wii game than Zelda does. Or maybe I'm just cranky because I feel as though I don't deserve a new game's console ('twas a ;christmas' present from my mum).

The rest of the Wii's features like the photo gallery, Mii and Wii Sports rock. I like them.

Also, is it just me or does Twilight Princess have really frickin' confusing dialogue? I much preferred Ocarina's and Wind Waker's style of dialogue. I'll read what someone says in TP and it'll go straight over my head because they said something like "Seek that of which the howling that spews from the magical wolf stones of light teardrops is trying to find to direct you to the wandering of the dark spirits of those belonging to the spirit of the Dark temple woods cave latern oil".

It's still pretty fun though.